Designed to prepare students for a career in coding, Principles of Health Information Management provides an introduction to the HIM function in hospitals including the structure and use of health information, health record data management, health record documentation, healthcare delivery systems, and regulatory and compliance issues.
Principles of Health Information Management
Cengage Learning
$220.00
Overview
Designed to prepare students for a career in coding, Principles of Health Information Management provides an introduction to the HIM function in hospitals including the structure and use of health information, health record data management, health record documentation, healthcare delivery systems, and regulatory and compliance issues.This course also provides an overview of key HIM topics including computer systems, privacy and security, management of healthcare data sets, research and regulatory compliance issues.
Course objectives:
- Introduce health information management concepts common to allied health professionals.
- Describe characteristics of health care delivery and settings in the United States.
- Delineate career opportunities for health information management professionals.
- Describe types of patient records, including documentation issues associated with each.
- Describe numbering and filing systems and record storage and circulation methods, including the electronic health record.
- Explain indexes, registers, and health data collection.
- Introduce legal aspects of health information management.
- Provide an overview of coding and reimbursement issues.
- Compare paper and electronic health record systems.
The level of effort to complete this course, start to finish, is equivalent to 10 CEUs and should take you approximately 10-30 hours to complete. Remember: You have access to the course materials for the full 16-week enrollment period and we encourage you to re-review any materials that are helpful to you.
Certificate of Completion
Upon successful completion of the course work, student will be able to download a Libman Education Certificate of Completion. The Certificate of Completion will list the course as awarding 10 CEUs.
Course Features
• Interactive, online, self-paced instruction
• Ebook integrated into the course and included in the price
• 10 lessons
• Student’s experience will vary but 20-40 hours should be allowed for completion
• Online access, anywhere in the world with Internet access
• Course available for 16 weeks from initial enrollment
• Online, self-paced instruction
• Non-lab course
• Multimedia course delivery incorporating video and audio presentations
• Structured lesson plan which includes Check list, Objectives, Presentation, and Quiz to ensure mastery of material
• Final exam
• No experience required and no prerequisites!

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The ebook for this course is included in the tuition. There are no additional books to purchase.
Essentials Of Health Information Management: Principles And Practices, Fifth Edition by Mary Jo Bowie, MS, BS, AAS, RHIA.
This book delivers all the latest updates, mapping key content directly to CAHIIM standards for data and information governance, electronic health records, data integrity and security, ICD-10-CM implementation, HIPAA rules, and more.
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