HIT 276 - Health Information Technology Practicum

• Collect and maintain data using conventional health data structures.
• Produce accurate and clean data using conventional health data structures.
• Use health data management to generate accurate and timely billing reports.
• Use health data management to generate accurate and timely registries.
• Use health data management to generate data bases.
• Apply healthcare information requirements and standard in the implementation and monitoring of documentation standards and guidelines.
• Ensure organizaiton compliance with national regulations
  and standards.
• Institute activities to ensure institutional compliance, and contribute to organization accreditation or certification.
• Identify clinical classification systems.
• Apply electronic applications and work processes to support clinical classification systems and coding.
• Apply clincial codes using CPT/HCPCS.
• Implement strategies to ensure compliance and accuracy with diagnostic/procedural groupings (CPT/ICD/HCPC).
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness in electronic coding and batching.
• Apply state policies and procedures regarding the use of clinical data to support financial processes.
• Develop and maintain technology systems to ensure that billing and coding, chargemaster functions, claims management and bill reconciliation processes are timely and accurate.
• Query health information data from procedural and diagnostic coding.
• Perform abstraction procedures for health information and data.
• Collect, maintain, organize and present data for operation support functions.
• Analyze and critique health data.
• Perform query activities to abstract and report data for facility wide quality management and performance improvement initiatives.
• Analyze data to identify trends that reflect and demonstrate quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare.
• Apply knowledge of national information systems policies and procedures related to health information initiatives from the national, state, local and facility levels.
• Explain policies and procedures related to various payment systems for healthcare services, such as: Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and indemnity.
• Differentiate the roles of various providers and discplines through the continuum of healthcare and response to their needs.
• Apply principles of healthcare privacy, confidentiality, legal and ethical standards in the implementation of legal and regulatory requirements related to the health information infrastructure.
• Apply standards set forth in releasing personal health information.
• Conduct educational training programs regarding the maintenance and release of personal health information.
• Describe the types of healthcare information and communication techologies used to support a health system.
• Use technology to ensure proper data collection, storage, analysis, and reporting of information.
• Use software applications, such as: spread sheets, databases, word processing, graphics, presentation, e-mail, and other common software applications.