Program Overview
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
- Associate in Applied Science in Healthcare Business Informatics (two years)
- Healthcare IT Foundations Certificate
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
- Apply current and emerging technology applications and data standards to construct medical records and clinical databases
- Utilize technology, including hardware and software applications, to ensure data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting of health care information
- Collect, organize, and present data for quality management, utilization management, risk management, and other related studies
- Implement, support, and retrieve data utilizing informatics techniques including data warehousing, integrity, security, mining and reporting