Health Information Management Courses

Fundamentals of Disease Processes

Human Anatomy & Physiology I
Human Anatomy & Physiology II
Specialized Computer applications for Health Information Management
English Composition I
Medical Terminology
Health Information Processing
Drug Classification for Coding
Introductory Medical Office Coding
Medicolegal & Ethics in Healthcare Records
Alternative Health Records & Registries
Ambulatory coding
Quality Improvement, Statistics & Research
Health Information Resource Management
Inpatient coding
Healthcare Information Systems
Professional Practice Experience
Health Information Management Capstone
Interpersonal Communication
General Psychology
Beginning Algebra

Description of the curriculum:

Demonstrate competency and skill in the technology used by the healthcare

information environment.

Apply effective skills in the areas of written and oral communication, critical
thinking and problem solving in the practice of health information
management.

Evaluate and appropriately apply principles of confidentiality and privacy

congruent with the standards and ethics of the health information profession.

Demonstrate the ability to design, organize and implement changes in the

evolution of health information to electronic formats.

Demonstrate proficiency in classifications and nomenclatures sufficient to

support reimbursement in multiple patient care environments.

Demonstrate the ability to perform the health information associate degree

entry-level competencies as identified by the American Health Information
Management Association.

Demonstrate personal behaviors, attitudes and values consistent with and

appropriate to the entry-level health information management professional

Course Descriptions:
Fundamentals of Disease Processes
Pathological changes associated with the most commonly occurring diseases
of each body system. Correlates changes with patient's response, diagnostic
studies, and treatment modalities.
Specialized Computer applications for Health Information
Management
Introduces students to personal computer concepts including hardware,
system software, application software, and the Internet. Learn the
components of computer systems and develop a broad understanding of
computer hardware and emerging technologies. Students will be introduced
to Office application software (word processing, spreadsheets, presentation
software, and databases,) and specific features of those applications for
medical reports, narrating presentations, Autofilters, form creation and
software integration will be applied.
Medical Terminology
Basic prefixes, roots and suffixes; terminology including anatomic, diagnostic,
symptomatic, procedural, eponymic terms and standard abbreviations
required for a working knowledge and understanding of the language of
medicine.

Health Information Processing

Foundations of health information management, the Health Information
Management profession, including health care systems and organization of
HIM functions, data quality, access and retention, patient and healthcare data
and data collection methodologies. Discussion of classification systems,
clinical vocabularies and nomenclatures. Two classroom, two lab hours per
week.
Drug Classification for Coding

An overview of the major drug classifications, common drugs in each class,

conditions for which drugs are administered and their general effects to assist
medical coders in analyzing health care documentation for coding and
reimbursement applications.
Introductory Medical Office Coding
Introduction to principles, guidelines and conventions for assigning ICD-9-CM
or ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes and CPT procedure codes to patient
encounters for physician services.

Medicolegal & Ethics in Healthcare Records

Evaluation of health care records as legal documents; special emphasis on
policies and procedures concerning release of medical information and
protecting patient confidentiality; principles and organization of the judicial
system; health care fraud and abuse and Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations. Ethical issues in health care settings
addressed.
Alternative Health Records & Registries
Organize and operation of a hospital cancer program emphasizing registry
case finding, accession, indexing, abstracting and follow-up of cancer data.
Purposes, uses and handling of health information, departmental and facility
administration, licensing and accreditation requirements and introduction to
payment systems in long-term care and home health care.
Ambulatory coding
Introduction to principles, guidelines and conventions for assigning ICD-9-CM
or ICD-10-CM diagnostic codes and CPT procedure codes to patient
encounters for outpatient facility services. Students should possess
proficiency in basic medical terminology and human anatomy and physiology.

Quality Improvement, Statistics & Research

Organization and analysis of data in health care quality programs including
quality assessment and monitoring, utilization and risk management and
medical staff credentialing. Theory and application of health care statistics
including data definitions, computation of formulae and research principles.
Health Information Resource Management

Planning, organizing, staffing, budgeting and analysis of management

systems along with job standards and performance evaluations emphasizing
development of supervisory management, leadership and communication
skills.
Inpatient coding
Introduction to principles and coding conventions for using ICD-9-CM and/or
ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS for coding inpatient records. Students should
possess proficiency in medical terminology and human anatomy and
physiology.
Healthcare Information Systems
An in-depth look at the use of information systems technology in the health
care delivery system. Includes information security, electronic clinical
systems and health records.
Professional Practice Experience
Practical application of health information management processes, including
health information retrieval, qualitative and quantitative analysis of health
data, record completion by practioners, release of health information,
document scanning, revenue cycle functions, coding, statistical reporting,
hospital-wide and HIM department quality improvement and various other
registries and department functions utilizing medical data.
Health Information Management Capstone
A variety of specially designed projects, student oral presentations, case
studies, simulations, interviewing, resumes and two mock accreditation
exams.
Transition to I-10 Coding
Introduction to principles and conventions for assigning the ICD-10-CM codes
to patient encounters for billing physician services. Understand the transition
from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM with the changes in the code structure, changes
in the chapters within ICD-10-CM, and revised coding conventions and
guidelines.