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Health Information Management Courses HLTHINFO 115 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH RECORDS (3-0-3)(S). Principles of medical record technology, the professional organizations, medical record practitioners, and the content of the hospital chart. HLTHINFO 120 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS IN HEALTH SCIENCE (3-0-3)(F,S). Word processing, database management, spread sheet analysis, and graphical presentation of health science information. The acquisition of information on selected topics requiring the use of microcomputers in health information management and medical informatics. HLTHINFO 200 HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TOPICS (2-0-2)(S). Current health information management topics including transcription, data quality, and other information specific areas. HLTHINFO 201 HEALTH INFORMATION I (3-0-3)(F). Preparation, analysis, preservation, and retrieval of health information manually and by computer. The value of this information to the patient, the doctor, and the community. PREREQ: HLTHINFO 115. COREQ: HLTHINFO 202. HLTHINFO 202 HEALTH INFORMATION I LABORATORY (0-4-2)(F). Practice in the various methods of numbering, filing, and retrieving health records manually and by computer. COREQ: HLTHINFO 201. HLTHINFO 203 HEALTH INFORMATION II (3-0-3)(S). Study the uses of coded data and health information in reimbursement and payment systems appropriate to health care settings and managed care. Introduce the principles of quality assessment and other resource management processes in order to collect and analyze data. PREREQ: HLTHINFO 201. COREQ: HLTHINFO 204. HLTHINFO 204 HEALTH INFORMATION II LABORATORY (0-4-2)(S). Application of coded data in payment and reimbursement systems including DRG assignment. Application of quality assessment collection tools, data analysis, data reporting techniques. Application of resource management, case management tools, and utilization review. COREQ: HLTHINFO 203. HLTHINFO 205 HEALTH DATA (3-0-3)(S). Collection and presentation of routine data for daily, monthly, and annual hospital statistical reports. Formulas, preparation of birth certificates, and abstracting data for the computer. PREREQ: PERM/INST. HLTHINFO 207 CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS (3-0-3)(F). Focus on coding and classifications systems to assign valid diagnostic and/or procedure codes. Principles and applications of coding systems will include those used in the computer based patient record, the validation of coded clinical information, and case mix/severity of illness data. PREREQ: PERM/INST. HLTHINFO 208 CPT CODING AND ALTERNATIVE CARE RECORDS (2-0-2)(S). Coding principles and applications for statistical and reimbursement purposes utilizing Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology. PREREQ: HLTHINFO 207. HLTHINFO 215 CLINICAL PRACTICE (0-V-2)(S). Students will complete directed clinical practice in health information areas of affiliated health care facilities for a total of 120 hours. (Pass/Fail.) HLTHINFO 301 (HLTHST 301) COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE (3-0-3)(F/S). Clinical, research and administrative applications of computers in the health care industry from which information is currently derived. PREREQ: HLTHINFO 120, CIS 104-CIS 105-CIS 106, or EDTECH 202. HLTHINFO 309 HEALTHCARE NETWORKS AND DATABASES (3-0-03)(F)(Offered in odd numbered years). Issues of health database management. Includes medical data systems and software. PREREQ: HLTHINFO 120, CIS 104-CIS 105-CIS 106, EDTECH 202, or PERM/INST. HLTHINFO 409 HEALTH DATA RESEARCH (3-0-3)(F/S). Applied research issues and procedures. Issues in health database management: research design, validity and reliability, data set design and manipulation, database security, and protection, retrieval programming, and statistical output. PREREQ: Upper-division standing and one of the following HLTHINFO 120, CIS 104-CIS 105-CIS 106, EDTECH 202, or PERM/INST. HLTHINFO 435 (HLTHST 435) ISSUES AND TRENDS IN HEALTH INFORMATICS (3-0-3)(F) (Offered in odd numbered years). Issues related to patient privacy and security practices, information business processes in health organizations, electronic information, and analysis and interpretation of rules and regulations. HLTHINFO 493 HEALTH INFORMATION INTERNSHIP (1-4-3)(F/S). An internship in a health data area under the direction of a preceptor who is a practicing professional. Student keeps a record of experiences and discusses them at a weekly one-hour seminar. PREREQ: Upper-division standing; recommendation of faculty advisor; consent of instructor. (Pass/Fail).
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