10530176Health Data Management
Course Information
Description
Introduces the use and structure of health care data elements, data sets, data standards, their relationships to primary and secondary record systems and health information processing.
Total Credits
2
Course Competencies
  1. Collect health data
    Assessment Strategies
    through an exam or project(s) (such as creating a paper or electronic data collection tool)
    Criteria
    you utilize health data elements that correspond to given data sets
    you demonstrate compliance with established quality form characteristics (margins, font, identification etc.)

  2. Apply policies to ensure the quality of health data
    Assessment Strategies
    through an exam or project(s)
    Criteria
    you verify the quality of given health data against the data quality attributes

  3. Compare clinical terminologies used in healthcare data collection, reporting and exchange
    Assessment Strategies
    through an exam or project(s)
    Criteria
    you differentiate between the uses and application of given clinical terminologies and vocabularies
    you differentiate between characteristics (including code structure) of given clinical terminologies and vocabularies
    you illustrate the use of clinical terminologies in the electronic health record

  4. Compare standards for the electronic transmission and exchange of health data
    Assessment Strategies
    through an exam or project(s)
    Criteria
    you compare the uses and application of given data standards
    you compare the characteristics (e.g. content, code sets used etc.) of given data standards
    you compare the uses and application of given messaging standards
    you discuss the national initiatives related to the electronic transmission and exchange of health data (HIPAA, HITECH, ONC, NHII, ARRA)

  5. Comply with accreditation, certification and legislative requirements for health record documentation
    Assessment Strategies
    through an exam or project(s)
    given policies, procedures or other guidelines (regulations etc.)
    given paper or electronic health record documentation
    using electronic HIM-related applications (deficiency management system etc.)
    Criteria
    you perform quantitative analysis of health records (paper and/or electronic) according to given guidelines
    you enter deficiencies into an electronic deficiency management system
    you illustrate or perform physician deficiency/delinquency processing procedures
    you generate documents from an electronic deficiency management system (deficiency slips, physician notification letters, and/or reports etc.)

  6. Maintain the health record (paper & electronic)
    Assessment Strategies
    through an exam or project(s)
    given policies, procedures or other guidelines (regulations etc.)
    given paper or electronic health record documentation
    using electronic HIM-related applications (record locator, master patient index etc.)
    Criteria
    you assemble health records according to a given chart order
    you illustrate the process of scanning (from prep through quality checking and correction)
    you track the location of paper records
    you retrieve patient data using the MPI
    you select the best storage alternative for a given situation(s)
    you apply policies for record retention and destruction