News Release

College of Health Professions offers Health Information Management program

Beginning this term, the University of Detroit Mercy College of Health Professions now offers a unique new degree program, a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management.

UDM’s College of Health Professions and Computer and Information Systems department in the College of Liberal Arts & Education have collaborated to create the new degree. HIM students will learn health care data, health services organization and delivery, healthcare statistics and applied health informatics. They will also have access to the Cerner AES electronic health record system, which is used in health care facilities, to provide hands-on experience for students.

To ensure a one-of-a-kind, quality degree program, the colleges worked closely, developing the program in conjunction with American Health Information Management Association guidelines.

Graduates of the Health Information Management program can work in hospitals, consulting firms, colleges and universities, rehabilitation centers and many other sites. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated careers for HIM professionals to grow at an extremely faster pace than many other job areas.

Assistant Professor Julia Stocker-Schneider, one of the program’s creators, says, “Currently, most HIM roles are being filled by people who have the IT skills but not necessarily the health care knowledge…so there really is an unmet need for specialists who have knowledge in IT and can apply it to health care.”

For more information, contact the College of Health Professions at 313-993-1208 or visit http://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu.

Release date: January 12, 2011

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