Health information management (HIM) professionals compile, code, analyze, and prepare health information. Patients, health care facilities, agencies that pay claims, physicians, the public, and other members of healthcare teams, are all different people who need this information.
HIM professionals work in hospitals, clinics, nursing facilities, rehabilitation centers, behavioral health institutes, insurance companies, and for consulting agencies. They also work for vendors, in private physician offices, in specialty hospitals, and in managed care facilities.