Earn Your Bachelor’s Degree in Patient Information Management at Plaza College!
Plaza College’s Bachelor of Business Administration program, with a concentration in Patient Information Management, will offer you the skills to further develop both your administrative and clinical knowledge in the allied health field. Whether this is an extension of your associate degree in Medical Assisting or Health Services Information Technology, it is the next step in providing additional opportunities for advancement in health care administrative or clinical positions!
Through an individualized curriculum, this program includes two specializations: The health information management track is focused on long-term care and gerontology; the second is in clinical/phlebotomy studies. Professional courses include health information management, health statistics, medical records, law and ethics, information technology and security, in addition to courses in basic lab procedures and pharmacology.
With a federal mandate that all Americans have access to electronic health records by 2014, Plaza students and graduates must be ready! This degree program will prepare graduates as office managers, overseeing front office operations in doctors’ offices or clinical/assistant managers in larger medical facilities, home health care facilities, managed care organizations and out-patient care centers .
According to data published by the U.S. Department of Labor in the Occupational Outlook Handbook, employment of medical and health service managers is expected to increase by 16 percent through 2016.
This is an upper division program which provides students with:
