HIM?

I can’t believe how long it has been since the last post I made.  I need to write more often!

A few things have happened in the last couple of months in my life.  MHI at UVic rejected my grad school application.  That was hurting.  Anya got a raise.  Woo-hoo!  Holly had her first period and first agility class.  Both very crazy and amusing to see!  My conversation with Alex Berland had inspired me in many ways, including my passion in health care.  I registered for a couple of courses to get myself SAS certified.  Went to my second toastmaster session.  The first time was in ESL; oh, the good old ESL days.  Loving my job!  I think I’ve finally found my profession, HIM, Health Information Management.

What’s HIM you ask?  Wiki said, “[HIM is] a discipline that focuses on health care data and the management of health care information, regardless of the medium and format”.  A big part of what I do now is to provide mental health and addiction data for various purposes within the ministry of health services.  OK, maybe my job is not too much about managing health care information, but what I do is definitely a part of the data manipulating and communicating process in health services for the province.  I truely believe that the practicality of a health policy is heavily based upon how correct the data is.  Now, to automate the whole process will be our or next generation’s job to improve health care.

Will out.  Let’s see if I can keep this up 🙂

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