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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on sources and uses of health data, including health data collection through manual and automated systems, data retrieval, analysis and display. Students are familiar with and able to define and compute healthcare statistics. It includes vital statistics, reportable diseases and conditions, quality assessment and improvement (QA & I) standards and requirements of accrediting, licensing, fiscal, and other regulatory agencies. Prerequisite: HIT 107, MTH 107 2/3/0 Course fee charged
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the management and personnel skills necessary for entry-level employment at the supervisory level. It emphasizes management functions including planning, organizing, controlling, and directing and personnel skills such as communication, motivation, recruitment, discipline, and team building. Individual role playing and group activities are used. Prerequisite: HIT 107 Co-requisite: HIT 110 3/0/0 Course fee charged
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology, with emphasis on evaluation and management, modifiers, and surgical procedure coding guidelines. Students are presented with referencing resources specific to current conventional and federally administered CPT-4 coding guidelines. It discusses tumor and trauma registries. It uses a computerized classification system. Prerequisite: HIT 200 Co-requisite: HIT 110 2/3/0 Course fee charged
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2.00 Credits
This course presents Third Party Payer and Compliance/Auditing Issues, Correct Coding Policy, and Government Prospective Payment Systems (e.g. RBRVS, APC, DRG, RUG). Students learn terminology and principles commonly applied in the Managed Care environment. Students conduct a review of billing practices, applying the compliance guidelines introduced in the course. Prerequisite: HIT 200 Co-requisite: HIT 205 2/0/0 Course fee charged
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2.00 Credits
This course provides supervised professional practice experience in acute and non-acute settings. Practice objectives are designed to focus the student on management-oriented activities, fostering development of observational skills, independent function, problem analysis and solution, as well as integration of a range of technical knowledge and skills previously acquired. Students have clinical practice in the non-acute (direct and non-direct care) settings that provide them with opportunities to compare and contrast fundamental information management practices of alternative sites. Prerequisite: HIT 110, HIT 200, HIT 204 0/0/7 Course fee charged
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3.00 Credits
This course is an intensive study of medical information systems. Students acquire an understanding of health information systems and the application of those systems in the health care environment. Security and confidentiality of information stored in the computer-based patient record are addressed, as well as the logistics of monitoring and utilizing the information. Prerequisite: CIS 132 2/3/0 Course fee charged
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the field of cancer registries, their organization, and management. It focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of cancer data. Regulation organization and agencies requirements, case ascertainment, standards for data collection and management, coding of neoplasms, staging, treatment, abstracting, follow-up, quality control, statistics and epidemiology, reporting and use of data. Prerequisite: HIT 115, HIT 201, HIT 204 3/0/0 Course fee charged
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews the principles of cancer registry case finding and abstracting and focuses on cancer staging and coding. Students learn on a site by site basis the coding, abstracting, and staging of neoplasms using the ICD-0-2 manual, AJCC TNM Staging Manual, SEER Extend of Disease Manual and SEER Summary Staging Manual. Students are given scenarios to learn the general principles of coding and staging. This is the first part of a two-part course. Prerequisite: HIT 115 Co-requisite: HIT 216 2/3/0 Course fee charged
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3.00 Credits
This course continues the work begun in HIT 217. It is designed to expand student competencies in cancer abstracting, coding and staging with emphasis on the practical applications of each. Students apply what they learned in HIT 217 and learn to abstract from cancer cases. Emphasis is placed on the current standards of care for treatment of breast, prostate, lung, colorectal, lymphoma, and central nervous system cancers. Students also receive an in-depth look at the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Standards for approval and the New Jersey Cancer Registry requirements. Prerequisite: HIT 217 Co-requisite: HIT 223 3/3/0 Course fee charged
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3.00 Credits
This course provides supervised clinical learning experiences in local health care facilities. Emphasis is placed on practical application of theory and concepts learned in HIT 216 and HIT 217. Students are responsible for completing clinical objectives specific to Cancer Registry organization and operation under the supervision of a Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR). Prerequisite: HIT 217 Co-requisite: HIT 222 0/0/10 Course fee charged
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