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 2013

HIM 1202 - Registry Principles
HIM 2202 - Registry Professional Practice

HIM 2401 - Staging

Students do not purchase any textbooks for the cancer registry courses (1202, 2202 and 2401); all materials are on loan from the Health Information Management department and must be signed out similar to a library loan system using a promissory note so that if any book is damaged beyond repair or lost, the student must pay to replace the book.

HIM 1101 – Clinical Lab 1  

HIM 1103 - Professional Issues Seminar
HIM 1308 - Health Records Systems & Issues (HRSI) 

Sayles, N.B.  (2012). Health Information Management:  An Applied Approach (4^th ed.). Chicago, IL: American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). ISBN unavailable at time of posting. To be released by November 1^st, 2012

Comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of the profession accompanied by a student workbook with a CD  

HIM 1301 - Medical Terminology

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

Basic approach to medical terminology using repetition and an audio CD 

HIM 1307 – Applied Systems

Giannangelo, K. (2010). Healthcare Code Sets, Clinical Terminologies, and Classification Systems (2^nd ed.) AHIMA ISBN: 9781584262251 (AHIMA Product #AB201909)

Covers all health information management aspects of the various systems and clinical components used in profession

Sayles & Trawick (2012). Introduction to Computer Systems for HIT (1^st ed.)

ISBN unavailable at time of posting. To be released in 2013.

Covers the basic principles and mechanics of the electronic health record (EHR), data retrieval, and healthcare computer systems.

HIM 2102 – Problem Solving Seminar
HIM 2203 – Preceptorship*

HIM 2304 – Supervisory Management*

Liebler, J.G. & McConnell, C.R. (2012). Management Principles for Health Professionals (6^th ed.). Jones and Bartlett Publishers, LLC. ISBN: 9781449614683

*HIM 2203 & 2304 – Preceptorship & Supervisory Management has an additional purchase of the RHIT Review Guide (from AHIMA) to be purchased in Feb/Mar in preparation for the RHIT exam.

HIM 2302 – CPT/Expanded Coding

American Medical Association (2013). CPT: Physician’s Current Procedural Terminology. (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 (2013). Principles of CPT Coding. (Current Ed.) ISBN unavailable at time of posting.

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

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