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HIM 1101 - Clinical Laboratory I
The student will be given the opportunity to correlate the didactic experience of previous courses with on-site and on-campus laboratory learning experience.

HIM 1102 - Clinical Laboratory II 
The student will be given the opportunity to correlate the didactic experience of previous courses with on-site and on-campus laboratory learning experience.

HIM 1103 - Professional Issues Seminar 
Introduction to the HIM profession, ethics, and professional organizations. Concepts of professionalism. Overview of basic skills required for the profession. Group and team building processes.

HIM 1202 - Registry Principles & Practice
Introduction to basic registry operations which include hospital registries and central registries, basics of staging  and classification systems used in cancer registries, overview of the survey process, procedures, requirements, and standards of a registry and accreditation.  Topics are: statistics, reporting, data sets, data editing, quality control, case-finding principles, cancer committees, cancer conferences, agency reporting, legal issues, and confidentiality.

HIM 1203 - Epidemiology
Introduction to the basic principles and methods of epidemiologic research and practice - presents an overview of the history and theoretical basis of epidemiology; measures of morbidity and mortality; disease transmission and risk; major epidemiologic study designs; measures of association; sources of error including bias, confounding, and interaction; evaluation of screening tests, inference, and causality.

HIM 1301 - Medical Terminology
Introduction to the language of medicine. Emphasis is on terminology of all anatomical body systems, roots of words, suffixes, prefixes, and correlation with basic anatomy and physiology classes.

HIM 1304 - Pathophysiology with Pharmacology
Common pathological conditions of the organ systems and the drugs of choice used in their treatment.

HIM 1307 - Applied Systems
Application of methods for implementing and managing health information systems in acute and ambulatory health care environments.

HIM 1308 - Health Record Systems and Issues
Basic concepts and functions in health information management to include development, storage, and maintenance of the health record in the health care delivery systems environment.

HIM 1309 - ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding & Classification Systems
Introduction to the ICD-10-CM/PCS system for coding developed by CMS.  Includes a brief history of its development and characteristics, and basic information.  Emphasis is on the structure, characteristics and applications in detail to include procedures in the medical and surgical sections and ancillary sections.  Also included are ICD-10-PCS definitions and coding guidelines of all seven characters:  section, body system, root operation, body part, approach, device, and qualifiers.

HIM 2101 - Clinical Practice
The student will be given the opportunity to correlate the didactic experience of previous advanced courses with on-site and on-campus laboratory learning experience.

HIM 2102 - Problem Solving Seminar
Examination of the latest trends in health information management. Use of case studies for problem solving responses to management and supervisory issues. 

HIM 2201 - Legal and Ethical Issues
The health record as a confidential legal document; legal principles, policies, regulations and standards for the control and use of health information. The basic structure of the federal and state court system. Definition and application of professional ethics and consideration of contemporary legal and ethical issues.

HIM 2202 - Registry Professional Practice
Directed practice provides hands-on experience in all aspects of registry operations.  Supervised practiced in a hospital registry includes skill and understanding in registry management, data collection and abstracting, coding and staging, follow-up, data utilization and reporting, computer applications, and quality assessment.  The clinical rotations include 11 hours of directed practice each week during the 15-week semester.

HIM 2203 - Preceptorship
The student will be given the opportunity to correlate the didactic experiences of previous and concurrent courses with on-site and on-campus laboratory learning experiences. Application of operational management theory and orientation to all aspects of practice as a supervisor of a health information department component in a hospital, long term care or ambulatory setting. Includes student project(s). 

HIM 2301 - Quality in Health Care
Purpose, philosophy and processes of improving organizational performance through quality assessment, credentialing, utilization management, and risk management. Use of quality improvement tools for case review, data collection, data display, and data analysis.

HIM 2302 - Expanded Coding (CPT-4)
Introduction to nomenclature and classification systems with instruction in coding procedures with the CPT/HCPCS system. Coding data quality issues and methodology are introduced and related to the reimbursement system. 

HIM 2303 - Data Management and Statistics
Computation and interpretation of healthcare statistics. Report generation, data display and data analysis.

HIM 2304 - Supervisory Management
Supervisory principles of a health care information service. Review of specific human resource management functions including communication, motivation, and supervision. Review of budgets, staffing schedules, policies, procedures, and productivity. Analysis of case study examples from health information departments, in the inpatient, ambulatory, and physician office environments. 

HIM 2305 - Intermediate Coding & Reimbursement
Application of advanced guidelines of ICD-9-CM, CPT/HCPCS, and coding in the prospective payment and managed care environments for acute and ambulatory care reimbursement.

HIM 2401 - Staging & Classification
Introduction to basic staging and classification systems to include hospital and central registries.  Course covers the Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS), International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition (ICD-O-3), American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual (TNM staging); Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Extent of Disease (EOD); and SEER Summary Staging Manual 2000.  An overview of the principles and rules governing the classification system and each staging system to meet requirements and standards of a hospital and central registry are presented.

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Department of Health Information Management
Kathy C. Trawick, Ed.D., RHIA, Chairman and Associate Professor
4301 W. Markham Street, # 733   •   Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
Telephone (501) 296-1059