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HITE
2650 Seminar on Health Information Technology
(1-0-1)
(Online Course Onl
y)
Exploration of current issues and trends in the health information profession and
industry with emphasis on review for RHIT exam.
Prerequisites: HITE 2100, HITE 2110, HITE 2137, HITE 2150, HITE 2160, HITE
2170, HITE 2250, HITE 2400, HITE 2500, HITE 2550, HITE 2600, or permission
of instructor.
Corequisites: HITE 2600, HITE 2160.
Offered: Fall and Spring.
HITE 2717 Registry Organization
(Online Course Onl
y)
(3-0-3)
An introduction to cancer registries; hospital-based and central registries; legal
issues and confidentiality; focus on management functions of budgeting, annual
reports, staffing, computer hardware and software requiprements.
Prerequisite: Admission into the Cancer Registry Management program.
Corequisites: HITE 2724, HITE 2738, HITE 2752.
Offered: Summer.
HITE
2721 Introduction to ICD for Registry Management
(3-0-3)
(Online Course Onl
y)
Introduction to the concepts of applying numeric codes to text information collected
from medical records for the purpose of classifying patient mortality and morbidity.
Emphasis is placed on coding conventions, guidelines and rules related to benign
and malignant neoplasms, identified or uncertain histologies, and primary or
secondary sites.
Prerequisites: BIOL 1100K, BIOL 1107K, ALHE 1120.
Corequisites: HITE 2100, HITE 2423.
Offered: On demand.
HITE
2724 Registry Operations
(Online Course Onl
y)
(3-0-3)
Focus on CoC Standards, cancer committees, cancer conferences and quality
monitoring.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Cancer Registry Management program and
completion or exemption of all learning support requirements.
Corequisite: HITE 2717.
Offered: Summer.
HITE
2731 Patient Follow-up
(Online Course Onl
y)
(3-0-3)
This course covers cancer patient follow-up methodology, confidentiality and
ethical issues; identification of second primaries, recurrence, spread of disease
and survival data. Physicial, pateint, and other follow-up resources and activities
will be introduced.
Prerequisites: Admission into the Cancer Registry Management program.
Corequisite: HITE 2745, HITE 2752.
Offered: On demand.
HITE
2738 Oncology Coding and Staging Systems
(Online Course Onl
y)
(3-3-4)
Concepts of coding and staging of malignant neoplasms, including a general
overview of International Classification of Disease for Oncology (ICD-O)
nomenclature and classification system; AJCC and SEER staging extent of
disease concepts used by physicians and cancer surveillance orgaizations to
determine treatment and survival.
Prerequisites: HITE 2423, HITE 2721
Corequisites: HITE 2731, HITE 2752.
Offered: Spring.