HIM 3200 - Health Informatics Standards

Prerequisite(s): HIT 1400; HIT 2100.
Vocabulary, terminology and classification systems are vital to the access, combination, manipulation and sharing of encoded data for multiple objectives internally and externally. The purpose and functions, differences and similarities of health care code sets and classifications used for administrative and statistical reporting, ICD, CPT, HCPCS, NDC, CDT and other systems are discussed and defined. Data set standards and data interchange standards are examined. The concentration is to uphold health care standards in classification systems, data governance and data management to achieve data integrity, validity and interoperability. Credit(s): 3 (3 plus 0)

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