OFFT 2050 - Introduction to Health Information

1. Healthcare delivery systems
2. Health information management professionals
3. Health care settings
4. Medical office management
5. Database design
6. Indexes, registers, and health data collection
7. Legal aspects of health information management

1. define the healthcare delivery system’s history, healthcare delivery, continuum of care, facility organization, and licensure, regulation, and accreditation.
2. identify health information management professionals’ careers, ethical standards of practice, and professional organizations.
3. distinguish between the various healthcare settings.
4. identify the historical developments of data quality management, performance improvement, risk management, and utilization management.
5. identify the representative types of statistics found in health care.
6. define electronic health record systems, health information exchange, information and database systems, and components of electronic health record systems used in healthcare.
7. analyze database design and its role in the information systems life cycle.
8. identify the legal aspects of health information including civil and public law, sources of law, maintaining the patient records, HIPAA, and release of protected health information.
9. differentiate between ethics, morals, values, etiquette, and law.
10. identify clinical classification systems, third-party payers, reimbursement methodologies, revenue cycle management, and fraud and abuse.
11. identify the general principles of management: planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and leading.
12. identify the general principles of human resource management: employment, employee rights, supervision, and workforce diversity.

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