Healthcare IT Decoded

Are you Interested in understanding the basics of Health Information Technology or Health-IT? Yes, then look no further.

This course has been designed considering various parameters. I combine my experience of over twenty years in Health IT and more than ten years in teaching the same to students of various backgrounds (Technical as well as Non-Technical). I have leveraged PowerPoint  to explain some of the concepts in an simple but engaging manner.

In this course you will learn the following (Currently the Primary focus is on Hospital IT Systems, will add elements related to Payor and Pharma later)

• Introduction and Basics – History of Healthcare

• Revenue Cycle Management – Front, Middle and Back Office

• Health Insurances – How it all started, The Concept of sliding scale

• Understanding the Institutional Claim File (UB04) and the various data elements present in the same; Revenue Code, Condition Codes, HCPCS Codes 

• Electronic Medical Records – POMR, SOAP, HIMSS 7 Stages of EMR Adoption, EPIC & Meditech Modules  

• The Tidal wave of Regulations – ARRA, Meaningful Use, ACO’s, ICD-9 to ICD-10, Hospital Price Transparency

• Data Transmission Standards – HL7, EDI, DICOM, CCD, FHIR

• Terminology Standards – RxNorm, NDC, NDF-RT, MED-RT, LOINC, SNOMED-CT

• Additional Topics – Patient Health Records, Health Information Exchange, Clinical Quality Reporting

• The Health IT Job Market – Types of Organization to look out for and the different kind or roles one can search or look for in the future.