HIM 3200 - Health Information Standards

Prerequisite(s): HIT1550; HIT2100.
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 healthcare 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 healthcare standards in classification systems, data governance and data management to achieve data integrity, validity, and interoperability. Credit(s): 3 (3 plus 0)