Health Information Governance
UndergraduateLTU-HIM20022026
Course information for 2026 intake View information for 2025 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Enrol by
- 5 July 2026
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Price from
- $2,174
- 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:
- Critically analyse theoretical models and standard practices related to governance, including accountability, risk management, and quality and safety functions (individually and in teams).
- Review how governance principles are applied across corporate, clinical, health information, and health information systems contexts.
- Analyse the contemporary Australian landscape in relation to health-related accreditation, healthcare quality and safety.
- Apply (practical) managerial and statistical tools and methods to support effective health information management.
- Health information examined in the context of organisational governance
- Multi-purpose use of health information for health care decision making
- Understanding patient care outcomes and linkage to healthcare organisational performance
- Health information examined the context of service delivery and patient safety
- Audit tools used in performance monitoring and reporting of data in healthcare
- Role of the HIM in healthcare clinical governance frameworks
In this subject, you will explore governance functions in the health sector, including accountability, risk management, accreditation, and quality and safety management, with a focus on health information and supporting technologies within system and organisational contexts. You will develop an understanding of how health information is managed at multiple levels to support quality of care and service delivery. This includes examining individual patient records as evidence of care, aggregated data to measure and evaluate healthcare processes and outcomes, clinical documentation for diagnostic and therapeutic decisions, and coded data used to monitor and improve patient safety.
- Individual Quiz (500 words equivalent) (10%)
- Team Presentation and speaking notes (3 min Team Presentation per person, equivalent to 500 words) (20%)
- Individual Assessment (equivalent to 1250 words) (30%)
- Central Exam (equivalent to 1500 words, 90 mins) (40%)
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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-2026 - Bachelor of Health Information Management
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: HB001O
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed HIM3MHC (Management of Health Information C) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
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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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Health Information Management
UndergraduateLAT-HIM-DEG