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HIT 202 Hospital Procedural Coding
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Focus on outpatient and inpatient procedural coding. Includes Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), ICD-9 Volume 3, and
Health Care Procedural Codes (HCPCS) guidelines update, modifier applications, evaluation and management services,
code for procedures, integumentary system, musculoskeletal system, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, digestive
system, urinary/male reproductive system, female reproductive system, endocrine/nervous systems, ocular and auditory
systems, interventional radiology, prospective payment systems, abstracting data, current reimbursement issues, and
computer applications.
Prerequisite(s): HIT 102.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
HIT 210 Medical Quality Assurance and Supervision
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Principles and practices of healthcare management and personnel supervision. Includes health information management,
required management skills, management planning, policies and procedures, human resources supervisory role, job
analysis, interviews, evaluations, behavior, and motivation, meetings, orientations, and training, HIPPA regulations,
productivity measurement and performance standards, organization models, technologies in health care, accreditation and
licensure, ergonomics, and planning for a professional career in health information management.
Prerequisite(s): HIT 100, 110, 111.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
HIT 211 Medicolegal Aspects in Health Information Management
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to regulatory requirements in health care and application of general principles of law in health information
management and legal proceedings. Includes American legal system, court systems and legal procedures, principles of
liability, patient record requirements, access to health information, patient rights and confidentiality, judicial process of
health information, specialized patient records, risk management and quality management, HIV information, computerized
patient records, health care fraud and abuse, and ethics.
Prerequisite(s): HIT 100, 110, 111.
Offered: Fall.
HIT 290 Health Information Technology Internship
3 cr. hrs. 11 periods (1 lec., 10 lab)
Volunteer Health Information Technology field experience at an approved work site. Includes communications, positive
work attitudes, ethics, progress review, health information systems, professional development, employment strategies,
and final evaluation within a classroom seminar setting.
Prerequisite(s): HIT 162 and permission of the instructor.
Information: Designed for students in their final semester of course work in the Health Information Technology option.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
History
For courses numbered 098, 198, 298, see “Topic Courses” on page 292
HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — HISTORY
HIS 101 Introduction to Western Civilization I
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Pre-history to the Wars of Religion, a period extending from 10,000 BCE to 1648 CE. Includes transition from pre-historic
to the historic period, Greco-Roman world, Early, Central, and Late Middle Ages, and Renaissance and Reformation.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIS 102 Introduction to Western Civilization II
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
History of the origins and development of the modern Western world. Includes Wars of Religion, the Enlightenment, the
Eighteenth century, the Nineteenth century, and the Twentieth century.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIS 105 Introduction to Chicano Studies
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Chicano(a) life in historical context since 1848. Includes defining Chicano(a) ideologies and realities from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Also includes Chicano(a) history and culture within the world systems of Native Americans,
New Spain, Mexico and the United States.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
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