Health Information Managers plan, develop, implement and manage health information services, such as patient information systems, and clinical and administrative data, to meet the medical, legal, ethical and administrative requirements of health care delivery.
Occupation description
Health Information Managers plan, develop, implement and manage health information services, such as patient information systems, and clinical and administrative data, to meet the medical, legal, ethical and administrative requirements of health care delivery.
Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Clinical Trial Data Manager
- Health Data Administrator
Occupations not considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Records Manager
- Clinical Coder
These occupations are classified elsewhere in ANZSCO.
Health Information Manager is a VETASSESS Group B occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher.
Applicants can fulfil the assessment criteria for this occupation in four different ways.
*If employment is prior to the completion of the qualification at the required level, an applicant must have at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level within the last five years. The remaining five years of pre-qualifying period may be within the last ten years.
A positive assessment of both qualification level and employment duration is required for a positive Skills Assessment outcome.
* Additional qualifications in a highly relevant field of study include those comparable to the following levels:
- AQF Diploma
- AQF Advanced Diploma
- AQF Associate Degree or AQF Graduate Diploma
*** Bachelor degree or higher degree includes:
- AQF Master Degree or
- AQF Doctoral Degree
** Highly relevant paid employment duration (20 hours or more per week)
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minimum years of employment highly relevant to the nominated occupation, completed at an appropriate skill level in the five years before the date of application for a Skills Assessment.
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minimum 4 years of relevant employment required – Three years of relevant employment (can be outside the last 5-year period) in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years before applying.
Qualification and Employment Criteria
AQF Bachelor degree or higher degree*
This occupation requires a qualification in Health Information Management or Medical Records Management.
Other major fields of study will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. The required competencies are in the Management of Health Data and Records including Structure in both Manual and Electronic Formats, Data Collection, Content, Identification Systems, Retention, Storage and Retrieval, Healthcare Record Functions, Standards and Regulations for Documentation and Legal Aspects of Managing Health Information.
*This includes qualifications assessed at AQF Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level.
Employment
Highly relevant tasks include:
- Designing and revising medical record forms;
- Maintaining computerized and other record management systems and record forms, and advising on their usage;
- Controlling access to confidential information, and recommending codes of practice and procedures for accessing records;
- Developing record cataloguing, coding and classification systems, and monitoring their use.
*If employment is prior to the completion of the qualification at the required level, an applicant must have at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level within the last five years. The remaining five years of pre-qualifying period may be within the last ten years.
Employment information
Health Information Managers usually work in hospitals, medical research centers, government health departments, cancer registries and professional bodies. They are required to have knowledge of, and skills in, healthcare processes, health records and administration and information management. This includes knowledge of the technology used in this occupation. Human resource management is also required in some managerial positions.
Administrative Staff or Receptionist roles in a medical or allied health practice, which only requires the use of a patients’ registry/management system, cannot be considered for this occupation.
Supporting material for assessment
If you are nominating this occupation, you must submit an organisational chart. An organisational chart should include the company letterhead, your job position and those of your superiors and subordinates as well as all positions reporting to your immediate supervisor and to your direct subordinates. If you are unable to obtain an organisational chart from your employer, please provide a statutory declaration outlining the required information and the reasons why this information cannot be provided.
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