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Course Criteria
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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.
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3.00 Credits
Students further develop management skills with an emphasis placed upon organizational and departmental management. This course uses case studies, lectures, exercises, and guest speakers to learn about the following concepts: payment and reimbursement systems, clinical data and reimbursement management, compliance strategies and reporting (e.g. National Correct Coding Initiative), charge-master management, HIM ethics, legal aspects and release of information, professional ethics, principals of management, strategic planning, marketing, human resources management, education and training, leadership, motivation, team building, work redesign, HIM statistics, and research pertinent to the HIM field. Students will develop an analytic and problem solving approach to managing a health information management department. Prerequisites: HIT 100-216; CIT 101; BUS 101.
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3.00 Credits
This course is taken in the Fall of the final year of the HIM program and builds upon HIA 306 to further explore health information management issues. Initially, students work with an HIM faculty member to analyze and evaluate a wide range of case studies to insure proficiency in professional competency, including a health information management project undertaken in a clinical site, project management techniques and the tools that are used including creation of a project charter and deliverables. This project is based upon the student?s area of interest and the capacity of the HIM to place them in a quality environment. Assessment examinations will be a required section of the course. Additionally, as a capstone course, it will address the following issues: health promotion, community service, ethical and professional issues, GMC learning outcomes, and core values of a distinctive Mercy graduate. The students will also begin the development of a professional portfolio that reflects their professional competencies as well as the GMC outcomes. This process will be continued and finalized in HIA 407.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses pathophysiology and history of diseases as well as pharmacology, biomedical/health research and investigation, national research policy-making and epidemiologic evaluation. Students will build upon the course work in the HIT curriculum to develop a more integrated knowledge base of information that assists in technical, analytic and research skill. Students will also be exposed to the history of public health and an overview of current public health systems in the United States. Prerequisites: HIT 100-216; HIT 208 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an opportunity to explore current changes that have occurred in the organization of health care and in health information management. While some other topics may be included, based on current issues at the time the course is provided, the standard areas addressed include: the electronic health record and health delivery record and associated legislation, information security, the organization of health care, health care organizations, current legislation and legal issues, professional ethics, marketing, human resource management, education and training, entrepreneuralism, library research techniques, changes in content to the medical record, vocabulary standards and classification and nomenclatures, and human subject research, instructional review board and ethical issues in healthcare. Prerequisites: HIT 100-216; CIS 101; BUS 101 or permission of the program director.
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3.00 Credits
This course is taken in the Fall of the final year of the HIM program and builds upon HIA 306 to further explore health information management issues. Initially, students work with an HIM faculty member to analyze and evaluate a wide range of case studies to insure competence in professional competency, including process reengineering and work redesign. The second portion of the class involves a health information management project undertaked in a clinical site, project management techniques and the tools that are used including creation of a project charter and deliverables. This project is based upon the student's area of interest and the capacity of the HIM to place them in a quality environment. Assessment examinations will be a required section of this course. Prerequisites: HIT 100-216; HIA 301, 303, 306, 401, 403. Corequisites: ACC 105, 106, 301; BUS 371; CIS 101, 203, 306.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the last course the student takes in the HIM curriculum and is designed to integrate all material learned in both the two year associate degree and the four year baccalaureate program. It is always offered in Spring of any given year. Students will be assigned to two clinical sites during the semester and are required to complete manuals for both sites. This is a non-paid affiliation and students may not be substituted for paid workers. This course requires that a minimum of 80 hours be completed in an acute care facility and a minimum of 40 hours in a non-acute care facility. Every effort will be made to accommodate students in their placement, however, the HIM program reserves the right to limit placement to those sites that will provide a quality clinical experience. Assessment examinations will be required section of this course. Prerequisites: HIT 100-216; HIA 301, 303, 305, 401, 403, 405; ACC 105, 106, 301; BUS 371; CIS 101, 213, 215.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of the developments of western societies and ideologies from the origins of civilization in the ancient Near East to the mid-seventeenth century.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of modern Europe from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Topics include the development of political systems and ideologies, intellectual, scientific, political, social and industrial revolutions, nationalism, imperialism, communism and globalism.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of the developments of societies from the origins of the earliest civilizations in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas to 1500.
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