Health Information Management Certificate of Achievement

The Certificate of Achievement in Health Information Management (HIM) includes instruction in medical records, health information software applications, data entry, legal aspects, and statistics. Course work also includes the fundamentals of medical science, medical terminoloy, and basic anatomy and physiology, lecture and lab. This is a stackable pathway towards the Associate of Applied Science degree in HIM. All courses with the HIM prefix are fully online. The normal completion time for this program is one year or two full-time semesters equating to 30 credit hours; assuming appropriate placement scores. 

Prerequisites/General Education: Students must have a “C” or better in coursework.

Extra-Curricular/Cocurricular Opportunities at ECC: ECC offers a wide variety of clubs and cocurricular activities for all students.

Accreditation

East Central College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
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Chicago, Illinois 60602-2504
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