Health Information Technology

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT WITH EMPHASIS ON HEALTH DATA STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND STANDARDS
• Collect and maintain health data, such as data elements, data sets, and databases.
• Analyze data to ensure documentation in the health record supports the diagnosis and reflects the patient’s progress, clinical findings, and discharge status.
• Validate policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy of health data.
• Apply clinical vocabularies and terminologies used in the organization’s health information systems.
• Verify timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data and data sources for patient care, management, billing reports, registries, and/or databases.
• SLO # 2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS
• Cite, monitor and apply organization-wide record documentation guidelines.
• Cite and apply policies and procedures to ensure organizational compliance with regulations and standards.
• Define the procedure of reporting compliance findings according to organizational policy.
• Define accuracy and completeness of the patient record as defined by organizational policy and external regulations and standards.
• Define the procedure for the preparation required of the organization for accreditation, licensing, and/or certification surveys.
• SLO # 3: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH INFORMATION REIMBURSEMENT METHODOLOGIES
• Apply policies and procedures for the use of clinical data required for reimbursement and prospective payment systems (PPS) in healthcare delivery.
• Verify accurate billing through coding, chargemaster, claims management, and bill reconciliation processes.
• Recognize established guidelines to comply with reimbursement and reporting requirements such as the National Correct Coding Initiative.
• Compile patient data and perform data quality reviews to validate code assignment and compliance with reporting requirements such as outpatient prospective payment systems.
• SLO # 4: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS
• Apply information system policies and procedures required by national health information initiatives on the healthcare delivery system.
• Apply current laws, accreditation, licensure, and certification standards related to health information initiatives from the national, state, local, and facility levels.
• Apply policies and procedures to comply with the changing regulations among various payment systems for healthcare services such as Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and so forth.
• Define the roles of various providers and disciplines throughout the continuum of healthcare and respond to their information needs.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: Describe general characteristics of the healthcare practice area, including past, present, and future utilization, if applicable.
• SLO # 2: Demonstrate an understanding of regulatory issues, including licensure and accreditation standards.
• Demonstrate an understanding of documentation requirements and practices.
• Demonstrate an understanding of reimbursement, payment, and other revenue requirements, practices, and issues.
• SLO # 3: Demonstrate an understanding of information management, including coding and classification, data and information flow, electronic information systems, and data sets.
• SLO # 4: Describe issues in information management, including coding and classification, data and information flow, electronic information systems, and data sets.
• SLO # 5: Demonstrate an understanding of Quality assessment and utilization management activities, risk management and legal concerns.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: Identify legal issues related to ownership, control, and confidentiality of health information.
• Become familiar with the types of laws that govern the healthcare industry.
• Understand the significance of statutes, administrative laws, and regulatory agencies with regard to the maintenance, use and disclosure of health information.
• Understand policies and procedures with regard to health information use and disclosure.
• Discuss the HIPAA Privacy Rule with regard to health information use and disclosure, including requirements implemented by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
• Describe types of medical identity theft and understand actions required by the Red Flags Rule.
• Identify legal issues relating to the workforce, including employees and the medical staff.
• SLO # 2: Apply and promote ethical standards of practice.
• Identify ethical principles and professional values that can guide health information management professionals who must confront and respond to ethical problems.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT AND CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS.
• Use and maintain electronic applications and work processes to support clinical classification and coding.
• Apply diagnosis codes and procedure codes using ICD-CM/PCS.
• Adhere to current regulations and established guidelines in code assignment.
• Ensure accuracy of diagnostic/procedural groupings such as Diagnosis related groups (DRG), Ambulatory payment classification (APC), and so on.
• Use and maintain applications and processes to support other clinical classification and nomenclature systems.
• Resolve discrepancies between coded data and supporting documentation.
• SLO # 2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT AND REIMBURSEMENT METHODOLOGIES.
• Understand policies and procedures for the use of clinical data required in reimbursement and prospective payment systems (PPS) in healthcare delivery.
• Use established guidelines to comply with reimbursement and reporting requirements such as the National Correct Coding Initiative.
• Comprehend the processes for compilation of patient data and the performance of data quality reviews to validate code assignment and compliance with reporting requirements such as outpatient prospective payment systems.
• Understand clinical vocabularies and terminologies used in the organization’s health information systems.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT AND CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS.
• Use and maintain electronic applications and work processes to support clinical classification and coding.
• Apply diagnosis codes using ICD-CM/PCS codes.
• Adhere to current regulations and established guidelines in code assignment.
• Ensure accuracy of diagnostic/procedural groupings such as DRG, APC, and so on.
• Adhere to current regulations and established guidelines in code assignment.
• Use and maintain applications and processes to support other clinical classification and nomenclature systems (such as ICD-10-CM, Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terminology (SNOMED), and so on.
• Resolve discrepancies between coded data and supporting documentation.
• SLO # 2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT AND REIMBURSEMENT METHODOLOGIES.
