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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: HSC 1531, BSC 1084C, and CGS 1061C. This course will introduce the student to the essential application principles of Health Information Management. The history of the Health Information Management profession in correlation with the present and future career opportunities will be discussed. The student will be introduced to the health care organizations and the licensing/accrediting bodies.Content of the acute care health record including form design, formats, and documentation requirements will be investigated. Confidential and ethical issues of patient's health care information will be covered.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: HSC 1531, BSC 1084C and CGS 1061C. Students will comprehend the HIM role of federal and state laws governing release and protection of health care documents. HIPAA, patient rights, advance directives, and retention guidelines will be covered.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: BSC 1084C, HSC 1531. Principal applications for coding of disease processes, identified conditions, and procedures that are in accordance with the official ICD-9-CM Coding Guidelines are the focus of this course. Appropriate code selection and sequencing will be practiced. This is a fast paced course which requires extensive work outside of the class.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HIM 1000C. Non-acute Health Care Delivery Systems will be investigated with focus on accreditation, risk management, case management and prospective payment systems. Students will be introduced to data registries and the utilization of the electronic record.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HSC 2554 OR Corequisite: OST 2612C and OST 2613C for Medical Records Transcription Majors The course teaches the actions and side effects of most commonly prescribed drugs and introduces laboratory tests utilized in medicine. Therapeutic drugs and indications and contraindications associated with drug therapy and related disease processes are described. This course introduces terms, by body systems, used by health care practitioners to describe laboratory, radiology and pathology procedures and pharmacological products. Antibiotics, antiviral drugs, IV fluids, blood products, anesthetics and chemotherapeutic agents are covered. The student will learn how to abstract key information from the medical record to assist in improving physician documentation and to ensure all valid conditions are coded.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: HIM1400C and HIM 1012. This practicum will provide students with a supervised experience in an assigned health care facility's Health Information Management (HIM) department. This entry level practicum will provide students with a strong foundation in the technical aspects of HIM. Emphasis will be placed on the quantitative and qualitative aspects of assembly/analysis of inpatient/outpatient records; filing and retrieval of health care records/documents; and the medico-legal procedures/ processes. Manual and automated systems for performing the above functions will be practiced. The student will spend a minimum of 80 contact hours at the assigned facility. Students should be prepared to work 1 day a week at the assigned facility.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CGS 1100 and HIM 1800L. Computer systems in health care will be discussed with emphasis on systems encountered by Health Information Departments. Clinical data repositories, community health information networks, telemedicine, the evolvement/advancement of computerized medical record, and optical disc will be discussed. Creating and maintaining databases and alternative methods for formatting and presenting data will be applied. The importance of data integrity and the effects on health care organizations will be emphasized.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: HIM 1000C and MTB 1103 or MGF 1106. This class will provide students with a working knowledge of terms, definitions, and formulas required to compute statistical information applied within healthcare settings. The student will compute common health care statistics and interpret statistical/reimbursement data. Date literacy, research and presentation will also be a focus of this class.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: HIM 1222C. This advanced coding course is designed to enhance the student's quality of coding by introducing chart application and DRG logic through practical application. Manual and automated coding and grouping and will be practiced. The Prospective Payment System, case mix analysis, and billing systems will also be discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: HIM 2234C. The rules and regulations governing outpatient, ambulatory, ancillary, physician, and chargemaster coding will be emphasized. Skills for accurate and optimal coding of medical, surgical, anesthesia, radiology, laboratory, and pathology will be practiced. APC's, RBRVS, fee schedules, HCPC's II and III will be researched.Coding and billing compliance will be investigated and applied.
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