Dec 08, 2025  
2023-2024 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIM 321 - Foundations of Health Information Management

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
The health information management profession, professional ethics, health information management organizations, data governance, registries, components of a complete health record, statistical analysis, preservation and retention of records, the master patient index, role of the Joint Commission and other accrediting agencies and the medical staff.

Prerequisite(s): HIM 361 , LCHI 207 , and LCHI 303  with a “C” or better.

Corequisite(s): IPHE 310 , HIM 323 , HIM 431 , HIM 460 , and LCHI 466 

Restriction(s): HIM majors only. Completion of all courses in the Freshman and Sophomore curriculum with a minimum grade of “C” in each course and a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5.




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