Syllabus
Health Information Systems

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

  • M
    2PM - 5pm
    EVC 9408
  • T W
    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

 

 

Ch 2 Ethics

 

Read Ch 2

 

Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise

 

 

Week 3

9/10

 

Ch 3  Electronic Health

Records

 

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

 

 

 

 

EXAM #1 Ch 1 – 3

Due 9-23-18

 

Week 5

9/24

 

Ch 5 Data & Information

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 8

10/15

Ch 9

Healthcare Informatics &

Decision Support

Read Ch 9

 

Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise

 

 

 

 

Exam 2 Ch 4, 5, 7,8

Due 10-21-18

 

Week 9

 

10/22

 

Ch 10

 

Health Information Inter-

operability

 

Read Ch 10

 

Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise

 

Week 10

 

10/29

 

Ch 11  

Using Healthcare Data

& Information

 

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

 

 

 

Week 12

11-12

Ch 13

Security for Health

Information

Read Ch 13

 

Submit answers to Check Your Understanding Exercises & Chapter Review Exercise

 

 

 

 

Exam 3 Ch 9-12

Due 11-18-18

 

Week 13

11/19

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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

  1. Monitor and apply organization-wide health record documentation guidelines.

 

Subdomain I.C Data Governance

  1. Apply policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy and integrity of health data.

 

Subdomain I. D. Data Management

  1. Collect and maintain health data.
  2. Apply graphical tools for data presentations.

 

Subdomain I. E. Secondary Data Sources

  1. Identify and use secondary data presentations.
  2. Validate the reliability and use secondary data sources.

 

Subdomain III. A. Health Information Technologies

  1. Utilize software in the completion of HIM processes.
  2. Explain policies and procedures of networks including intranet to facilitate clinical and administrative applications.

 

Subdomain III. B. Information Management Strategic Planning

  1. Explain the process used in the selection and implementation of health information management systems.
  2. Utilize health information to support enterprise wide decision support for strategic planning.

 

Subdomain III. C. Analytics and Decisions Support

  1. Explain analytics and decision support.
  2. 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