Health Information Management

Introduction to Health Information Management

Introduction to healthcare documentation, including the voluntary and regulatory standards related to the healthcare record and medical transcription and the study and application of medicolegal concepts and ethics in the medical transcription profession.

Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3

Medical Style and Grammar

Corequisite: *HSC1531. The study, synthesis, and application of the rules of English language and medical transcription style as reflected by the AHDI book of style.

Credit hours: 2
Lecture hours: 2

Concepts of Disease

Prerequisites: *HSC1531, BSC1020. A survey of the fundamental nature of disease and its treatment, studying common human diseases and conditions including etiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic treatment modalities, prognoses, and prevention.

Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3

Pharmacology and Laboratory Medicine

Prerequisites: HSC1531, BSC1020. A study of the principles and language of pharmacology and laboratory medicine, including drugs and drug classes, diagnostic tests, indications, techniques, expressions of values, and significance of findings.

Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3

Health Information Management Coop

Credit hours: 1
Lecture hours: 1
Other hours: 1