Syllabus Sections
Publish Date
08/30/2018 17:59:07
Health Information Systems
HITT-1211
Credit Fall 2018
08/27/2018 - 12/16/2018
Course Information
Section 001
Distance Learning
ONL DIL
Mary Keeton
Office Hours
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2PM - 5pm
EVC 9408
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4pm - 5pm
EVC 9408
Course Requirements
WEEK |
Topics |
Assignment – Due Wed of Next Week |
Week 1 8/27/18 |
Orientation Syllabus and Schedule
Ch 1 Foundations of Health- care Informatics |
Read Ch 1
Submit all Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
Week 2 9/3/18
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Ch 2 Ethics
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Read Ch 2
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise
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Week 3 9/10 |
Ch 3 Electronic Health Records
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Read Ch 3
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise Complete Activity #1 |
Week 4 9/17 |
Ch 4 Information Infrastruc- ture |
Read Ch 4
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
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EXAM #1 Ch 1 – 3 |
Due 9-23-18 |
Week 5 9/24 |
Ch 5 Data & Information
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Read Ch 5
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
Week 6 10/1 |
Ch 7 Introduction to Research |
Read Ch 7
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
Week 7 10/8 |
Ch 8 Implementing Healthcare Information Systems |
Read Ch 8 Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise Complete Activity #2 |
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Week 8 10/15 |
Ch 9 Healthcare Informatics & Decision Support |
Read Ch 9
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
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Exam 2 Ch 4, 5, 7,8 |
Due 10-21-18 |
Week 9
10/22 |
Ch 10
Health Information Inter- operability
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Read Ch 10
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
Week 10
10/29 |
Ch 11 Using Healthcare Data & Information
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Read Ch 11
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise .
Complete Activity #3 |
Week 11
11-5-18 |
Ch 12 Privacy for Health Information |
Read ch 12
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
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Week 12 11-12 |
Ch 13 Security for Health Information |
Read Ch 13
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
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Exam 3 Ch 9-12 |
Due 11-18-18 |
Week 13 11/19
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Ch 14 Legal Health Records |
Read ch 14
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
Week 14 11/26 |
Ch 15 Consumer Health Informatics |
Read ch15
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
Week 15 12/3
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Ch 16, p. 472-481 Trends & Emerging Technologies |
Read ch 16 (472-481)
Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise |
Week 16 12/10 |
FINAL EXAM – Ch 13-16 |
Deadline 12-13-18 |
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Readings
TEXTBOOKS:
Introduction to Healthcare Informatics, 2nd Edition, Biedermann, Dolezel AHIMA Press ISBN: 9781584265283
Course Subjects
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introduction to health IT standards, health-related data structures, software applications and enterprise architecture in health care and public health.
Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of the course the student will be able to:
1. Describe the functions of the basic components of the personal computer to include hardware, software, networks, and Internet technologies.
2. Identify and discuss the impact of computers in healthcare in all areas within a facility.
3. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Internet, intranet, and extranet as used in healthcare.
4. Identify three common examples of database usage within the healthcare facility.
6. Develop a patient care scenario where a software application would be used to help in the caregiving of a patient to speed delivery of care and increase the quality of the level of care provided.
7. Describe the difference between raw facts and information as given within the healthcare setting
8. Identify the various data sources that populate the electronic health record
9. Identify the common data sets for reporting to the various agencies by most healthcare facilities that are under the Medicare and Medicaid mandates
10. List and give an example of each of the AHIMA Data Quality Model characteristics
11. Discuss the importance of data quality charts and graphs and why these can be effective instruments
12. Choose the appropriate field type for a data element
13. Assist in the development of a database
14. Develop and manage the data dictionary
15. Develop queries to retrieve data contained in the database
16. Read and understand an entity-relationship diagram
17. Identify the primary key contained in an entity
18. Differentiate between a data repository and a data warehouse
19. Expound on the ways that data mining can be useful
20. Complete simple normalization of data
21. Differentiate between the various types of data
22. Identify the steps in the both the system selection process and system implementation
23. Develop the request for proposal
24. Assist in the testing and implementation of the system
25. Assist in the system analysis process
26. Develop training materials and conduct training classes for users
27. Identify and recognize both internal and external sources of data
28. Determine how data should be backed up and protected from damage, and how to maintain software and hardware
29. Design and generate reports
30. Differentiate between data and information and identify information formats
31. Design screens
32. Develop data retention schedule
33. Determine storage needs for the facility
34. Identify the systems needed to support efficient operations in the HIM department
35. Differentiate between the various software products used in the HIM department
36. Improve the quality of the data within the health information management systems
37. Determine what administrative information system is needed for a particular task
38. Differentiate between the administrative information systems
39. Differentiate between a decision support system and an executive information system
40. Describe how administrative systems impact health information management practices
41. Differentiate between the various clinical information systems
42. Define clinical information system
43. Determine what clinical information system is needed to meet the needs of the facility
44. Determine what clinical information system is needed to meet the needs of the enterprise-wide organization
45. Make recommendations on the use and implementation of document management systems
46. Participate in the development and implementation of an electronic health record (EHR)
47. Explain the role of clinical vocabularies in the HER
48. Support the need for and address issues related to the HER
49. Describe what the EHR is and what it is not
50. Educate the provider on benefits of the HER
51. Justify the need for mapping
52. Identify the need for the multiple systems required to support the HER
53. Support the need for the personal health record
54. Assist in the selection of the type of personal health record to be used
55. Describe the role of the Office of the National Coordinator in the development of the health information exchange
56. Prepare for and address the issues related to the development of the health information exchange
57. Discuss meaningful use
58. Describe the national health information network
59. Compare and contrast the differences between front-end and back-end speech recognition technology from the health information management (transcription) viewpoint
60. Explain some of the benefits of using speech recognition technology when coupled with the computerized health record for clinical documentation.
