Certified Health Information Management professionals are in high demand across the continuum of care. Major changes to our health care system are creating exciting career opportunities in a variety of health care settings across the continuum of care and within the provincial and federal governments.

Health Information Management professionals are one of the few professionals trained to meet these challenges:

• Contribute to health care delivery as members of the health care team;
• Manage health information services in health facilities;
• Work with confidential health records: format, content, quality, and use;
• Use technologies to capture, manage and analyze data;
• Prepare, analyze, and present health information for use in health care delivery and financial and management planning;
• Interact with medical staff, health providers, and management;
• May specialize in areas such as research, management, quality improvement, risk analysis, clinical trials, and clinical financial resource integration; and
• Maintain skills, knowledge, and expertise through mandatory Continuing Professional Education (CPE)