A study of the methods of recording diagnoses and operations by recognized systems of disease, procedural and pathological nomenclatures, and classification systems, manual and computerized systems of indexing and abstracting, research and statistical techniques, and health information data handling. This course serves as an introductory offering for students to learn to collect, analyze, interpret, and present facts as numbers.
Students are responsible for turning papers in on time.
You must contact the instructor prior to an examination if an examination will be missed. Students in the Health Information Management Program are being trained for professional positions in the health care environment. Accountability and reliability are important attributes of the successful professional. The student is expected to attend class. Students with 7 absences will be dropped from class.