Our Health Information Management program in Sonoma County can help you begin a new career! 

As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, employment opportunities for medical professionals continue to rise. With Empire College’s Health Information Management (HIM) degree program, you can address these growing healthcare needs by ensuring that patient care and the day-to-day practices of a healthcare facility function efficiently and run smoothly.

Our Santa Rosa Health Information Management degree program is one of the concentration choices within the Specialized Associate Degree – Medical Assistant program, along with Phlebotomy and Clinical Medical Assistant. Health information management professionals are responsible for keeping accurate medical records and ensuring that patients are provided with the utmost quality of care.

Objective: This health informatics program is designed to help you gain the critical skills to properly handle both clinical and administrative tasks in a variety of healthcare settings. We also incorporate expanded focus on current medical issues, such as laws, ethics and transcription, to give you a comprehensive understanding of the medical industry as a whole.

Further duties of a health information management professional include managing and modifying patient records with pertinent information regarding diagnoses, electronic records management, medical histories, symptoms, treatment outcomes, and various types of medical coding.

Upon graduation from our health informatics program in Santa Rosa, you should be prepared to sit for the Certified Professional Coder, Apprentice Status (CPC-A) or Certified Coding Associate (CCA) exam and the California Certified Medical Assistant or Registered Medical Assistant exam to become a certified medical assistant.

Program Length: 7 quarters
Specialized (Occupational) Associate Degree awarded upon successful completion of all health information management program graduation requirements.

This health information technology program includes the following courses:

• Records Management
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Beginning Medical Transcription
• Medical Terminology
• Health Information Management
• Injections and Surgical Assisting
• EKGs and Capillary Puncture
• Phlebotomy and Urinalysis
• Medical Office Procedures
• Medical Insurance Coding
• Ethics in Technology and Society
• Principles of Pharmacology
• Bookkeeping
• Various Computer, Internet and Microsoft courses
• Management Communications
• And many more comprehensive courses!

Become a vital member of an exciting, in-demand healthcare team with our Santa Rosa Health Information Management degree!

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"Bilingual skills, combined with the clinical training I received from Empire, are real assets in the medical field."
- Marbella Sanchez, Medical Assistant

Resources

• Career Information – Health Information Management