If you do well in this course, you will be able to:

1. Understand the development of the health information management profession from its beginning in 1928 until the present
2. Understand how professional practice must evolve to accommodate changes in the healthcare environment
3. Understand the responsibilities of healthcare professionals
4. Become familiar with the purpose and structure of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
5. Understand the certification processes of AHIMA
6. Define the term health record
7. Understand the barrios uses of the health record
8. Identify the different users of the health record and its important to each user
9. Describe the functions of the health record
10. Describe the components of health record data quality
11. Understand the patient’s right to privacy and the requirements for maintaining confidentially of patient-identifiable health information
12. Recognize the importance of information security
13. Identify the roles and responsibilities of health information management professional in the development and maintenance of health record systems
14. Understand the content of health records in various healthcare settings
15. Recognize the documentation requirements of accreditation organizations and state and federal government agencies
16. Describe the different formats used for health records in healthcare organizations
17. Understand the advantages of electronic health records over paper-based and hybrid health records
18. Describe the purpose of healthcare data sets
19. Explain the importance of healthcare data sets and standards
20. Identify the common health information standardized data sets
21. Explain the need for electronic data and data interchange standards
22. Explain the healthcare data needs in an electronic environment
23. Discuss how data standards are developed
24. Identify well-known standards that support electronic health record (EHR) systems
25. Discuss how data standards support the development of EHR systems
26. Identify prominent health information standards development organizations
27. Recognize the impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) on the
    development of health informatics standards
28. Explain the relationship of core data elements to healthcare informatics standards in electronic environments
29. Describe current federal initiatives to support EHR development and to create a national health information network
30. Identify the typical functions performed by the health information management (HIM) department
31. Understand different operational techniques for managing traditional HIM functions
32. Identify techniques used in the storage and maintenance of health records
33. Understand the interrelationship between the HIM department and other key departments within the healthcare organization
34. Describe the purpose, development, and maintenance of registries and indexes such as the master patient index, disease index, and operation indexes
35. Discuss the function and responsibilities of common HIM support services, including cancer and trauma registries, birth certificate completion, and statistical and research services
36. Understand several techniques used in the management of the HIM department, such as policy and procedure development and the budgeting process
37. Distinguish between primary and secondary data and between patient identifiable and aggregate data
38. Identify the internal and external users of secondary data
39. Compare the facility-specific indexes commonly found in hospitals
40. Describe the registries used in hospitals according to purpose, methods of case definition and case finding, data collection methods, reporting and follow-up, and pertinent laws and regulations affecting registry operations
41. Define the terms pertinent to each type of secondary record or database
42. Discuss agencies for approval and education and certification for cancer, immunization, and trauma registries
43. Distinguish among healthcare databases in terms of purpose and content
44. Compare manual and automated methods of data collection and vendor systems with facility-specific systems
45. Assess data quality issues in secondary records
46. Recognize appropriate methods for ensuring data security and the confidentiality of secondary records
47. Identify the role of the HIM professional in creating and maintaining secondary records
48. Describe the evolution of the U.S. healthcare system
49. Identify and describe the regulators of healthcare, both government and nongovernmental
50. Identify legislation that affects or regulates healthcare
51. Distinguish between the various healthcare organizations responsible for providing healthcare
52. Identify mechanisms of healthcare financing
53. Identify professionals and their roles in the healthcare system
54. Describe key forces that have influenced the evolution of the patient record
55. Identify public and private sector initiatives and organizations in health information technology and health
    information exchange
56. Understand the role and importance of (administrative and clinical) data content and messaging standards in achieving the goals of transforming the healthcare system
57. Discuss the importance of data in the care of the patient
58. Describe key functions, requirements and expectations for electronic health records
59. Describe the background of today’s health-IT landscape including the HITECH Act, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Health Information Exchange (HIE), and Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

Possible Assignments Include: (Subject to change each semester. The actual assignments are available in the Syllabus in the Blackboard course site on the first day of classes.)

Your final grade may be based on the following scale. Please note that you must pass both exams in order to pass the course, regardless of your scores on the other assignments.

There are 2 exams in this course.

Last Updated: May 16, 2013