HIT 216 Quality Management (2 Credit Hours)

Class Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 3
Clinical/Work Experience Hours: 0
Prerequisites: Take HIT 114
Corequisites: None
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.