HIM 300 - Health Data Management

• Assignments: Varied throughout the term
• Final Assessment: Final Paper

• Evaluate, implement and manage electronic applications/systems for clinical classification and coding
• Identify the functions and relationships between healthcare classification systems
• Map terminologies, vocabularies, and classification systems.
• Evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic and procedural coding.
• Verify that documentation in the health record supports the diagnosis and reflects the patient’s progress, clinical findings, and discharge status.
• Compile organization-wide health record documentation guidelines.
• Interpret health information standards.
• Format data to satisfy integration needs.
• Construct and maintain the standardization of data dictionaries to meet the needs of the enterprise.
• Demonstrate compliance with internal and external data dictionary requirements.
• Advocate information operability and information exchange
• Analyze information needs of customers across the healthcare continuum.
• Evaluate health information systems and data storage design.
• Manage clinical indices, databases, and registries.
• Apply knowledge of database architecture and design to meet organizational needs.
• Evaluate data from varying sources to create meaningful presentations.
• Validate data from secondary sources to include in the patient’s record, including personal health records.