Welcome to Health Information Technology

Improving the availability and use of health care data is a priority of Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) as it works to 

improve the quality and equity of health care services. The Health Sector Transformation Plan developed by the FMOH in 2015 established the Information Revolution (IR) as an essential element in support of the health sector transformation agenda. This revolution in health sector demands specially trained health information management professionals.  However, there is shortage of trained manpower with appropriate knowledge and skill in managing health information and this is a big issue in implementing health information systems. Therefore, equipping trainees with appropriate knowledge and skill so that they will be competent at all level of health information management systems is the big role of training centers (Colleges).

The department of Health Information Technology is one of the department’s in the College of Hosanna Health Science College which is initially started to offer diploma courses and enroll students since 2010. In addition to the diploma program the department, is running degree program in Health Informatics in regular program by post basic and generic.

                                                     Vision

      Vision of the department is aspiring to create a center of excellence in education, research and practice. 

                                                     Mission: 

    mission of the department is contributing to the society by producing ethically well-equipped and competitive HIT/HI professionals.

 The Department offers courses in classrooms that it shares with other departments of the College. As to the staff profile at the department, in total there are over 27 staff of which 6 are lecturers, 13 are assistant lecturer and 8 are technical assistants. The college has three well organized computer skill laboratories with each containing 30 computers and the college has plan to expand number of skill labs.

Learners who successfully completed the three-year diploma program will be qualified to work as a Health Information Technician and graduates of this program will have the required qualification to work in the Health and Health related sector in the field of Health Information Technology.

The Health Informatics degree program is designed to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude of the learners to the standard required by the Occupation. Trainees who successfully completed the Program will be qualified to work as a Health Informatics with the graduate profiles:

• Health information system manager
• Medical record officer and health information technologist
• Health care network and systems administrator
• Health care computer programmer
• Health care database manager (administrator )
• Health care web developer
• Health care system analyst
• Health informatics instructor/Educator
• Health System Researcher
• Health System Planner/Officer

The department, staff, and administration are all here to support our students and promote their academic prowess in this wonderful and important field of study.

                                                                                 Sincerely,

                                                                                              Getahun Tekle

                                                       Department coordinator, Health Information Technology

                                                                                          Contact Address:

                                                                                     Email:hchsteamofhit@gmail.com

                                                                                      Mobile: +251-920-721-573

                                                                                   P.O. Box: 159,  Hossana, Ethiopia.

                                    Thank you once for visiting our website! Please contact with us to get more information about our department.

                                                                                      HIT Department Staff 

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