HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT COURSES - HIM HTM 2000. Introduction to Health Information Systems and Settings (3) F Introduction to the health information profession. Job duties, functions, and the professional organization are discussed. Health care settings, numbering and filing systems and equipment, master patient indexes, health information documentation requirements, discharge analysis and incomplete chart control are presented. Prerequisites: HTHS 1101 and HTHS LSI 110. HIM 2250. Health Care Privacy and Security (3) The HIPAA privacy and security law, institutional review boards and human subjeds research, development of policies and procedures for privacy and security, and rdease of information are discussed. HTM 2300. Diagnosis Coding (3) F ICD-9-CM and CPT dassification, conventions and coding procedures are introduced and practiced. Prerequisite: HTHS LSI 110 and HTHS 1111 or equivalent. HIM 2320. Ambulatory and Physician Office Coding (3) Sp CPT dassification, conventions and coding procedures are introduced and practiced. Abstracting medical information from health documentation for coding facility outpatients, physidan and professional billing is presented, discussed and practiced. Prerequisite: HIM 2300. HIM 2330. Classification Systems Topics and Reimbursement Issues (2) Discussion of issues parallel to or founded in the use of dassification systems: Federal reimbursement systems, coding compliance, quality auditing, peer review organizations, and database reporting. HTM 2410. ICD-10-PCS Coding (2) ICD-10-PCS coding, conventions and guidelines are introduced and practiced. Students will gain exposure to procedure coding using the ICD-10-PCS system for hospital inpatient claims. Prerequisite: HIM 2300. HTM 2500. Healthcare Database Management Sc Security (3) F An introduction to database monitoring, maintenance and use. Data definition, vocabularies, terminologies and dictionaries are discussed. Clinical abstracting and report writing are practiced. A working knowledge of database management is developed. The HIPAA security law, development of polices and procedures to enforce the security rule are covered. Prerequisite: TBETE1700 or TBE TBI 702 or TBE TB 1502. HIM 2861. (2nd Year) Professional Practice Experiences (2) F Student's final experience in the health care setting. Skills and learning from the classroom and laboratory are reinforced and practiced. The student observes in other health care settings. Projects assigned give the student expertise in technical functions, e.g., ICD-9-CM, CPT, and other coding systems. Prerequisite: HIM 2000. HTM 2862. (2nd Year) Professional Practice Experiences (2) Sp Student's final experience in the health care setting. Skills and learning from the classroom and laboratory are reinforced and practiced. The student observes in other health care settings. Projects assigned give the student expertise in technical functions, e.g., ICD-9-CM, CPT, and other coding systems. Prerequisite: HIM 2861. HIM 2863. Professional Practice Experience in Coding (1) Student's final experience in the coding setting. Skills and learning from the classroom and laboratory are reinforced and practiced in a simulated setting. HTM 3000. Computer Applications in Health Care (3) F A survey of the clinical, research, and administrative applications of computers in the health care industry from which health care information is currently derived. The role of this technology and of the data colleded in accomplishing the objedives and procedures of the principle functional areas in health care organizations is emphasized as are the interrelationships of the organizational units with respect to data acquisition, storage, analysis, retrieval, and use. HTM 3200. Epidemiology and Biostatistics (3) F, Sp The goals and objectives of epidemiology, its policy and procedure, and its foundation and support in health care iriformation are the focus of this course. Investigation of an epidemic, measures of mortality inddence and prevalence, measures of risk, biological variability, probability, screening, sampling, statistical significance, corrdation, multiple regression, retrospective and prospective studies, and survival analysis are discussed. Advanced techniques for the statistical analysis of institutional case-mix and quality improvement data are presented. Prerequisite: Must meet WSU Quantitative Literacy requirement. HTM 3300. Introduction to Quality Improvement in Health Care (3) F, Sp Quality assessment, disease processes, risk management, and utilization review systems are presented to the student with an emphasis upon integration. TQM/CQI processes are examined and practiced. HTM 3400. Health Care Networks and Databases (3) F A comprehensive introdudion to health care application development, including local and wide area networks, the internet and intranets, database strudure, database tools, data management, and information management. Prerequisite: 1ST 3110. HTM 3450. Health Care Systems Analysis and Design (3) Sp A comprehensive introdudion to the planning, design, and construction of health care information systems, using the systems development life cyde and other appropriate design tools. Prerequisite: HIM 3400. HTM 3500. Biomedical Research Support (2) F Design concepts and information systems used in biomedical research and investigation by drug companies, genetic engineering firms, academic institutions, and individual researchers and the support of same by health information professionals are discussed. The major national research policy-making bodies (NIH, NCHS, CDC) and their research protocols are reviewed. The student also learns what techniques and resources facilitate biomedical literature searches and how to assist a researcher in the pursuit of published information. An overview of the development, strudure, and management of a health care institutional medical library is presented. HIM 4100. Health Information Services Management (3) Sp Management issues of health information services departments are discussed and worked through with reference to planning information services, organizing work force, procedures, and resources, staffing work units with qualified personnel, influencing information services teams performance, controlling/evaluating health information services performance and products, and resolving organizational conflid involving information issues. Background is developed to facilitate evaluation of a vended system's ability to meet health care information applications, objectives and procedural requirements. "Entrepreneurial" skill is developed to lead organizations in finding solutions to their information management problems. Prerequisite: HAS 3260. Weber State University 2011 -2012 Catalog