Health Information Management Week 2026
As healthcare becomes increasingly digital and data-driven, the role of health information management continues to evolve. Data quality, privacy, information governance, clinical documentation, artificial intelligence and emerging digital health technologies are placing greater importance on the specialist skills needed to manage health information effectively.
HIMAA CEO, Sallyanne Wissmann, highlights that health information management is central to areas including data quality, integrity, privacy, governance, classification and digital health systems.
“Trusted and timely health information enables optimal care and informed decision-making, making the profession critical to patient outcomes and health system performance.”
For records and information management professionals, there is a strong connection. Effective governance, reliable records, appropriate classification and lifecycle management all contribute to information that can be trusted when it matters most.
Health Information Management Week is also an opportunity to recognise the people behind this work and the importance of building strong education, career and workforce pathways for the next generation of health information professionals.