Healthcare IT Decoded

Begin Your Health IT Journey

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

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.

Course Content

• Introduction and Basics –> 3 lectures • 19min.
• Revenue Cycle Management –> 9 lectures • 1hr 35min.
• Health Insurances –> 2 lectures • 27min.
• The Claim File – UB04 –> 4 lectures • 33min.
• Electronic Medical Records –> 8 lectures • 1hr 11min.
• Tidal Wave of Regulations –> 7 lectures • 1hr 21min.
• Data Transmission Standards –> 16 lectures • 2hr 24min.
• Terminology Standards in Healthcare –> 7 lectures • 38min.
• Additional Topics –> 2 lectures • 31min.
• Health IT Job Market –> 2 lectures • 19min.

Requirements

Are you Interested in understanding the basics of Health Information Technology or Health-IT? Yes, the 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  as a whiteboard wherever possible and drive the explanation of some of the concepts in an simple but engaging manner.

In this course you will learn the following

• 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
• 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.