Professional Practice Experience in Health Information Management

Catalog description

This course allows students to gain professional practice experience in a health information administrator role through a combination of 60 hours of externally supervised professional practice experience activities, including a project with a healthcare-related site and virtual and simulated experiences within the course. The experiences are designed to provide students the opportunity to have a variety of experiences and utilize healthcare-related technology in various health information services and healthcare work settings. Students have the opportunity for review in preparation for the AHIMA ® RHIA® exam.