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Sep 15, 2026
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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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