Textbooks

The following list of required textbooks is published in compliance with State of Arkansas General Assembly Act 175 of the 2007 Regular Session.

Spring 2012 

HIM 1202  Registry Principles
HIM 2202  Registry Professional Practice
HIM 2306  Staging

Students do not purchase any textbooks for the cancer registry courses of HIM 1202, HIM 2202, and HIM 2306. Textbooks for these courses are loaned to students by the Health Information Management department.  The books must be signed out with a promissory note indicating that if any book is damaged beyond repair or lost, the student must pay to replace the book

HIM 1308  Health Records
HIM 1101  Clinical Lab 1
HIM 2203  Preceptorship
HIM 1103  Professional Seminar
HIM 2102  Problem Solving Seminar 

Johns, M.  (2010). Health Information Management:  An Applied Approach (3^rd ed.).  with Workbook CD. Chicago, IL: American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). ISBN 9781584262596  

Comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the profession and accompanied by a workbook on CD  

HIM 2304  Supervisory Management

Liebler/McConnell (2012). Management Principles for the Health Professionals (6^th) Philadelphia, PA:  Jones& Bartlett   ISBN 978-1-4496-1468-3

Johns, M. (2010). See HIM 1308 

2012 RHIT/RHIA Examination Review Guide

Prepares the student for national certification examination and is not published until around late March. Purchasing details provided in the course (not purchased from the UAMS bookstore) 

HIM 2302  CPT/Expanded Coding

American Medical Association. (Current year). CPT: Physician’s Current Procedural Terminology. American Medical Association. (Professional/Spiral ed.). ISBN unavailable at time of posting. 

CPT-4 classification codebook developed by the AMA and used to learn how to code using this classification system

American Medical Association. (Current year).  Principles of CPT Coding (current ed.). American Medical Association.  ISBN Unavailable at time of posting. 

Workbook used in conjunction with the codebook for the CPT-4 course  

HIM 1307  Applied Systems

Giannangelo, K. (2010).  Healthcare Code Sets, Clinical Terminologies, and Classification Systems, 2^nd ed. Chicago, IL: American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).  ISBN 9781584262251    

Covers all health information management aspects of the various systems and clinical components used in profession as well as the datasets and definitions used in health care today 

Johns, M.  (2010). Health Information Management:  An Applied Approach (3^rd ed.). with Work Book CD. Chicago, IL: American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). ISBN 9781584262596  

Comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the profession and accompanied by a workbook on CD  

HIM 1301  Medical Terminology

Chabner, D. (2011). The Language of Medicine (9^th ed.).  Philadelphia, P.A.: W.B. Saunders, Co.  ISBN 9781437705706     

Basic approach to medical terminology using repetition and an audio CD

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