HIP Role Profiles

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COACH HIP Role Profiles 2009

The Health Informatics Professional Role Profiles is a unique new tool designed to achieve more consistency in HIP? roles and foster human resource development and capacity building.

The profiles are high-level outlines of a position's main responsibilities for the 65 job titles on the HIP Career Matrix. Based on 500+ job descriptions, the document includes new and emerging roles. See Sample Role Profile

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*About Role Profiles* Contains profiles for the 65 job titles on the HIP Career Matrix Includes new & emerging roles Based on 500+ job descriptions Profiles organized in 7 competency domain areas on Matrix Field tested on survey for HI and HIM Human Resources Report

About Role Profiles

Contains profiles for the 65 job titles on the HIP Career Matrix
Includes new & emerging roles
Based on 500+ job descriptions
Profiles organized in 7 competency domain areas on Matrix
Field tested on survey for HI and HIM Human Resources Report

Developing job descriptions for a new organization or new areas within an organization;
Updating and modernizing job descriptions, to reflect the evolving nature of HI;
Educating stakeholders about what HI professionals do;
Assisting individuals to understand opportunities for their own career planning

Chiko Chakravertty, Carolyn Hayden and Karen Zimmer explore Profiles in the COACH Journal article "What Does It Take to Be HIP?"
What Does it Take to be HIP? (PDF)

COACH welcomes your feedback to enhance the document in future. Next steps include developing a related interactive tool for identifying career paths.

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