Medical Laboratory Assistant

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Health and Public Safety
Health Information Management
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We facilitate turning health information into.
Career Overview

• Health data
• Knowledge
• Wisdom
• Informed health care decisions

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Career Overview Traits and Skills

• Extensive medical knowledge
• Excellent English grammar and composition skills
• Require minimum supervision
• Detail oriented
• Dedicated
• Possess common sense
• Skilled typist

• Manages time well
• Organized
• Logical and deductive reasoning skills
• Good memory
• Good auditory acuity
• Good hand-eye coordination
• Computer
• skills

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How are health care decisions made?

• Through review and analysis of the
• use
• management, and
• delivery of health services
• Initiatives are developed and implemented towards
  improving
• accessibility,
• effectiveness and/or appropriateness of health
  service delivery

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Career Overview

• Role of Health Information Management
  Professionals
• Collect and translate critical medical
  information from the patients health record into
  a format that can be easily tabulated,
  aggregated, and sorted for statistical analysis
• Release patient information following legislated
  standards
• Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of
  personal health information
• Analyze and present data

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How is information from the health record used?

• Patient care
• Medical research
• Education
• Legal use
• Management of resources
• Peer review and assessment of
• standards and patterns of practice
• Establish benchmarks

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How do we get a handle on all this information?

• By grouping and classifying it according to a set
  of pre-established criteria
• Into numerical information suitable for
  processing by a computer
• Utilizing an internationally recognized
  classification system developed by the World
  Health Organization

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Stored in a national database

• Data from over 78 of all acute care discharges
  are reported
• from more than 650 Canadian hospitals
• There are over 2.5 million acute care discharges
  and 1.6 million ambulatory surgery episodes added
  to the database annually.

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Career Overview

• Growth potential
• Information Systems Programs
• Health Information Management Diploma
• Health Information Management Degree
• Bachelor of Applied Info Systems Degree

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Why SAIT?

• State-of-the-art facilities
• Student residence
• Centers of technology and innovation
• Universal transit pass
• Campus center
• Counseling services
• Health services
• Learning Skills Center

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Program Overview

• 64 weeks (2 years) of classroom instruction lab
  sessions
• 6 week practicum at the end of year 1 (rural
  hospital)
• 8 week practicum at the end of year 2 (urban
  hospital)
• Courses
• Core
• Data Classification
• Health Record Science
• Pathophysiology
• Health Information Law
• Advanced Computer Applications
• Advanced Medical Terminology
• Analysis and Presentation

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Admission to this program

• Questions on Admission requirements, process and
  procedures?
• Refer to the program information sheet for this
  program!

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Admission Requirements

• Alberta High School diploma (or equivalent)
• English 30 or 33
• 60 Average
• Biology 30
• Math 30/31 or Pure Math 50 Average
• English Language Proficiency requirements

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Selection Criteria

• Applicants will be invited to be interviewed.
  Students will be selected on the interview,
  career investigation and references.
• Enrollment is limited, only 16 students

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Practicum Requirements

• The following must be completed before practicum
• Updated immunization status
• Security clearance

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Credentials

• SAIT Diploma in Health Information Management.
• Eligibility to challenge the National Exam and
  gain certification with the Canadian Health
  Information Management Association (CHIMA).

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Careers after this program

• Employment
• Hospitals
• Medical clinics
• Private offices
• Specialized health care facilities
• Government facilities

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For more information

• Refer to the SAIT Career and Program Guide
• Visit our booth in the lobby tonight!
• Visit www.sait.ca
• E-mail hps.info_at_sait.ca
• Call 403-284-8500
• SAIT OPEN HOUSE Feb. 1 2, 2008