Program Learning Outcomes

The Rutgers School of Health Professions requires that students achieve professional competencies, professionalism, communication, collaboration, ethics and jurisprudence, education, scholarship, problem solving, information management, and safety. Professional competencies for master of science in health information management (MSHIM) students include the following domains:

• Data content, structure, and standards; information governance
• Information protection: access, disclosure, archival, privacy, and security
• Informatics, analytics, and data use
• Revenue management
• Leadership

 Upon completion of the program, the graduates will be able to:

1.      Analyze data management practices and recommend strategies for effective and efficient management of health information.

2.      Recommend privacy and security strategies for health information.

3.      Manage data within database systems and support system integration for greater use of health data.

4.      Interpret terminologies and classification systems and construct examples of data mapping.

5.      Analyze health information systems, implement new systems, and identify opportunities for system optimization.

6.      Perform data analysis and present data visually to support health care operations.

7.      Manage components of the revenue cycle and recommend financial management processes.

8.      Recommend strategies for detecting and preventing health care fraud.

9.      Evaluate performance improvement and risk management activities, and develop strategies for compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

10.   Assess health data utilization to improve population health and public health.

11.   Recommend strategies that promote positive organizational change and embrace diversity.

12.   Determine workforce needs and workforce training needs.

13.   Lead and engage key stakeholders in health informatics and information governance initiatives and projects.

14.   Assess consumer engagement with their health information.

15.   Evaluate the impact of policy in health care.

16.  Leverage health data to support research activities in health care.