2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

HIT 222 Professional Practice Experience III

Lecture: 0 Lab: 0 Clinic: 6 Credits: 2
This course provides supervised and/or simulated health information technology clinical experience in healthcare settings. Emphasis is placed on practical application of HIM functions and core curriculum concepts. Upon completion, students should be able to apply health information theory to healthcare facility practices.

Course is typically offered in Spring.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
At the completion of the course, the students should be able to do the following:

  1. Describe the policies, procedures, and standards of healthcare accreditation bodies, government agencies, and other external forces impacting healthcare delivery. (I.1).
  2. Describe the use of health information secondary data sources such as cancer registries, trauma indices, birth, and death certificate indices. (I.3).
  3. Recognize the basic data sets, such as UHDDS, MDS, and UACDS used in acute care, ambulatory care, and long-term care settings. (I.6).
  4. Utilize HIPAA privacy and security rules in the healthcare setting. (II.1, II.2).
  5. Apply common policies and processes for release of patient health information. (II.1).
  6. Identify methods of retention and destruction of paper-based and electronic health information. (II.3).
  7. Identify database tools used to manage health information. (III.1).
  8. Identify components of document imaging technology, and the electronic health record. (III.2).
  9. Describe the benefits and processes of health information exchanges. (III.7).
  10. Adhere to coding conventions and the official guidelines in the assignment of diagnostic and procedural coding. (IV.1).
  11. Describe the processes of the revenue cycle including the facility chargemaster, claim denials, DNFB, and appeals. (IV.2).
  12. Summarize the clinical documentation improvement and physician query process. (IV.2).
  13. Describe the CMS reimbursement methodologies of APCs and MS-DRGs. (IV.3).
  14. Protect the health record by following the legal chain of custody. (V.1).
  15. Adhere to policies and procedures in the handling of court order and subpoena duces tecum. (V.2).
  16. Identify potential health record risks and the role of risk management in the process. (V.3).
  17. Identify the organizational structure, mission, and vision of the healthcare facility. (VI.1).
  18. Report on the management and supervision practices used for health information department personnel. (VI.3).
  19. Identify health information department continuous quality improvement tools and techniques. (VI.4).
  20. Report on health information department training needs. (VI.9).