• Apply policies and procedures for the use of clinical data required in reimbursement and prospective payment systems (PPS) in healthcare delivery.
• Support accurate billing through coding, chargemaster, claims management, and bill reconciliation processes.
• Use established guidelines to comply with reimbursement and reporting requirements such as the National Correct Coding Initiative.
• Compile patient data and perform data quality reviews to validate code assignment and compliance with reporting requirements such as outpatient prospective payment systems.
• Contribute to the definitions for and apply clinical vocabularies and terminologies used in the organization’s health information systems.
• Verify timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data and data sources for patient care, management, billing reports, registries, and databases.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT AND CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS.
• Use and maintain electronic applications and work processes to support clinical classification and coding.
• Apply procedure codes using CPT/HCPCS.
• Adhere to current regulations and established guidelines in code assignment.
• Validate coding accuracy using clinical information found in the health record.
• Resolve discrepancies between coded data and supporting documentation.
• SLO # 2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT AND REIMBURSEMENT METHODOLOGIES.
• Use established guidelines to comply with reimbursement and reporting requirements such as the National Correct Coding Initiative.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH STATISTICS, BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT
• Abstract and maintain data for clinical indices/databases/registries
• Collect, organize, and present data for quality management, utilization management, risk management, and other related studies.
• Compute and interpret healthcare statistics.
• Apply Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes and policies.
• Use specialized databases to meet specific organization needs such as medical research and disease registries.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT, HEALTH DATA STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND STANDARDS.
• Collect and maintain health data (such as data elements, data sets, and databases).
• Conduct analysis to ensure documentation in the health record supports the diagnosis and reflects the patient’s progress, clinical findings, and discharge status.
• Apply policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy of health data.
• Contribute to the definitions for and apply clinical vocabularies and terminologies used in the organization’s health information systems.
• Verify timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data and data sources for patient care, management, billing reports, registries, and/or databases.
• SLO #2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT, HEALTH INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS.
• Monitor and apply organization-wide health record documentation guidelines.
• Apply policies and procedures to ensure organizational compliance with regulations and standards.
• Report compliance findings according to organizational policy.
• Maintain the accuracy and completeness of the patient record as defined by organizational policy and external regulations and standards.
• SLO #3: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT, CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS.
• Adhere to current regulations and established guidelines in code assignment.
• Validate coding accuracy using clinical information found in the health record.
• Use and maintain applications and processes to support other clinical classification and nomenclature systems (such as ICD-10-CM, SNOMED, and so on).
• SLO #4: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS.
• Differentiate the roles of various providers and disciplines throughout the continuum of healthcare and respond to their information needs.
• Use technology, including hardware and software, to ensure data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting of information.
• Use common software applications such as spreadsheets, databases, word processing, graphics, presentation, e-mail, and so on in the execution of work processes.
• Design and generate reports using appropriate software.
• SLO #5: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH SERVICES ORGANIZATION AND DELIVERY, PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL ISSUES.
• Apply policies and procedures for access and disclosure of personal health information.
• Use specialized software in the completion of HIM processes such as record tracking, release of information, coding, grouping, registries, billing, quality improvement, and imaging.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH STATISTICS, BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT.
• Abstract and report data for facility-wide quality management and performance improvement programs.
• Analyze clinical data to identify trends that demonstrate quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare.
• SLO # 2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES, INCLUDING HUMAN RESOURCES.
• Apply the fundamentals of team leadership.
• Apply the fundamentals of organizing and contributing to work teams and committees.
• Apply the fundamentals of conducting new staff orientation and training programs.
• Apply the fundamentals of conducting continuing education programs.
• Use quality improvement tools and techniques to monitor report and improve processes.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH DATA STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND USE.
• Collect and maintain health data (such as data elements, data sets, and databases).
• Conduct analysis to ensure documentation in the health record supports the diagnosis and reflects the patient’s progress, clinical findings, and discharge status.
• Apply policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy of health data.
• Contribute to the definitions for and apply clinical vocabularies and terminologies used in the organization’s health information systems.
• Verify timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data and data sources for patient care, management, billing reports, registries, and/or databases.
• SLO # 2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT.
• Recognize requirements for abstracting and reporting data for facility-wide quality management and performance improvement programs.
• SLO # 3: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES.
• Participate in the implementation of legal and regulatory requirements related to the health information infrastructure.
• Apply policies and procedures for access and disclosure of personal health information.
• Practice release of patient-specific data to authorized users.
• Recognize requirements for conducting privacy and confidentiality training programs.
• Investigate and recommend solutions to privacy issues/problems.
• Apply and promote ethical standards of practice.
• SLO # 4: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN RESOURCES.
• Apply the fundamentals of team leadership.
• Organize and contribute to work teams and committees.
• Recognize requirements for conducting new staff orientation and training programs.
• Recognize requirements for conducting continuing education programs.
• Recognize requirements for monitoring staffing levels and productivity standards for health information functions, and provide feedback to management and staff regarding performance.
