Healthcare Business Informatics Program Overview
This program has been suspended for the 2022 – 2023 academic year pending termination.
College of The Albemarle’s (COA) Healthcare Business Informatics (HBI) program will help prepare you for employment as a specialist in:
- Installation
- Data management
- Data archiving/retrieval
- System design and support
- Computer training for medical information systems
Degree and Certificate Options
- Healthcare Business Informatics – Associate in Applied Science A 25 510
- Healthcare IT Foundations Certificate C 25 510
Healthcare Business Informatics Careers
- Database/data warehouse analysts
- Technical support professionals
- Informatics technology professionals
- Medical appliance technicians
- Medical records and health information technicians
- Networking and security technicians
- Computer maintenance professionals in the healthcare field
Student Learning Outcomes
- Understand the fundamentals of healthcare billing including program eligibility and reimbursement methods used by government and commercial payers
- Define HIPAA and identify regulatory safeguards for the communication of medical data
- Use a relational database or other software solution to generate reports and extract data for decision making purposes