HIMT 204 - Quality Assessment and Improvement

1. Describe healthcare organizations from the perspective of key stakeholders.
2. Apply policies, regulations, and standards to the management of information.
3. Identify policies and strategies to achieve data integrity.
4. Determine compliance of health record content within the health organization.
5. Describe privacy and security strategies to health information.
6. Identify compliance requirements throughout the health information life cycle.
7. Illustrate health informatics concepts to the management of health information.
8. Utilize technologies for health information management.
9. Report health care data through graphical representations.
10. Describe research methodologies used in healthcare
11. Describe compliance with external forces.
12. Identify the components of risk management related to health information management.
13. Identify the impact of policy on health care.
14. Describe the impact of organizational change.
15. Utilize data-driven performance improvement techniques for decision-making
16. Assess ethical standards of practice.

• Compliance with organizational and external regulations and standards for the health record
• Graphical tools for data presentation
• Common research methodologies used in healthcare
• Accreditation, licensure, and credentialing in a healthcare organization
• Fraud and abuse trends
• Outcomes measuring and monitoring
• Tools for monitoring, reporting, and improving processes
• Work processes and goals
• The importance of healthcare policy

 
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