HIT 265 - Health Informatics

Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course provides an overview of health care informatics, with a concentration on computerized Health Information Management (HIM) functions and Electronic Health Record (EHR). Students will be introduced to data integrity, classification systems, clinical vocabularies, data dictionaries, and data sets that will be carried over to other courses within the program. Emerging technologies in health care will be explored, as well as selection and implementation of software applications and security strategies. This course replaces HIT 312.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in CSC 116 and HIT 355.

The prerequisite for HIT-355 is only for students in the HIT program. If you are taking this course as a CIM student, the only prerequisite to this course is CSC-116.
SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Identify policies to achieve data integrity.
Identify strategies to achieve data integrity.
Explain the use of classification systems, clinical vocabularies, and nomenclatures.
Describe components of data dictionaries and data sets.
Apply security strategies to health information.
Identify compliance requirements through the health information life cycle.
Use technologies for health information management.
Summarize standards for the exchange of health information.
Identify standards for exchange of health information.
Apply legal processes impacting health information.
Identify the impact of policy on health care.
Describe consumer engagement activities.