Plans, develops, implements and manages health information services, such as patient information systems, and clinical and administrative data, to meet the medical, legal, ethical and administrative requirements of health care delivery.

Skill Level

1

Specialisations

• Clinical Trial Data Manager
• Health Data Administrator

Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed below.

Skills Assessment authority for Health Information Manager is Vocational Education and Training Assess (VETASSESS). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• Three pathways for skills assessment by SSSI
  • Pathway A – Qualification(s) assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher degree with a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;
  • Pathway B – Qualification(s) assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher degree with an additional qualification at least Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Diploma level in a highly relevant field of study and at least two years of post qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;
  • Pathway C – Qualification(s) assessed at AQF Bachelor degree or higher degree without a highly relevant field of study and at least three years of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years;

develop, maintain, implement and deliver systems for keeping, updating, accessing and preserving records, files, information, historical documents and artefacts.

Tasks

• evaluating and preserving records for administrative, historical, legal, evidential and other purposes
• preparing record-keeping systems, indexes, guides and procedures for archival research and for the retention and destruction of records
• identifying and classifying specimens and objects, and arranging restoration work
• examining items and arranging examinations to determine condition and authenticity
• designing and revising medical record forms
• managing organisations’ central records systems
• analysing the record-keeping needs of organisations, and translating these needs into record management systems
• maintaining computerised and other record management systems and record forms, and advising on their usage
• controlling access to confidential information, and recommending codes of practice and procedures for accessing records
• developing record cataloguing, coding and classification systems, and monitoring their use

Skill Level

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification. At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification. In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Occupations in this Group

• 224211 Archivist
• 224212 Gallery or Museum Curator
• 224213 Health Information Manager
• 224214 Records Manager