Health Information Management (HIMA)

HIMA200 Legal Aspects of Health Information Management (3 Health Information semester hours) This course focuses on the legal system and procedures, ethics, control Management (HIMA) and use of patient-specific health information. Student will analyze the major external forces affecting the HIM professional’s ability and HIMA100 Medical Terminology (3 semester hours) responsibility to manage patient-specific health information. In addition This course is a basic study of the professional language of medicine. it also addresses specialty matters such as healthcare fraud and abuse It is designed to include word construction, pronunciation, spelling, in health information management (HIM). Students will examine the definition and use of terms related to all areas of medical science, impact that e-mail, digital imaging, telemedicine, and the Internet are hospital service and health related professions. The course uses a having on health records, and analyze laws, regulations and standards systems based approach that provides students with the skills and related to patient confidentiality and privacy.(Prerequisite: HIMA110) knowledge necessary to derive meaning from common medical terms. View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ Students will deconstruct medical word construction and language, as details.html?c=HIMA200) to find out details about each course well as the derivation, roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Various structures including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot and organization of bodily systems will also be examined. of the syllabi, and session dates. View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ details.html?c=HIMA100) to find out details about each course HIMA220 Classification Systems I (3 semester hours) including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot This course will introduce the student to the principles of taxonomy. of the syllabi, and session dates. The course will include purposes of classifying diseases, clinical vocabularies, and terminologies/nomenclatures. The interaction of HIMA110 Introduction to Health Information Management (3 different Prospective Payment Systems with classification systems will semester hours) be emphasized. Data quality, the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data The purpose of this course is to introduce the students in Health Set as well as coding/sequencing guidelines and advanced topics Information Management to the historical development of the health in diagnosis and procedural coding. (Prerequisites: BIOL201 and care field with emphasis on the organizational structure of health HIMA100) institutions: federal, state, local agencies and allied health associations. View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ The course also addresses the theoretical and practical applications of details.html?c=HIMA220) to find out details about each course health information management, the Health Information Department, including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot its functions, and an overview of the American Health Information of the syllabi, and session dates. Management Association (AHIMA). The course includes definitions of, standards for, and the development of the health record (both HIMA230 Classification Systems II (3 semester hours) electronic and paper-based) as to content, format, evaluation, This course will introduce the student to the principles of taxonomy. completion, legal and regulatory aspects and automation. The course The course will include purposes of classifying procedures, clinical content also consists of numbering systems and methods; the use vocabularies, and terminologies/nomenclatures. The course will of accessory equipment and technology; conversion systems; the include purposes of coding for professional services, ambulatory master patient index; filing systems and control; evaluation methods; services and procedures. The course will properly instruct the student electronic health records, and supplies and equipment. Documentation on the proper usage of CPT and HCPCS code books. The interaction issues, along with indexes, registers, and health data collection are also of different code systems such as the Prospective Payment Systems introduced. (PPS) with classification systems will be emphasized. Data quality, the View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ UACDS as well as coding/sequencing guidelines will be examined. details.html?c=HIMA110) to find out details about each course Coding and indexing of procedures using various classification systems including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot and nomenclatures. The interaction of different Prospective Payment of the syllabi, and session dates. Systems with classification systems and data quality will be emphasized. (Prerequisite: HIMA220) View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ details.html?c=HIMA230) to find out details about each course including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot of the syllabi, and session dates.

