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.
  • Recognize imp0act of change management on processes, people, and systems.
  • Explain the methodology of training and development.

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.

Components of Performance Improvement Programs

  • Explain the cyclical nature of performance improvement activities.
  • 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 data-driven performance improvement techniques for decision making. (CAHIIM VI.4 Blooms 3)

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.
  • Identify root cause(s) for performance management projects.

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.
  • Identify the impact of policy on health care. (CAHIIM V.4 Blooms 3)

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.

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.
  • Utilize enterprise-wide information assets in support organizational strategies and objectives.
  • Summarize health information related leadership roles.
  • Apply project management tools for data presentations.
  • Report health care data through graphical representations (CAHIIM III.4 Blooms 3)