HIT101 — Health Information Technology
This course introduces the student to the contents of the health record in paper- and electronic-based formats. The student will analyze, synthesize and evaluate the contents of the health record gaining a detailed understanding of documentation requirements, health care data sets, data monitoring and compliance reporting, data definitions, vocabularies, terminologies, nomenclatures, and dictionaries. The student will comprehend the difference between data and information, classification systems and nomenclatures, and primary and secondary data sources. Through hands-on experiences the student will gain a detailed understanding of health information specialty systems for release of information (ROI), coding, chart management, registries, etc.