Associate of Applied Science in Health Information Technology

Apply policies and procedures surrounding data structure, data content, and information governance.

Evaluate health record, data dictionary and data set regulatory and accreditation compliance.

Apply legal and information protection solutions for maintaining privacy, confidentiality and security of health information.

Apply informatics and analytics concepts to health data use and technologies such as clinical decision support, statistical calculations, graphical representations, research methodologies, and data management.

Evaluate the management of database systems and health information exchange standards.

Apply revenue cycle policies and coding methodologies in accordance with guidelines

Evaluate revenue cycle processes and compliance with regulatory requirements and reimbursement methodologies.

Identify legislation, legal processes, health policy, and risk management concepts that affect health information

Demonstrate leadership skills that adhere to equity, diversity and inclusion policies, human resource strategies and performance improvement techniques for workforce training, organizational change, and financial management.

Evaluate compliance with federal regulations and ethical standards of practice

Identify major concepts of supportive knowledge to include pathophysiology, pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, statistics, and computer applications.