Medical Record and Health Information Technician

Course Overview

Medical Records & Health Information Technician (MRHIT) is the science of managing all information related to the operation of a Health care Facility. This includes filing and storing patient charts, scanning medical records, ensuring adherence to regulations and retention schedule, and managing the destruction of medical records after their skill building retention period.This certificate course has been specially tailored for skill enhancement of personnel providing Medical Records services and for personnel opting to take up medical records management as a career in the field of healthcare.

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Learning Objective

To enhance technical skills/work efficiency in the following core areas of health facility management through manual and electronic records:
Management of inpatient and outpatient medical records
Management of inpatient and outpatient department registration services
Generating hospital statistics including bed occupancy rate, bad turnover rate, average length of stay and cost for patient per bed
Generating morbidity and mortality statistics by ICD-10 coding of diseases and diagnostic indexing.
Filing and retrieval of medical records
Legal aspects of medical records
Facilitating Medical audit
Accurate Record Keeping

Course Content

Introduction, Values, Purposes and Uses of Medical Records.
Documentation of Records (Indexes / Registers).
Birth, Death, Registration and Correction in Record.
Medical Ethics and Legal Aspects of Medical Records.
International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and Related Health Problems.
Medical Coding

Electronic Medical Record/ Hospital Information System.
Contents and Components of Medical Record.
Numbering, Filing and Retrieval of Medical Records.
Retention, Preservation and Destruction of Medical Records.
Medico-Legal Cases.
Hospital Statistics.
Case Studies

Course Highlights

Program pedagogy which includes Webinar, Student Faculty Chat by Subject Experts and Project Work.
Reference subject through E-library
Program materials developed by experts
Each block culminating into a qualifying assignment
Credit based teaching outcomes for global application

Learning Outcome

Management of inpatient and outpatient medical records
To understand hospital statistics including bed occupancy rate, bad turnover rate, average length of stay.
To understand morbidity and mortality statistics by ICD-10 coding of diseases and diagnostic indexing.
To understand Filing and retrieval process of medical records
To understand Medical ethics & legal aspects of medical records
To understand the process of Medical Record audit
To understand Information communication technology

Evaluation and Grading

Evaluations will collate candidate performance based on Self Assessment, Term End Assessment, completion of Project Work , participation in Webinar , participation in student-faculty chat.
Grading will be done based on alphabetical grade point percentage.

Certification

At the end of the program the student will be awarded a Certification from Astron Institute of International Studies.