HIM 210 Health Information Management Systems
This course focuses on the organization of healthcare delivery and the health information management profession. It emphasizes health record content, accrediting and regulatory standards, legal aspects of releasing health information, retention, and storage and retrieval systems. Students explore the fundamental concepts of information technology applied to healthcare from the perspectives of providers, payers, and consumers. Major topics include the electronic health record, health information systems, repositories and data bases, enterprise-wide systems, laboratory, radiology (PACs) systems, voice recognition, physician order entry, telemedicine, and decision support systems. Prerequisite: None.