3.00 Credits
This course addresses health care information systems, requirements, and standards. The student will build upon the skill and knowledge base established through the HIT curriculum and the computer science and business courses taken at the baccalaureate level. Students will develop, access, and evaluate databases, and utilize MS Office products to create documents and reports needed in HIM practice. Students will also be expected to develop educational and training presentations regarding information technology and its applications. The following areas will also be covered during the course: hardware, software, operating systems, application development, communications technologies (networks ? LANS, WANS, VPNs; data interchange standards ? NIST, HL-7), internet technologies (Intranet, web-based systems, standards ? SGML, XML), data, information and file structures (data administration, data definitions, data dictionary, data modeling, data structures, data warehousing, database management systems), data storage and retrieval (storage media, query tools/applications, data mining, report design, search engines), data security (protection methods ? physical, technical, managerial, risk assessment, audit and control program, contingency planning, data recovery, Internet, web-based and e-Health security), leading development of health information resources and systems, brokering of information services, clinical, business and specialty systems applications (administrative, clinical decision support systems, nursing ancillary service systems, patient numbering systems at master and enterprise levels), systems development (planning, analysis and design, customization, selection/procurement, implementation, integration, support, testing and evaluation, auditing and monitoring), systems life cycle (systems analysis, design, implementation, evaluation and maintenance), electronic health record, e-HIM, National Healthcare Information Infrastructure. Prerequisites: HIT 100-216; CIT 101, 213; BUS 101.