HIT-216 Quality Management

This course introduces principles of quality assessment and improvement, and utilization, risk, and case management, in healthcare. Topics include Continuous Quality Improvement, and case management processes, data analysis/reporting techniques, credentialing, regulatory quality monitoring requirements, and outcome measures and monitoring. Upon completion, students should be able to abstract, analyze, and report clinical data for facility-wide quality management/performance improvement programs and monitor compliance measures. Semester Offered: Spring

Class Hours: 1.00 Lab Hours: 3.00

Credit Hours: 2.00
Requisites:

Take HIT 114 ; (Required, Previous);
Take HIT 210 HIT 220 ; Minimum grade C; (Required, Previous);
Take HIT 218 ; (Required, Previous or Concurrent);
Take one ENG 002 , BSP 4002 , or ENG 111 ; (Required, Previous);
TakeMAT 003 or BSP 4003 ; (Required, Previous);

This course is part of this/these program(s) of study:

Health Information Technology, A.A.S.