Alumni Testimonials
Alicia Harris
Currently I work for Hattiesburg Clinic P.A. as a Clinical Analyst.
The Health Information Management (HIM) program at William Carey has helped me become a highly sought after HIM professional in a rapidly growing industry. This program has instilled a broad array of skills such as analytical and critical thinking, has enforced a strong knowledge of privacy and confidentiality principles, and has reiterated the importance of quality patient care through informatics. This solid background has allowed me to leverage a skill set to be successful in a variety of settings and job titles. If you want to make a difference in healthcare by working with data and technology, then HIM is the program for you!
Brandon Nicholson
Currently, I work for University of Mississippi Medical Center in the Division of Information Department. I support several Epic applications that focus on the patient experience, exchange of information, and external users.
The R.H.I.A. program at William Carey University (WCU) is preparing the next standard of informed professionals for an ever changing, technologically driven world. The quality education I received from the R.H.I.A. program at WCU prepared me to enter the workforce as an informed, educated, and valuable asset for each hiring organization. The amazing unforeseen variable of the R.H.I.A. education, the knowledge learned applies to a large facet of service lines in the medical field including Health Information Management, Compliance, the Information Technology (IT), among others. I recommend the R.H.I.A. program at William Carey University to anyone that is interested in the medical field aside from delivering direct patient care.
Fatma Otwane
I currently work for CDC-Info under MAXIMUS Federal as a Health Coordinator. I analyze and share healthcare data each day and much appreciation to the HIM program that provided me the skills and knowledge I enjoy my job every day!
The Health Information Management Program has and is still helping me in my career:
1. As an RHIA certified and AHIMA member since 2016, I have access to current HIM resources, job opportunities, guidance from experts to help me develop and grow in my HIM career.
2. HIM training helped me in Leadership skills that allowed me to lead a healthcare team as the health and wellness director in an organization that required leading, training, and supporting nurses during and after the implementation of electronic health records, data retention, data analysis, and privacy and security issues in a healthcare system.
3. HIM program prepared me for my master's program (MS-HAE) which I was able to complete successfully. The knowledge and skills that I acquired in the HIM program made it easy in my decision to continue my continuous education.
4. At this time, job opportunities related to HIM are growing by the day and this includes job opportunities in coding, education, health data analysis, healthcare administration, etc. I am glad I made the bold step to join the HIM program.
5. The knowledge I acquired from the HIM program helps me greatly in my current employment because I have an understanding of healthcare data, healthcare data exchange while maintaining privacy and security issues that are required in handling healthcare data.
6. Lastly, the health information program gave me the opportunity to be an RHIA and thus a custodian of healthcare data. I would encourage others to join the HIM program because as the healthcare systems continue to shift towards electronic health records so is the demand for HIM expertise. HIM provides guidance, sources, and expertise to help those who want to be custodians of healthcare data grow.
Tina McKeithen
Currently I work at Gulfport Behavioral Health System as their Health Information Manager.
The Health Information Management program(HIM) at William Carey University has helped me become a highly trained HIM professional. My skills include information management technology , that I can use in any healthcare organization. With my accomplishments learned in the program , my organization can rest assured they will have the right information when needed, by maintaining data integrity, confidentiality , and security. William Carey’s HIM program has given me a bright future and Job security. As Health information Management expands , so will the roles of the HIM professional.
