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Limited Enrollment Program: Contact the Admissions Office for Program admission requirements and Program application deadlines.
The Health Information Technology curriculum provides individuals with the knowledge and skills to process, analyze, abstract, compile, maintain, manage, and report health information.
Students will supervise departmental functions; classify, code, and index diagnoses and procedures; coordinate information for cost control, quality management, statistics, marketing, and planning; monitor governmental and non-governmental standards; facilitate research; and design system controls to monitor patient information security.
Graduates of this program may be eligible to write the national certification examination to become a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT). Employment opportunities include hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, health insurance organizations, outpatient clinics, physicians’ offices, hospice, and mental health facilities
Upon successful completion of the Health Information Technology program, the graduate should be able to:
- Apply policies, regulations, and standards to the management of health information.
- Utilize classification systems and clinical vocabularies for the management of health information.
- Adhere to official guidelines in the assignment of diagnostic and procedural coding.
- Utilize health information management systems.
- Communicate and collaborate as evidence of team building.
The Associate Degree Health Information Management Program is in Candidacy Status, pending accreditation review by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM).
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