HIM1000 — INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: 3 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the history of medical records and to the functions of the medical record department and its relationship to other departments within the health facility; the components of a medical or health record as proper documentation, organization of the medical record profession and identification of its members. HIM 1253. CPT CODING: 3 Credits Instruction and practice in basic coding conventions, principles of classifying physician services using current procedural terminology as well as healthcare financing administration’s common procedure coding system. (HCPCS) HIM 1254. INTERMEDIATE CODING: 3 Credits This course is the continuation of basic coding principles, characteristics, and conventions of coding, using physicians’ current procedural terminology (CPT) coding nomenclature. HIM 1440. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY FOR HEALTHCARE DOCUMENTATION: 3 Credits This course emphasizes the fundamentals of the human disease process. It introduces important terminology, inflammation and allergy, neoplasia, heredity and disease, dietary factors and diseases, infectious disease, and introduces students to the major diseases associated with each body system. Recognition of drug names and drug classes; understand drug actions and the rationale for treatment; discern between sound-alike drugs; understand side effects, allergic effects and other effects of drugs; addresses various healthcare issues relating to pharmacology. HIM 1453. HUMAN ANATOMY AND P