HIT 216 - Quality Management

Class Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 3
Clinical/Work Exp. Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 2

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 facilitywide quality management/performance improvement programs and monitor compliance measures.

Prerequisites: HIT 114. Corequisites: None.
When Offered: (F)