Welcome & Program Overview
Thank you for your interest in the Health Information Management Program offered at Broward College (BC). All HIM classes are taught at the BC’s North Campus with most classes offered either in the evening or online with the exception of our Professional Practice Experience courses. These two courses are conducted in the healthcare facilities in the community during the daytime hours when the student has the greatest number of learning resources and opportunities available.
The Health Information Technology Program is designed to accommodate the students who wish to pursue their studies on a full- or a part-time basis. We strive to meet the needs of the student, to foster self-confidence, and to provide a supportive, student-centered learning environment.
We offer:
- Articulation for ATD graduates from Atlantic and Sheridan Technical Centers
- Two Professional Practice Experiences where the student has real-time work exposure in local healthcare facilities
- Associate in Science Degree in Health Information Management at completion of the 67 credit program.
- Graduates are eligible to take the RHIT certification examination administered by the American Health Information Management Association. Passing the examination entitles a person to use the initials RHIT (Registered Health Information Technician) after his/her name
- Prepared for the entry-level Certified Coding Associate (CCA) Exam with AHIMA.
Program Overview
Quality information is critical to quality of care by physicians, nurses and other health professionals. Health information management combines a profession in health care with information technology.
Health Information Technology (HIT) graduates perform a variety of technical health information management functions including:
- Organizing, analyzing, and technically evaluating health information;
- Compiling administrative and health statistics; and
- Coding diseases, operations, and other procedures.
Responsibilities also include:
- Maintaining and using a variety of:
- Health information indices, special registries,
- Storage and retrieval systems,
- Inputting and retrieving computerized health data, and
- Controlling the release of health information.
- The majority of health information practitioners work in:
- Acute care hospitals, ambulatory, long-term, and mental health facilities, state and federal agencies, insurance companies, and colleges.
- Some are self-employed in businesses such as transcription services, billing services and consulting.
- Employment opportunities are extensive in both traditional and non traditional health care settings.
AHIMA requires each HIM Associate Degree Program to meet required entry-level competencies. These are referred to as Domains, Sub domains and Tasks. These areas are the basis for the national credentialing examination and represent the basic knowledge the student should have at graduation. You may link to AHIMA to see the core knowledge base by clicking this web site:
Domains, Sub domains and Tasks: You Entry-Level Competency Standards .
Mission Statement
The College's mission is reflected in the program's mission statement.
The mission of the Health Information Management Program is to prepare competent, ethical and culturally sensitive entry-level Health Information Management Technicians who are capable of functioning in ever-changing health care delivery, health informatics and information management systems as a result of being dedicated to lifelong self-directed learning. The program exists to provide a technical education program to all segments of the community that is committed to quality instruction delivered by dedicated faculty engaged in continued professional development.
The program is committed to accomplishing its mission through the use of effective and diverse instructional methods that encompass traditional as well as technology-based strategies (e-learning including online courses, podcasting, virtual labs, video conferencing, etc.).
Charlee Bumgardner, BA, RHIT
HIM Program Manager
North Campus, Room 118, (954) 201 – 2084
