HIM S101 Introduction to Health Information Management I
3 credits (2+2)
An overview of health care systems and the health information management profession. Introduces classification systems, health record content and documentation, data governance and management, and secondary data sources. Presents information protection, access disclosure, archival, privacy and security. Introduces informatics, analytics and data use, including health information technologies, information management strategic planning, decision support, health care statistics, research methods, consumer informatics, health information exchange and information integrity and data quality.
Prerequisite: Admission to the program.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain Classification Systems
- Demonstrate understanding and use of health record content and documentation standards
- Apply policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy of health data
- Explain data management including secondary data sources
- Apply health law to the practice of health information management
- Identify data privacy, confidentially and security standards of practice
- Apply policies and procedures surrounding issues of access and disclosure of protected health information
- Identify Information management strategic planning
- Explain analytics and decision support
- Recognize the use of health care statistics
- Explain common research methodologies and why they are used in health care
- Explain consumer informatics
- Explain current trends in health information exchange
- Apply Policies and procedures to ensure information integrity and data quality
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