Unlike other kids who grew up having a dream profession. I believed fate would make a way for me, a deadly mistake I made. I was brilliant and good in both science and art subjects, choosing which field to specialize in became a hard nut to crack. "Go for sciences" everyone advised and without a second thought I joined the science class and I was doing well but still had no choice of course at heart. As time went by, I decided I was going for medicine, not because I had a passion for it, I never had passion for any course anyway, I just wanted to hold onto something.
After my secondary school, I started to develop a passion for engineering. I loved the idea of constructing something new, but my parents felt engineering was not a good choice of course. They wanted me to study a medical related course and since they were the sponsor, I agreed I was going for medicine and that was because I had no passion for any course at that time, but I never did, rather I later settled for a course I never knew existed in the university. I wouldn't bore you with details on how I later found myself in a school I never knew existed, all you should know is that I heard of that course for the first time while sitting in the lecture room.
I studied Health Information Management. History mentioned that it started in line with medicine in the Egyptian period where record keeping was important in the practice of Aesculapia. Health information management is the collection, collation, analyzing, and utilizing of health data for planning and other managerial purposes. Record keeping is important especially on health data. Doctors have been able to know what worked in the past and what didn't work because of the records they kept during the process of treatment, and it's through the collection of data that outbreak of certain diseases and the causes are recognized.
The duty of a Health Information Manager is to collect health data both personal and clinical, document these data, assign to them a unique identity code for future reference, file them on shelves, retrieve the file and analyze them. In summary, we collect and analyze patient's data to assist the hospital make proper planning. The data collected are also used to inform the public on outbreak and certain precautions. We have a slogan that says "Memory forgets but records remember" . This shows the importance of record keeping in every organization, without record, history will be forgotten and no impact will come in the future time what is done in this present time. The Health information managers take the burden of collecting patients' records and storing them for future reference.