• Communicate benchmark staff performance data.
• Prioritize job functions and activities.
• Use quality improvement tools and techniques to monitor, report and improve processes.
• SLO # 5: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCES.
• Make recommendations for items to include in budgets and contracts.
• Define the process for monitoring and ordering supplies needed for work processes.
• Describe the process for monitoring coding and revenue cycle processes.
• Recognize the process for recommending cost-saving and efficient means of achieving work processes and goals.
• Recognize the process required for contributing to work plans, policies, procedures, and resource requisitions in relation to job functions.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS
• Use technology, including hardware and software, to ensure data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting of information.
• Use common software applications such as spreadsheets, databases, word processing, graphics, presentation, and e-mail, in the execution of work processes.
• Use specialized software in the completion of HIT processes such as record tracking, release of information, coding, grouping, registries, billing, quality improvement, and imaging.
• Apply policies and procedures to the use of networks, including intranet and Internet applications to facilitate the electronic health record (EHR), personal health record (PHR), public health, and other administrative applications.
• SLO # 2: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF DATA, INFORMATION AND FILE STRUCTURES
• Apply knowledge of data base architecture and design (such as data dictionary, data modeling, data warehousing) to meet departmental needs.
• SLO # 3: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
• Use appropriate electronic or imaging technology for data/record storage.
• Query and generate reports to facilitate information retrieval.
• Design and generate reports using appropriate software.
• Maintain archival and retrieval systems for patient information stored in multiple formats.
• Coordinate, use, and maintain systems for document imaging and storage.
• SLO # 4: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF DATA SECURITY
• Apply confidentiality and security measures to protect electronic health information.
• Protect data integrity and validity using software or hardware technology.
• Apply departmental and organizational data and information system security policies.
• SLO # 5: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• Participate in the planning, design, selection, implementation, integration, testing, evaluation, and support for organization-wide information systems.
• Use the principles of ergonomics and human factors in work process design
• SLO # 6: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES
• Use quality improvement tools and techniques to monitor, report, and improve processes.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO # 1: DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT AND CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS.
• Use and maintain electronic applications and work processes to support clinical classification and coding.
• Apply diagnosis codes using ICD-CM/PCS.
• Apply procedure codes using Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)/Health Care Procedural Coding System (HCPCS).
• Ensure accuracy of diagnostic/procedural groupings such as Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG), Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APC) etc.
• Adhere to current regulations and established guidelines in code assignment.
• Validate coding accuracy using clinical information found in the health record.
• Use and maintain applications and processes to support other clinical classification and nomenclature systems (such as ICD-10-CM, SNOMED, and so on.)
• Resolve discrepancies between coded data and supporting documentation.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• SLO #1: Actively engage in intellectual inquiry beyond that required in order to pass a course of study (College Wide Learning Outcome – Area 4).
• Discuss and outline a proposal of study (that can be accomplished within one semester term) with a supervising instructor qualified within the discipline.
• Design an independent study (to be completed individually or by collaboration of a small group) to foster special knowledge, skills, and experience that are not available in any one regularly scheduled course.
• Use information resources to gather discipline-specific information.
• SLO #2: Utilize modes of analysis and critical thinking to apply theoretical perspectives and/or concepts in the major discipline of study to significant problems and/or educational activities (College Wide Learning Outcome – Area 3).
• Analyze and apply the knowledge, skills and experience that are involved in the independent study to theoretical perspectives and/or concepts in the major discipline of study.
• Explain the importance of the major discipline of study in the broader picture of society.
• SLO #3: Communicate a complex understanding of content matter of the major discipline of study (College Wide Outcome – Area 3).
• Demonstrate competence in the skills essential to mastery of the major discipline of study that are necessary to accomplish the independent study.
• SLO #4: Identify personal goals and pursue these goals effectively (College Wide Outcome – Area 4).
• Utilize skills from the “academic tool kit” including time management, study skills, etc., to accomplish the independent study within one semester term.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION OF PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE BEHAVIOR IN A FIELD OF STUDY RELATED ONE’S CAREER.(SLO 1)
• Understand the effects time, stress, and organizational management have on performance.
• Demonstrate an understanding of consistently practicing ethics and confidentiality in a workplace.
• Examine the career/life planning process and relate its relevancy to the student.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic communication tools and their appropriate use.
• Demonstrate an understanding of workplace etiquette.
• DESCRIBE THE CAREER/LIFE PLANNING PROCESS AND RELATE ITS RELEVANCY TO ONE'S CAREER.(SLO 2)
• Link personal goals to long term achievement.
• Display an understanding of creating a professional first impression.
• Understand how networking is a powerful job search tool.
• Understand necessary elements of a résumé.
• Understand the importance of interview preparation.
• Identify how continual learning increases career success.
• DEMONSTRATE APPLICATION OF INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE AND THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AS WRITTEN IN LEARNING OBJECTIVES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMPLOYER WORK SITE SUPERVISOR.(SLO 3)