This course is designed to broaden student’s employment opportunities. Students can complete a combination of public health and optional units in the health sciences major, or specialize in health information management. Health information is pivotal to clinical care, and is used as a base for healthcare planning management and legal decisions, clinical research and epidemiology, and for evaluating the standards and quality of healthcare, it is for this reason health information managers need to have strong clinical understanding in addition to extensive training in information technology and systems, data and database management and staff management.