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Impact of Health Information Management (HIM) on Doctors, Nurses, and Patients.

Health information management (HIM) deals with acquiring, evaluating, and

safeguarding digital and traditional medical data used in offering quality health services.

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) was established for

stipulating and supervising the certification of Registered Health Information Administration

(RHIA) and coaching of Registered Health Information Technicians (RHIT). This association

passed several laws to brace patients’ rights and operations involving HIM. Health Information

Management is essential for ensuring patients’ information privacy and security according to

government requirements on handling customers’ appeal for Personal Health Information (PHI).

In every health organization setup, the Health Information Management unit is a very

vital organ because it provides doctors with the relevant digital health records and history about a

patient. This helps the doctors administer the required most suitable treatment plans to each

patient. It also helps the doctors evaluate and monitor the patients’ progress due to the ready

availability of well-synthesized and simplified data presented to them by the HIM unit. Doctors

find it easier to direct nurses on the treatment plans directed to individual patients by recording
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everything on the digital records, which are accessible to any other health official who might be

handling that particular patient. This avoids confusion and ensures that the patient’s treatment

and medication are done correctly as indicated on the records regardless of who is handling the

patient.

Nurses being another vital group of health officials have benefited very much from health

information management because it enables them to access doctors’ prescriptions to the patients.

These well-documented patients’ health history and information are very vital to the nurses’

guidance on how to take good care of the patients. Every individual patient requires special

attention and without a well-stipulated guideline, nurses would find it hard to give every patient

the right handling and care.

Health Information Management is very vital to patients because it ensures that their

health information and data are kept secure and private. After all, only the relevant health

officials dealing with them can access the information as required by the government regulations

on Personal Health Information. This gives the patient trust and peace of mind knowing that their

health information is secure. Health Information Management also helps patients with the

accessibility of their health records, which are well recorded and stored making it easier for the

patients to seek the relevant treatment and monitor their health progress.

In conclusion, Health Information Management is very important in delivering health

services like treatment and medication. It helps in ensuring the security of patients’ information

and enables the quality delivery of health services to every individual patient. This makes

running a healthcare facility smooth for both the healthcare officials and the patients.
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References

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Jan. 1970, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9579/.

Western Governors University. “What Is Health Information Management?” Western Governors

University, Western Governors University, 9 Oct. 2020, https://www.wgu.edu/blog/what-health-

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Zeng, Xiaoming, et al. “Redefining the Roles of Health Information Management Professionals in Health

Information Technology.” Perspectives in Health Information Management, American Health

Information Management Association, 16 Sept. 2009,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781729/.
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