Health information management (HIM) is the practice of gathering, analyzing, and safeguarding health information for hospitals and healthcare and insurance companies. This information includes things like X-rays, patient records, lab results, and other clinical information that make up a person’s medical history. The duties and responsibilities of a health information management consultant are to assist an organization in making its information and documentation operations more efficient, easier to use, and safer. As a health information management consultant, you are contracted by a company or organization to audit its current system and develop a new one in consultation with workers and managers.