HIMT 2200 Syllabus

Subject Code

HIMT

Course Number

2200

Course Title

Performance Improvement

Prerequisites

Program admission

Corequisites

Terms Offered

Offered Fall

Credit Hours

(2-2-3)

Course Description

This course introduces students to the peer review and the role health information plays in evaluating patient care. The course investigates the components of performance improvement programs in healthcare facilities, including quality assessment, utilization management, risk management, and critical clinical pathways. State and local standards are included, as well as a review of the federal government's role in healthcare and accreditation requirements of various agencies.

Course Outcomes

Peer Review Process

  • Discuss how the peer review process can assist appropriate practice decisions in healthcare.
  • Discuss terminology and standards common to performance improvement activities.
  • Explain the principal aspects of healthcare that are targeted for performance measurement.
  • Identify the role of an organization's leaders in performance improvement activities.
  • Assess how cultural issues affect health, healthcare quality, cost and HIM.
  • Create programs and policies that support a culture of diversity.
  • Utilize tools and techniques to monitor, report, and improve processes.

Quality Assessment

  • Identify common health care data collection tools.
  • Identify methods to evaluate health care delivery.
  • Explain usability and accessibility of health information by patients, including current trends and future challenges.
  • Summarize project management methodologies.
  • Analyze data to identify trends.
  • Identify cost-saving and efficient means of achieving work processes and goals.
  • Utilize data for facility-wide outcomes reporting for quality management and performance improvement.
  • Apply policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy and integrity of health data both internal and external to the health system.

Utilization Management

  • Discuss how utilization management can be used to ensure that facilities and resources are consistent with patient care needs.
  • Discuss the steps in the case management function.
  • Assess how cultural issues affect health, healthcare quality, cost and HIM.

Critical Clinical Pathways

  • Explain why processes have been developed to optimize the continuum of care.
  • Discuss the steps in the case management function.

Federal and State Government Standard Role in Healthcare

  • Discuss how federal regulations contribute to the management of care in the U.S. healthcare system.
  • Discuss how state and local standards are used in defining quality and performance standards in healthcare.
  • Analyze policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy and integrity of health data both internal and external to the health system.

Orientation to Accreditation Requirements

  • Differentiate the performance improvement perspectives of accreditation, certification, and licensure organizations.
  • Compare and contrast various approaches of accreditation, certification, and licensure agencies to the site visit and survey.
  • Differentiate between compulsory and voluntary reviews.
  • Collaborate analyze with staff in preparing the organization for accreditation licensure, and/or certification.

Strategic and Organizational Management

  • Understand the importance of healthcare policymaking as it relates to the healthcare delivery system
  • Describe the differing types of organizations, services, and personnel and their interrelationships across the healthcare delivery system.