What you'll learn
- Understand the basics of Revenue Cycle Management (The Billing Cycle) in Healthcare IT
- Demonstrate knowledge of HL7, FHIR, EDI and other messaging standards
- Demonstrate knowledge of various terminology standards like ICD, SNOMED, LOINC, RxNorm
- Understand the basics of Medical Records and their journey towards becoming Electronic Medical Records
- Understand impact of regulatory changes in Healthcare and its impact on Technology/IT
Requirements
- No specific experience required.
Description
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.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners curious about understanding the basics of Healthcare Technology
- Health IT Professionals
- Healthcare/Hospital Management Professionals
Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 377 Reviews
- 1,915 Students
- 4 Courses
Hello there, I am Harish C. Rijhwani, a Healthcare IT professional with nearly twenty years of experience working with various clients across Hospitals, Health Insurance companies and Pharma Life Sciences. In parallel I have been a visiting faculty, spending my weekends (nearly a decade now) teaching Management students from various Institutes.
A self-published author of three books viz. 'Healthcare Decoded - Begin your Health IT Journey', 'Technology to Business - The Invisible Gap' and 'Master The Mystic Arts - Begin Your Data Science Journey'.
A passion speaker and have spoken at multiple conferences for NASSCOM (Life Sciences & Healthcare Innovation Forum), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences.