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3.00 Credits
(Course has not been offered in the past two years) Introduces the principles of health information management. Topics include admitting procedures, analysis of medical records, organizing health information systems, statistics, and legal aspects of medical records services. Covers basic health information management areas related to the acquisition and maintenance of health care data. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to these concepts and develop their knowledge in the areas of numbering, filing, indices, registers, record retention, storage and retrieval systems, microfilming, and optical disk storage. Covers admitting and billing procedures and basic computerization in the health information management field, including keyless data entry techniques for bar coding, smart cards, voice recognition, magnetic strip, touch screens, electronic data interchange, and optical character recognition. Prerequisite: HIM* 102.
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3.00 Credits
3 S.H. Describes the quality assurance process for health care staff. Topics include external regulatory agencies, utilization reviews, medical care evaluations, and professional standards review organizations. Emphasizes the medical record, its content, importance, uses, forms, and the procedure of assembly and analysis. Also discusses, in depth, the guidelines from the joint commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, the federal government's Conditions of Participation, and the American Osteopathic Association. Examines the different medical record formats and explains the types used commonly in various health care organizations. Prerequisite: HIM* 102. Corequisites: HIM* 201 and HIM* 214.
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3.00 Credits
3 S.H. Introduces human disease using a systems approach, emphasizing the abnormal physiological processes that result in the signs and symptoms of various disorders. Also discusses the rationales behind treatments and the complex interrelationships between bodily systems. Prerequisites: BIO* 211, BIO* 212, and HIM* 101. Corequisite: HIM* 214.
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3.00 Credits
(Course has not been offered in the past two years) 3 S.H. Covers the history, format, and conventions of the International Classification of Diseases and its use in health care documentation, statistics, research, education, and financial reimbursement through the prospective payment system. Also presents such secondary records as indices, registers, and follow-up registries. Incorporates terminology related to diagnoses, procedures and surgeries in the inpatient, acute-care setting. Introduces sequencing guidelines and rules for diagnoses, procedures, and surgeries. Considerable time will be spent learning the general coding rules and conventions for ICD-9-CM. The course further focuses on coding V codes, E codes, late effects, signs, symptoms, and other body system diseases and treatments. Uses various teaching methods, such as lectures, demonstrations, scenario presentations, workbook exercises, laboratory exercises, and homework assignments. Prerequisite: HIM* 214. Corequisite: HIM* 226.
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3.00 Credits
3 S.H. Provides a supervised learning experience in a health care facility. Involves an overview of the health information management department with an emphasis on developing coding and medical correspondence skills. Furthermore, develops such health information processing skills as abstracting, statistics, and tumor registry. Students will meet eight hours a day, two days a week in an assigned clinical facility where they will apply their aforementioned skills. Prerequisite: HIM* 102. Corequisites: HIM* 202 and HIM* 203.
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3.00 Credits
3 S.H. Provides a supervised learning experience in a health care facility where students have the opportunity to refine technical skills consistent with the needs of various health care delivery systems. Compares and contrasts the needs of different information systems, allowing students to observe management techniques and their effects on project completion. Enhances problem-solving skills for day-to-day situations and problems in an active, dynamic health information department. Students will meet eight hours a day, two days a week in an assigned clinical facility where they will apply the aforementioned skills. Prerequisite: HIM* 214. Corequisite: HIM* 204.
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3.00 Credits
Presents a special treatment of the social, economic, political, and cultural development of the American people, beginning with the Age of Discovery and Colonial settlement and continuing through the Civil War. Topics include Puritanism, Hamiltonianism, and Sectionalism.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a topical, rather than a chronological, approach to the Reconstruction in the South, from 1865 to the present. Applies the same approach in the same time span to other topics, such as labor, agriculture, business, foreign affairs, and progressivism. Topics are based on a contemporary problem, taking into account its historical perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Demonstrates the significant role African-Americans have played in history. Starting in Africa, stresses such topics as slave trade and slavery. Continuing through the Colonial and antebellum periods to the Reconstruction and segregation eras, places the African-American in the proper perspective within the fully dimensional picture of America.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the African-American experiences from the Post-Reconstruction era through modern times. Illustrates some of the many success stories of African-Americans and identifies the obstacles that were placed in their way. Covers the Harlem Renaissance, Brown vs the Board of Education, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and the Great Society.
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