Health care is the fastest growing market in the computer field. With the federal mandate to implement the electronic health record (EHR) and the paradigm shift in industry to health informatics, the Health Information Management (HIM) field is rapidly evolving from paperbased medical records management to an increasingly electronic environment. To accommodate this migration, skill sets for HIM professionals are expanding to include a wide range of technical expertise in specialized areas, including relational database management, data communications, programming, and systems analysis.The Healthcare Database Management and Design (HDMD) focus area is designed for students interested in a non-clinical care IT profession in the health care industry merging both the healthcare background with IT database and business analysis skills.