HIT 222 - Law & Ethics for Health Information

This course explores legal and ethical standards relevant to the health information management profession. This includes legislation, HIPAA, consent, release of information, liability, end-of-life law, fraud, and ethical decision making.

Credits: 3
Hours
3 Lecture Hours
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

Identify Protected Health Information (PHI) and apply privacy, confidentiality, and security strategies.
Demonstrate compliance expectations with court orders, legislation, and professional liability standards.
Recognize and articulate ethical issues impacting health information management.
Identify, analyze, and evaluate potential actions from legislation regulation, regulatory standards, and judicial processes impacting health information management, in order to develop logical and well-reasoned mitigation strategies.
Recognize limitations such as perspective and bias, instances of conflict of interest and recommend strategies for prevention.
Differentiate among abuse, fraud, misconduct, and associated consequences.
Evaluate legal and ethical issues related to advance directives and end-of-life decisions.

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