This course is intended to help participants progress from learning about themselves, to learning how to relate to their internal customers as well as their external customers in the workplace. 

This course is an introduction to program development using various problem-solving techniques. Emphasis is placed on using algorithms and pseudocode to design programs. Various control structures used in computer programming are also discussed.  

This course will introduce students entering the health field to basic medical and clinical terminology. Vocabulary, spelling, pronunciation, and word analysis for common medical terms that are relevant to anatomy and physiology, medicine, disease, and clinical specialties will be emphasized.

This course covers reimbursement methodologies used in all healthcare settings as they relate to national billing, compliance, and reporting requirements. Topics include prospective payment systems, billing process and procedures, charge master maintenance, regulatory guidelines, reimbursement monitoring, and compliance strategies and reporting. Upon completion, students should be able to perform data quality reviews to validate code assignments and comply with reimbursement and reporting requirements.  

Concepts of computer technology related to healthcare and tools and techniques for collecting, storing, and retrieving healthcare data.  

A study of U.S. legal structure and legal theories as they apply to healthcare, health information management, patient access and other allied health departments. Includes workings of the American legal system, ethical decision making, the legal health record, confidentiality laws, fraud and abuse, and management of health information as it relates to risk, quality, utilization and information systems.  

Introduction to the management of health information, informatics, the health record, master patient index, patient access and other data content and structure into the EHR. This course will provide an overview of the functions, content, and structure of the health record, data access and retrieval systems, quantitative and qualitative analysis; numbering and filing systems; and healthcare data sets. All types of data will be explored from the front of the house to the back of the house including Hospitals, Clinics, Home Health, Skilled Nursing, Long Term, Hospice, and the Health Information Exchange.  

(PREREQUISITES OR COREQUISITES: HESC 1000, HEIT 1020)  

This course explores front end, middle, and back-end patient access procedures with the use of a simulated EHR. Instruction will be provided to cover resource management, insurance, scheduling, pre-registration, patient check-in, patient registration, claims processing, posting payments, customer satisfaction, master patient index processes, bed management, and Certified Healthcare Access Associate (CHAA) preparatory modules. Students will integrate classroom theory with monitored and supervised work experience. Includes up to 80 hours professional practice experience in an externship, virtual option available.  

(PREREQUISITES HEIT 1250, PREREQUISITES OR COREQUISITES: HEIT 1010, HEIT 2050)