HIT 216 - Quality Management

Class Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 3 Clinic/WkExp Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 2

Prerequisite: HIT 114
Corequisite: None
Local Prerequisite: Acceptance in HIT program or permission from instructor
Local Corequisite: None

Additional Fees: $11.25 Lab

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.