Data Coding & Classification Certificate

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Earn your health informatics certificate in data coding and classification online at Champlain College and enter this career field with a credential employers will respect. Our online informatics certificate will enable you to:

  • Assemble and review patients’ health information, assuring that proper authentication, identification, and complete information are included in the electronic health record
  • Apply current laws, accreditation, licensure and certification standards related to health information initiatives at all levels to ensure organizational compliance, and to protect data integrity and validity using software and hardware technology
  • Help to recognize HIT best practices and enact strategic and operational plans for utilization of these practices
  • Apply knowledge and best practices related to data content and structure, reimbursement methodologies, coding and classification, and medical terminology to assure that electronic documentation efforts result in the highest levels of patient care
  • Coordinate data collection, support in interpreting data, report information to continuously improve HIT processes and compliance
  • Understand concepts of medical terminology, and human anatomy and physiology as they relate to health information coding, classification and documentation

Curriculum

Course Number Course Title Credits
HCMT 210 Navigating U.S. Healthcare System 3
HITS 110 Health Data Content and Structure 3
HITS 100 Medical Terminology 1
HITS 220 Coding and Classification Systems 3
HITS 230 Reimbursement Methodologies 3
SCIE 220 Human Anatomy & Physiology I 4
SCIE 225 Human Anatomy & Physiology II 4
  Total: 21