2022–2023 CATALOG AND STUDENT HANDBOOK COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 117 HIM3304 Financial Management of Health Information Services 40 hours, 4 credits This course explores the healthcare finance principles required to manage a health information department, service, or project. Students take part in a departmental operating, personnel, and capital budget process. Opportunities for the health information professional’s role as well as external and internal influences on healthcare financial success are explored. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM3360 Health Data and Policy Management 40 hours, 4 credits This course prepares students for the assessment and oversight of healthcare data and policy management in healthcare settings. Students evaluate various data standards and data management, compare stakeholders within the industry, and assess disaster recovery methods. Students learn how to evaluate health record content requirements, various classification systems, clinical vocabularies, and nomenclatures. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM3412 Project Management 40 hours, 4 credits This course explores the application of general principles of project management and methodologies in healthcare. Focus is on the role of a project manager. Students learn to implement project management techniques and oversee and manage project planning activities and team members to facilitate team outcomes. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM3429 Health Law and Compliance 40 hours, 4 credits This course prepares students to be knowledgeable in federal and state laws and regulations and regulatory agencies requirements impacting healthcare settings. Students have the opportunity to evaluate the components of healthcare compliance programs, monitor adherence, and identify and recommend strategies to mitigate risk. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM3515 Health Information Leadership and Management 40 hours, 4 credits This course prepares students for leadership and management roles within a healthcare organization. Students identify and apply management skills needed to lead health information services in a variety of settings and participate in organization-wide activities. Topics explored include staff development and training, teamwork, presentation skills, change management strategies, performance measurement and improvement tools, and ethical decision-making. Prerequisites: HIM3304 Financial Management of Health Information Services; HIM3810 Human Resource Management in Health Information HIM3522 Electronic Health Record Application 70 hours, 4 credits This lab-based course explores the technology and applications utilized in the electronic health record (EHR). Students examine the health information record life cycle and the electronic record workflow process. Projects are completed to simulate real-world activities that occur in the health information department and healthcare facility. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM3710 Advanced Quality Management in Healthcare 40 hours, 4 credits This course examines the role of quality management in healthcare. Topics include quality management models, tools, and metrics used to assess healthcare performance. Emphasis is on the evaluation of these methods and tools in demonstrating the outcomes and effectiveness in improving patient care, quality of services, safety, reduction of risk, disease management processes, and utilization and resource management. Students explore the role and impact of governing and accrediting bodies on healthcare quality initiatives. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM3810 Human Resource Management in Health Information 40 hours, 4 credits This course is the study of human resource principles in the management and supervision of human capital within various healthcare organization settings, including specific evaluation and application of human resources within and relating to health information management functions. Students are exposed to approaches, techniques, and future trends in the management of personnel in healthcare. This course includes a study of employment laws, workforce education and training, performance standards and evaluation, job analysis, labor analytics, benchmarking, trends and market analysis, wage and salary administration, human resource budget analysis, contract management, ergonomic principles, and cost-benefit analysis of human resource needs. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM3930C Healthcare Research and Statistics 60 hours, 4 credits This course prepares students to perform statistical calculations and the analysis and presentation of statistical data related to healthcare, including population health. Topics covered include data collection, data interpretation, reporting, and presentation of descriptive statistics in patient care data studies. Students explore research methodologies and design used in healthcare-related research. Mathematical statistics concepts such as probability, normal distribution, predictive statistics, hypothesis formation, and measures of variation are included as well as the essential concept of data integrity. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM4121 Privacy and Security in Health Information 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides an in-depth analysis of strategies relating to privacy and security in healthcare. Topics covered include organizational requirements under HIPAA pertaining to policies, procedures, release of information, and mandated reporting. Students learn how to safeguard patient information through various security measures, as well as the implications when a patient’s rights have been violated. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM4135 Advanced Revenue Cycle Management 40 hours, 4 credits This course prepares students for the management of the interdisciplinary approach to revenue cycle management. Topics include healthcare reimbursement methodologies and models, reimbursement guidelines, regulatory requirements, and evaluation of diagnostic and procedure codes and groupings. Students evaluate the effectiveness of clinical documentation integrity programs and coding compliance plans through benchmarking and auditing. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM4515 Advanced Health Information Leadership and Management 40 hours, 4 credits This course builds on the skills learned in Health Information Leadership and Management and prepares students to evaluate the management skills techniques and tools for management roles in a healthcare organization. Students leverage data-driven decision-making tools, examine behaviors that embrace cultural diversity, and have opportunities to analyze workflow process concepts, productivity, change management theories, and compliance to increase their range of management and leadership skills in preparation for a role in health information administration. Prerequisite: HIM3515 Health Information Leadership and Management HIM4624C Advanced Data Analytics and Informatics in Healthcare 60 hours, 4 credits This lab-based course uses patient information and secondary data sources in the analysis and reporting of information to be used in healthcare-related decision-making. The course includes data analysis stages, information governance, and the management of information. Stakeholders of healthcare data analysis are explored. Additional concepts include the integrity, transformation, visualization, and exchange of data. Prerequisite: HIM3930C Healthcare Research and Statistics HIM4945 Professional Practice Experience in Health Information Management 90 hours, 3 credits This course allows students to gain professional practice experience in a health information administrator role through a combination of 60 hours of externally supervised professional practice experience activities, including a project with a healthcare-related site and virtual and simulated experiences within the course. The experiences are designed to provide students the opportunity to have a variety of experiences and utilize healthcare-related technology in various health information services and healthcare work settings. Students have the opportunity for review in preparation for the AHIMA RHIA exam. Prerequisites: HIM4515 Advanced Health Information Leadership and Management; Must be completed in student’s final quarter Corequisite: HIM4966 Health Information Management Capstone HIM4966 Health Information Management Capstone 30 hours, 3 credits This course provides the opportunity for students to demonstrate mastery of the Health Information Management programmatic student learning outcomes and competencies obtained throughout the program. Through a case study project, students demonstrate their ability to integrate theory, practical experience, and transferable skills learned throughout the program in real life-based assessment activities. Prerequisites: Must have passed all other HIM bachelor courses; Must be completed in student’s final quarter Corequisite: HIM4945 Professional Practice Experience in Health Information Management HSA1022 Foundations of Medical Administration 40 hours, 4 credits This course will explore the scope and dynamics of a career in medical administration and the skills necessary to be successful both in the Medical Administrative Assistant program and profession. This course will emphasize professionalism, communication, and medical terminology. The importance of maintaining patient privacy and handling patient situations ethically and professionally will be developed. Pre- or corequisite: HSC1531 Medical Terminology HSA1050 Customer Service in Healthcare 10 hours, 1 credit This will prepare students to deliver outstanding customer service in a healthcare setting by providing them with an understanding of the factors that influence the perceptions of external and internal customers. Topics covered in this course include the psychology of patients, customer service in a diverse world, listening skills, and effective communication techniques. Prerequisite: None ALL CONTENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY ADDENDUM
