HI 5307 Health Information Management
This course provides an overview of Health Information Management (HIM) discipline and can be described as a “translator” of health care data, regardless of where the data is generated, by creating trusted information. The creation and normalization of data is an important element within an informatics program. The HIM profession supports these initiatives with data normalization across platforms by leveraging standards, classification systems, clinical vocabularies, and nomenclatures. HIM competencies include the practice of acquiring, analyzing, and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to delivering quality patient care in addition to providing trusted data for public health analysis, quality initiatives, performance improvement efforts, and strategic planning.
Students will gain an understanding of the factors that impact the health record including coding and reimbursement systems, data generation methodologies, quality management, standards, classification systems, vocabularies, terminologies, nomenclatures, policy, environmental factors, regulatory agencies, reimbursement, data governance, and case-law influence. This increased knowledge will support health care planning and provision, resource allocation, and executive decision-making.