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Jul 03, 2025
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2025-2026 College Catalog
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HIT 225 - Advanced Health Management Information Systems 5 Contact Hours, 3 Credits 2 lecture periods 3 lab periods
Continuation of HIT 150 . Applied concepts in Health Information Management (HIM) Systems. Includes the evolution of healthcare legislation and standards; and health records content and documentation. Also includes electronic health record system legislation and implementation; and health information technologies and data analytics.
Prerequisite(s): HIT 150
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Analyze health record documentation for accuracy and completeness.
- Identify a complete health record according to organizational policies, external regulations, and standards to support documentation requirements throughout the continuum of healthcare.
- Utilize software in the completion of HIM processes.
- Explain analytics and decision support, including the impact on quality and risk adjustment reporting.
- Discuss the importance of accreditation to the healthcare community, the future of careers in HIM, and career advancement.
Performance Objectives:
- Discuss the history of federal legislation and regulations related to healthcare delivery.
- Evaluate documentation standards.
- Analyze policies and procedures for electronic health record regulatory compliance.
- Evaluate key components of health information technology.
- Evaluate the policies and processes of EHR implementation.
- Explain the role of data analytics in healthcare information.
Outline:
- Evolution of Healthcare Legislation and Standards
- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
- Institutional Review Boards
- World Health Organization’s Framework for E-Health Development
- Health Level Seven
- Institute of Medicine (IOM) Reports
- Documentation Standards
- Medical staff bylaws
- Patient safety and quality
- Content of the health record
- Health information media
- Documentation requirements
- Documentation by setting
- Analyze the EHR for completeness
- Content and Ownership
- Electronic Health Record Federal Regulation
- Meaningful Use
- HITECH
- Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
- Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Electronic Health Records (EHR) System Certification
- Health Information Technologies
- Scope of Health IT systems
- Systems Development Life Cycle
- Challenges to EHR implementation
- Technologies designed to support the EHR
- Health Information Exchange
- The Personal Health Record (PHR)
- Implementation of an EHR System
- Steps in implementation
- Migration plan
- Workflow analysis
- Vendor selection
- Cost analysis
- Data Analytics in Healthcare Information
- Clinical measures
- Decision support
- Quality measurement and improvement
- Clinical research
- Data collection
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