A Review of Health Information Management Education in China.

This article provides an outline of formal school-based education in Health Information Management (HIM) in China and the need for higher HIM education in the future. There was no medical record education (the predecessor of Health Information Management education) in China until 1985. The introduction of medical record management was synchronous with Western countries such as the United States in 1921; however, education in this field in China was more than five decades behind. In the past, a medical record department recruited one or more persons and trained them individually on-the-job.