HIT 216 - Quality Management

Class: 1 Lab: 3 Clinical: 0 Credit: 2
Prerequisite: HIT 114
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.