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Health Information Governance

UndergraduateLTU-HIM20022025

Course information for 2025 intake

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Enrol by
20 July 2025
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
12 weeks
Start dates
28 July 2025

Price from
$2,124
Upfront cost
$0
Loan available
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available

Health Information Governance

About this subject

  • On successful completion you will be able to:

    1. In teams, analyse theories and issues surrounding health information quality and accountability in the contexts of mandatory and voluntary reporting, corporate and clinical governance.
    2. Distinguish between and explain practice models, health information strategies, and technologies for evaluating and improving patient and client care, service and safety.
    3. Explore contemporary thinking and literature on health information and systems for the purpose of informing the management of healthcare quality and safety.
    4. Identify and interpret the respective state, territory and national policies, legislation   and guidelines relating to patient/client safety; health information, clinical and operational governance; and organisation-wide quality of care.
    5. Differentiate and apply the health data collection, management, auditing and evaluation methodologies for monitoring and improving health care.

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

  • LAT-HIM-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Health Information Management

Others

Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: HB001O

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses

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