Description
This course provides practical experience with health information management in a hospital and alternative health care setting. Students practice all aspects of health information management functions, to include qualitative and quantitative analysis, release of information, review of legal issues, health statistics, classification and indexing systems, quality assurance, utilization review, and risk management. An introduction to the supervisory management function is also provided. The student will assist the Clinical Supervisor with managerial functions. Students will spend one hundred and twenty (120) hours in an acute care setting and forty-eight (48) hours in an alternative health care setting. Prerequisites: HIT201, HIT210, HIT211 and senior status.