Health school training courses in Durham, NC (public, in-house or online)

This course covers data analysis to support decision making, patient care, and regulatory compliance. Topics include clinical terminology and vocabulary systems, data capture methodology, data presentation and reporting, and initiatives to improve the quality of patient care. Upon completion, students should be able to identify data elements and sets, analyze capture methodology in healthcare settings, analyze compliance issues and make improvement recommendations.

This course provides an introduction to basic personal health and wellness. Emphasis is on current health issues such as nutrition, mental health, and fitness. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the factors necessary to maintain health and wellness. This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a pre-major and/or elective course requirement.

The Health Information Technology curriculum provides individuals with the knowledge and skills to process, analyze, abstract, compile, maintain, manage, and report health information.

Students will observe and participate in departmental functions; classify, code, and index diagnoses and procedures; coordinate information for cost control, quality management, statistics, marketing, and planning; monitor governmental and non-governmental standards; facilitate research; and design system c...

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The Environment, Health, and Safety Technology program prepares students for employment as technicians in the industrial hygiene, occupational safety, and environmental technology fields. The program is designed to provide students with a strong education in the relevant regulations to enable them to work as effective compliance officers and initial emergency response technicians. The program offers a concentrated core of courses that examine regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency; O...

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The Health Information Management program is designed to introduce students to the diversity of healthcare. Students in this program will learn about privacy, confidentiality, electronic medical records, quality management, human resources, and coding and billing. Students will work in a variety of healthcare settings such as hospitals, ambulatory care settings, insurance offices, attorney offices and be able to perform coding, billing and medical record maintenance.

Students will receiv...

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