This course introduces the types of patient records and documentation issues associated with them. It covers filing systems and record storage circulation methods, including electronic health records. Students gain an understanding for indexes, registers, and health data collection. (Formerly Introduction to Record Keeping)
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This course provides an overview of the administrative side of healthcare. Topics include the culture of healthcare, the path of a claim, types of payers and stakeholders in the healthcare process, unique requirements for different specialty areas, history of technology in healthcare, ethics in healthcare, and current issues in the automation and streamlining of the business of healthcare.
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This course prepares students to use electronic records in a medical practice. They discuss history, theory, and potential benefits of EHRs. Students explore EHR components, including prescriptions, exam notes, lab orders and results, scanned images, and others. The course covers privacy and security of health records in detail. (Formerly Using Electronic Health Records)
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This hands-on course prepares students for working in today's healthcare environment. Topics include an overview of healthcare in the United States, ethical and legal issues, and professionalism in the workplace. Students also practice working with patient charts by completing exercises in a simulated hospital computer system.
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This hands-on course uses a simulated hospital computer system to practice working with medication orders, lab orders, treatment orders, and diagnostic imaging orders. It covers admission, preoperative, and postoperative procedures. Students learn the basics of medical terminology, human anatomy and physiology, and diseases and disorders of the various body systems.
This course reviews principles of management, planning, and leadership and applies them to common situations that occur in the healthcare IT environment. It teaches effective communication skills and human relations skills and reinforces these skills through experiential learning.
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This class introduces the fundamentals of health workflow process analysis as a necessary component of complete practice automation. It also discusses the concept of quality improvement in the healthcare setting.
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In this laboratory class, students work with simulated electronic health record systems or real EHR systems with simulated data. As students play the role of practitioner using these systems, they learn what is happening under the hood. Students experience threats to security and learn to appreciate the need for standards, high levels of usability, and how errors can occur.
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Students study workflow process redesign concepts in-depth. The course covers process validation and change management and presents concepts of health IT and practice workflow redesign as instruments of quality improvement. It also explores methods of establishing a culture that supports increased quality and safety. (Formerly Workflow Redesign)
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This course introduces students to health IT standards, health-related data structures, software applications, and enterprise architecture in healthcare and public health organizations. Students also study rapid prototyping, user-centered design and evaluation, and usability.
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This course includes instruction in installation and maintenance of health IT systems, including testing prior to implementation. It discusses approaches to assessing, selecting, and configuring EHRs to the specific needs of end-users.
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This course presents an in-depth analysis of data mobility including the hardware infrastructure, the Open Systems Interconnection model, standards, Internet protocol, federations and grids, the National Health Information Network, and other nationwide approaches.
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This course includes an overview of learning management systems, instructional design software tools, teaching techniques and strategies, evaluation of learner competencies, maintenance of training records, and assessment of training program effectiveness. (Formerly Training and Instructional Design)
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This course presents principles of leadership and the effective management of teams. It discusses leadership modes and styles best suited to IT deployment. Students gain an understanding of project management tools and techniques that result in the ability to create and follow a project management plan.
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This capstone course gives students the opportunity to integrate the skills and knowledge acquired throughout the HITP curriculum. Students develop, manage, and execute each stage of a health IT project.
This internship places students in a working and learning environment to receive on-the-job training before graduation. Students prepare a portfolio based on the successful completion of the HITP program. Students must complete 40 hours of work for each credit hour.