Earning Criteria

• HI135: Legal Aspects of Health Information. This course provides some foundational theory of the health care and health information profession. Topics include the U.S. health care system and the health information management profession, legal and ethical issues in health information management, and some common legal compliance issues. You will have the opportunity to utilize computerized software to perform tasks related to the release and management of the health record.
• HI150: Automation of Health Information. This course covers the knowledge and skills needed to work within a computerized health care environment. It reinforces basic software skills in applications, and outlines the critical stages of developing a health information system. The key features of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Health Information Exchanges (HIE), as well as the importance of safeguarding protected health information, along with privacy and security issues, are explored.
• HI230: Quality Assurance and Statistics in Health Information. This course studies performance improvement and quality assessment concepts as they relate to health information and quality care at the facility level. Team concepts, risk management, utilization management, health care institutional accreditation, data quality issues, and patient outcomes are important topics in this course, and is the the correlation of performance metrics with use of health care data for decision making.
• HS111: Medical Terminology. This course provides a logical understanding of the language of medicine. Basic prefixes, suffixes, word roots, and rules for taking a singular term and making it plural are studied, along with word analysis, word building, spelling, and pronunciation. These principles are applied to each body system and are reviewed with anatomy and physiology; diagnostic, lab, and surgical procedures; and pharmacology for interest and knowledge.
• HS165: Cultural Competence and Communication for Health Professionals. This course focuses on assessing cultural competency, cultural blindness, and the importance of cultural competence in a health care context. The impact of diversity on patient, colleague, and provider interactions is discussed. Strategies to help patients improve their health literacy are explored. This course also examines the policy of conscientious objection and its legal implication.