AUD 1200 Health Information Management
This course is a review of informatics and technology for HIM as well as a review of JCAHO standards. This course provides an introduction to project management tools and statistical tools as well as an introduction to abstracting/collecting data for internal/external use. Students will learn to calculate and interpret healthcare statistics and evaluate software and coding systems. There is a discussion of commercial billing and auditing systems, homegrown systems, coding systems, and antifraud software. Students are introduced to the verification of charges based on documentation in several levels of healthcare services.