Legal Aspects of Health Information Management

Catalog description

This course focuses on the legal system and procedures, ethics, control and use of patient-specific health information. Student will analyze the major external forces affecting the HIM professional’s ability and responsibility to manage patient-specific health information. In addition it also addresses specialty matters such as healthcare fraud and abuse in health information management (HIM). Students will examine the impact that e-mail, digital imaging, telemedicine, and the Internet are having on health records, and analyze laws, regulations and standards related to patient confidentiality and privacy.(Prerequisite: HIMA110)