Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management

This programme combines Science, Business, and Information Technology to ensure that students who undertake it come out furnished with the necessary skills they will need to work in middle to senior management grades in clinical and hospital settings or physicians’ offices as Health Data & Information Managers, Bio Statisticians, Medical Informaticians, Data Quality Managers, Researchers, and Public Health Information Managers or Officers.

Admissions Criteria

BGCSE/equivalent with 5 Passes including English, Mathematics and Biology/Double Sciences.

Graduates of this programme can:

Build effective systems to collect, generate, organise, collate, analyse, interpret and disseminate health related data
Organise and present health related information for policy, planning and for operations management of the health sector
Design data collection tools/instruments
Conduct special studies/evaluations on health information areas
Develop protocols/guidelines for health information management
Develop and manage a health informatics infrastructure
Develop and administer medical databases
Ensure privacy and ethical practices when managing patient data
Carry out medical transcription
Carry out coding of diseases and drugs using ICD 10 or later standards

Career Prospects

Health Data & Information Management Officer/Managers
Medical Informatician
Data Quality Manager & Researcher
Public Health Information Managers/Officers
Inpatient and Outpatient HIM Coder & Coding Educator
Director – Coding Operations Hospital
HIM Analyst/Coder
HIM Programme Director
Medical Coding Manager
HIM Consultant
HIM Practice Leader Operations
Health Information Services Manager
Insurance Manager
Hospital Administrator

Skills Developed

Computer skills
Professional writing
Presentation skills
Data collection and analysis skills
Problem-solving skills
Creative, critical, logical and analytical thinking skills
Team building and management skills