CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AS A CAREER IN UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITALS

Health Information Management profession is the heartbeat of every health organization.  With each beat, it supplies much needed-health information to all users such as physicians, staff nurse, health professionals and others.  This profession is faced with many challenges which need to be considered in other for the profession to remain relevant and responsive to change.  Despite these challenges, there are also opportunities that are accrued from choosing this career.  This present work is focused on studying the Challenges and Prospects of Health Information Management as a career in University teaching Hospitals.  The specific objectives of this study are to examine how ever-growing or expanding nature or scope of the profession poses a challenge for those practicing the profession; to determine how financial constraints, environmental factors,