61. Explain the process of dictation by the dictator in front-end speech recognition as well as the back-end process of editing by the transcriptionist
62. Provide an example of a bigram in the language model when building the vocabulary in speech recognition technology software
63. Educate staff on security issues
64. Recommend security measures
65. Develop policies and procedures on security practices
66. Participate in risk analysis
67. Assist in the development of a security plan
68. Monitor compliance with security plan
69. Control access to protected health information
70. Conduct audit for security violation
71. Develop policies and procedures related to privacy
72. Develop password management plan
73. Discuss various technology-driven roles performed by health information management (HIM) professions
74. Discuss information technology tasks performed by HIM professionals in traditional and nontraditional settings
75. Discuss the role of Knowledge Clusters and Domains, Subdomains, and Tasks on the HIM educational process
76. Describe the skills of the HIM professionals
77. Differentiate between the two types of computer-assisted coding
78. Discuss pros and cons of computer-assisted coding
79. Describe use of mobile health in healthcare
80. Describe usage of social networking in healthcare
81. Describe how technology is used to provide patient safety
82. Describe how business intelligence is used in healthcare
COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:
The curriculum of the Austin Community College Health Information Technology program is designed to meet or exceed the professional course content as published in the AHIMA Model Curriculum that includes the HIM Entry-Level Competencies and Knowledge Clusters. This course addresses the specific Domains, Subdomains, and Competencies identified below:
Domain I: Health Data Management
Subdomain A: Health Data Structure, Content, and Standards
1. Collect and maintain health data (such as data elements, data sets, and databases).
2. Conduct analysis to ensure that documentation in the health record supports the diagnosis and reflects the patient’s progress, clinical findings, and discharge status.
3. Apply policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy of health data.
4. Verify timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and appropriateness of data and data sources for patient care, management, billing reports, registries, and/or databases.
Subdomain B: Healthcare Information Requirements and Standards
- Monitor and apply organization-wide health record documentation guidelines.
Subdomain I.C Data Governance
- Apply policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy and integrity of health data.
Subdomain I. D. Data Management
- Collect and maintain health data.
- Apply graphical tools for data presentations.
Subdomain I. E. Secondary Data Sources
- Identify and use secondary data presentations.
- Validate the reliability and use secondary data sources.
Subdomain III. A. Health Information Technologies
- Utilize software in the completion of HIM processes.
- Explain policies and procedures of networks including intranet to facilitate clinical and administrative applications.
Subdomain III. B. Information Management Strategic Planning
- Explain the process used in the selection and implementation of health information management systems.
- Utilize health information to support enterprise wide decision support for strategic planning.
Subdomain III. C. Analytics and Decisions Support
- Explain analytics and decision support.
- Apply report generation technologies to facilitate decision-making.
Domain IV: Information Technology & Systems
Subdomain A: Information and Communication Technologies
1. Use technology, including hardware and software, to ensure data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting of information.
2. Use common software applications such as spreadsheets, databases, word processing, graphics presentation, e-mail, and so on in the execution of work processes.
3. Use specialized software in the completion of HIM processes such as record tracking, release of information, coding, grouping, registries, billing, quality improvement, and imaging.
4. Apply policies and procedures to the use of networks, including intranet and Internet applications, to facilitate the electronic health record (EHR), personal health record (PHR), public health, and other administrative applications.
5. Participate in the planning, design, selection, implementation, integration, testing, evaluation, and support for EHRs.
Subdomain B: Data, Information, and File Structures
1. Apply knowledge of database architecture and design (such as data dictionary) to meet departmental needs.
Subdomain D: Data Security
1. Apply confidentiality and security measures to protect electronic health information.
2. Protect data integrity and validity using software or hardware technology.
3. Apply departmental and organizational data and information system security policies.
4. Use and summarize data compiled from audit trails and data quality monitoring programs