Health Information Management Technician
3
Years
LICENSE
Yes
Certificate
professional diploma
SCHEDULE
Full time
English
Language
Overview
The course is designed to develop your practical knowledge and hands-on experience in acquiring, organizing, storing, retrieving, analyzing, and disseminating vital health data and information in a health care delivery system, while ensuring accuracy, privacy and security.
With widespread computerization of health records, the knowledge of ICT forms an integral part of this course.
Career opportunities
Employment opportunities exist in both public and private sectors for you as a health information technician.
- In the public sphere, graduates will find work in: • Tertiary health institutions (Teaching Hospitals, Federal Medical Centers, Specialist Hospitals), • Secondary health institutions (State General Hospital, State Specialist Hospital) • Primary Health Care Centers • Health research institute
- Secondary health institutions (State General Hospital, State Specialist Hospital)
- Other work environments include pharmaceutical, health insurance scheme, health information marketing, among other settings
Who is the course for?
If you love to be in an analytical environment – this is the course for you.
COURSE PROFILE
Entry requirement:
Five (5) ‘O’ level credit passes in either:
1. Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE)
2. National Examination Commission (NECO)
3. General Certificate of Education (GCE)
Candidates wishing to undergo this course must possess credits in English, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, at not more than two (2) sittings.
- Case study
- Discussion board participation
- Tutor-marked assignment (TMA)
- Supervised field practical report
- Oral presentation
- Individual project
- Examination
- Professional diploma
- Practice license by the Health Records Officers’ Registration Board of Nigeria (HRORBN)..
However, if you need more information we would be happy to talk to you. WhatsApp/call 09057119611.
A health information technician graduate can proceed to do a HND (Higher national diploma) programme in a designated college of health technology.
A Post-HND admission, via direct entry to the university to become a Health Information Manager also occurs.
A health information technician is eligible for the UK health and care worker visa