Health Information Management - Cuyahoga Community College

Health Information Management from Cuyahoga Community College is a Campus Associate Health Administration degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The Health Information Management (HIM) program prepares graduates who can identify and use a variety of health information resources and technologies to accomplish the objectives of diverse practice environments. In general, these individuals may perform tasks related to the use, analysis, validation, presentation, abstracting, coding, storage, security, retrieval, quality measurement and control of health care data. Their task responsibility may also include supervision of personnel. The program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIM), a division of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). The goal of the Health Information Management Program is to provide an educational experience within the framework of professional standards. Graduates of the program may be eligible to take the national certification examination to become a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT). Upon passing the examination, an individual is permitted to use the credential RHIT behind his/her last name. Earning a credential validates your competence as an HIM professional to employers and the public. This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following program outcomes: 1. Utilize oral and written skills to effectively communicate and interact with healthcare professionals, colleagues, administration and customers to enhance satisfaction. 2. Develop effective interpersonal skills to conduct yourself professionally among clients, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals. 3. Conduct yourself ethically and professionally according to the AHIMA code of ethics and standards of practice. 4. Use a variety of techniques to problem solving and arrive at best outcome. 5. Apply regulatory and accreditation standards, to identify and support documentation compliance. 6. Apply hospital policies, federal regulations and/ or state statutes in the release and management of protected health information (PHI). 7. Identify areas of quality assurance/Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) that relate to risk management, utilization review and documentation compliance. 8. Apply skills to find, build, research, manage and report both electronic and paper data. 9. Employ auditing skills and methodologies to insure compliance, accuracy, completeness, regulations, policies and procedures, and protocols in the healthcare delivery system. 10. Utilize knowledge and skills of anatomy & physiology, medical terminology, pharmacology, pathophysiology, code sets, reimbursement methodologies and regulations to analyze clinical documentation to accurately and thoroughly assign respective code sets for entity's database and 3rd party reimbursement. View more details on Cuyahoga Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Administration courses.