Henderson Joan
Health Inf Manag. 2015;44(3):4-6. doi: 10.1177/183335831504400301.
Health information management professionals have a broad range of skills that are invaluable to the health sector. The advent of the electronic health record has provided the opportunity to aggregate patient data to answer clinical and policy questions in a systematic, timely and reproducible way. The possibility of linking datasets provides greater opportunities for answering clinical and policy questions, and Health Information Managers (HIMs) have the best skill set to inform about data quality, coding and classification, privacy, security, and medico-legal implications involved in the ethical handling of such datasets. HIMs have access to a wealth of data that could improve patient care and reduce unnecessary service utilisation, and that could be used to answer many research questions. Undertaking and publishing research is an excellent avenue for HIMs to promote and strengthen their profession.
健康信息管理专业人员具备一系列广泛的技能，这些技能对卫生部门来说非常宝贵。电子健康记录的出现提供了汇总患者数据的机会，以便以系统、及时和可重复的方式回答临床和政策问题。链接数据集的可能性为回答临床和政策问题提供了更多机会，而健康信息管理人员拥有最佳的技能组合，能够提供有关数据质量、编码与分类、隐私、安全以及此类数据集的道德处理所涉及的医学法律问题的信息。健康信息管理人员可以获取大量数据，这些数据可以改善患者护理并减少不必要的服务使用，还可用于回答许多研究问题。开展并发表研究是健康信息管理人员促进和加强其职业的绝佳途径。
