Role Alternatives of Health Information Managers
(please excuse spelling and grammar errors - author is visually impaired)
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Role Possibilities of a Health Information Manager presents a lengthy list requiring active hands-on experience and observations. A Health Information Manager (HIM), with a particular interest in teaching methods of quality control or other subjects, can reach out to the educational programs that promotes skills of a chosen parameter. The scope and range of topics are significant. The HIM can provide learning experiences in the course of a private business (i.e. consultant) or that of an individual employed in a cooperate setting, example, namely Continued Education and oh so much more !!.
Health Information Managers can work in a Partnership with a commonality of a factual nature:
- Partnering with an Actuarist. The presentation of essential information from a Health Information Manager is a required tool for estimating life experiences, longevity and predictions,
- an Epidemiologist Partnership: example: When a team steps forward to identify the causative factors of a group-experienced illness. Such is not uncommon when groups experience gastrointestinal symptoms and much more In my personal experience, a disease indices became the source and key to a contaminant well established in a local water supply at a day-care facility.
- Veteran Affairs Canada have been known to seek the assistance of an HIM in keeping with their commitment to supported independent living. Gathering valued information by a team of HIM's become key players to putting such a program in place.
A Health Information Manager, working as a private consultant, has many hats and are worthy of inclusion of a fee schedule for services. Service examples follow:
- an HIM in the role of a team player in a private medical clinic....a situation that would fit within the boundaries of the clinic's mandate. Clinic policies and procedures would require frequent review, auditing and recommendations for appropriate change,
- a proposal writer to support the necessity of new and/or sophisticated equipment,
- a part time organizer and manager of wellness-retreat weekends - incl. yoga, dance, music therapy, art therapy, massage are a sampling of services and experiences included in a well-established agenda. A HIM would have the insight to the boundaries of stresses and anxieties in the health care workplace.
- the proprietorship of a medical transcription service. Health care facilities welcome the opportunity to referring this task to private service providers. This has been found to be cost efficient (caution to owners - putting confidentiality on the top of their needs, policies and mandate) is a must. This topic would require an appropriate contract,
- the creation of a life plan is well within the boundaries of an HIM. Should a Client wish to maintain a supported independent living....a lifestyle that is efficiently, achievable and valued can come together with the professional guidance and navigation efforts of an HIM,
- the services of providing assistance to an individual/Client who wishes to create an Advanced Health Care Directive in combination with a Living Will is increasing in demand,
- providing the skills in data retrieval is in demand and its continuance will increase as the baby-boomer population ages in their Senior years,
- providing the numbers that are required to forecast our health needs for the future is a study well within the capabilities of an HIM,
- motivational speaking on a great number of topics calls attention to the insight of an HIM - topics ranging from the electronic medical record to Educational requirements often demands the input of a Health Information Manager
- supporting an individual who wishes to be an altruistic kidney donor. A thorough health and medical report is essential and the ability of a HIM to locate data through scanning previous health charts and utilizing disease indices is required,
- providing assistance to those who are establishing a "flag" system of populations of patients ie. deaf, those with an abnormal bleeding condition, a history of seizure activity etc. presents a challenge to an HIM consultant,
- participating on a team of medical professionals who are working together, in a 3rd world country situation. Their purpose is often to gather information with respect to a particular disease and developing realistic healing techniques,
- participation as a medical / health record system administration in a Federal and or Provincial correction institution is often a need,
- managing reports and statistics of sport injuries, in a regional sense, as well as providing individual medical status of athletes is an employment opportunity.
In closing - I encourage devoted Health Information Managers to go beyond the doors of an acute care facility.
..... Nightingale
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