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HIMA240 Healthcare Reimbursement Methodologies (3 semester HIMA350 Compliance (3 semester hours) hours) The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the concept This course provides students with a foundation of the basics of health of Quality and the process of Quality Improvement across the Health insurance and public funding programs, managed care contracting, Care continuum. This course focuses on the history and evolution of and payment for services. The content focuses on health insurance quality, its terms, principles, theories, and practices. The student is plans, government-sponsored healthcare programs, managed introduced to a diverse collection of methods of improving quality, care plans, fee schedules, resource-based relative value system for including but not limited to continuous Quality Improvement and Total physician payment and prospective payment for various inpatient Quality Management, and to the guidelines for implementing quality settings. Students will examine various reimbursement methodologies, management and the continuous quality improvement processes. and the interconnection between clinical coding, compliance, and Students will also be exposed to new cutting edge technologies that reimbursement. Within this, revenue life cycle management will be impact the quality improvement efforts/interventions in health care studied and its impact on provider financial stability. delivery that make quality health care more safe, timely, effective, View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ equitable, efficient, and patient-centered. details.html?c=HIMA240) to find out details about each course View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot details.html?c=HIMA350) to find out details about each course of the syllabi, and session dates. including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot of the syllabi, and session dates. HIMA250 Healthcare Delivery Systems and Documentation (3 semester hours) HIMA360 Health Informatics Project and Enterprise Management (3 This course will introduce students to the healthcare delivery systems semester hours) including organization, accreditation, licensure, and regulatory This Project Management course examines project management in agencies. Students will examine the historic development, organization theory and practice and the roles and responsibilities of the health and characteristics of the health care delivery systems; current payment information project manager. The course offers a practical approach to and reimbursement systems for each healthcare delivery systems; managing projects, focusing on organizing, planning, and controlling accrediting agencies applicable to health care; the functions of health the efforts of the project. Additionally, this course covers project, care providers; organizational patterns of health care facilities; medical enterprise, financial and contract managements in a health information staff organization and bylaws. The work of accrediting, licensing, and environment. Students will examine system selection processes and certifying agencies, such as that of the Joint Commission, the American develop negotiating skills in the selection process. The principles and Osteopathic Association, Medicare, and Medicaid will be discussed in approaches to the assessment of quality in health care and how this detail for each health care area. impacts the role of the health information manager will be examined. View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ details.html?c=HIMA250) to find out details about each course details.html?c=HIMA360) to find out details about each course including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot of the syllabi, and session dates. of the syllabi, and session dates.

HIMA310 Electronics Health Records Fundamentals (3 semester HIMA410 Informatics and Analytics (3 semester hours) hours) This course offers an overview of the field of health informatics and This course examines the emerging technology of Electronic Health analytics by providing students with the fundamental knowledge Records through conceptual theory of health information systems of the concepts of health informatics applications as they relate to used in health care delivery systems including terminology and the collection, storage, retrieval, communication and optimal use of essential concepts of health information systems. An overview of health related data and how technology can be used in the delivery of varied automated administrative, clinical and financial systems is given. health care. The basic principles of health informatics and analytics that Additionally, the course covers structure of electronic health records govern communication systems, clinical decisions, information retrieval, (EHRs). Content includes overview of health care industry’s transitioning telemedicine, bioinformatics and evidence based medicine will be to electronic health record systems, components of EHRs, technologies explored. used for input into EHRs, and privacy and security issues affecting View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ access to and use of patient information. details.html?c=HIMA410) to find out details about each course View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot details.html?c=HIMA310) to find out details about each course of the syllabi, and session dates. including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot of the syllabi, and session dates.

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HIMA460 Healthcare Data Management and Governance (3 semester hours) This course is designed to give the student an insight into the procedures and techniques that can be used to analyze health care data. The course will focus on the "how to" of systems by demonstrating fundamental skills and techniques that can be applied immediately to the management and governance of healthcare data. This course covers fundamentals of health care workflow process analysis and redesign as a necessary component of complete practice automation. View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ details.html?c=HIMA460) to find out details about each course including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot of the syllabi, and session dates.

HIMA497 Health Information Management Practicum (3 semester hours) This guided health information management (HIM) practicum provides an overview of health information services with hands-on and reality- based experiences in a health information department, or related site that will reinforce and enhance classroom learning. Students will also acquire technical skills through guided simulated online lab activities designed to simulate the activities that would be completed in an HIM department setting. Students will evaluate and utilize relevant HIM computer and software applications. This course is intended to give the student practical experience in HIM, and during the course students will employ practical application of previously studied theory, principles, and knowledge in data retention, retrieval, storage assembly, deficiency analysis, physician communication, and release of information. Prerequisite: Students may take the practicum after all other Major Required courses are completed. View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ details.html?c=HIMA497) to find out details about each course including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot of the syllabi, and session dates.

HIMA499 Senior Seminar in Health Information Management (3 semester hours) This seminar is a senior level course designed to allow the student to review, analyze, and integrate the work the student has completed toward a degree in health information management. The student will complete an approved academic project or paper that demonstrates mastery of their program of study in a meaningful culmination of their learning, as well as assess their level of mastery of the stated outcomes of their degree requirements. (Prerequisite: Students may only take this course after the completion of all CORE courses) View the course schedule (https://www.apus.edu/course-schedule/ details.html?c=HIMA499) to find out details about each course including prerequisites, course objectives, course materials, a snapshot of the syllabi, and session dates.

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