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HIM - Health Information Management

HIM 200

SURVEY OF HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION

(3.00 CR.)

Provides an overview of healthcare. Prepares the student with the essential vocabulary and thought processes to understand and evaluate the legal, political and ethical challenges facing healthcare in the US needed for a supervisory role in healthcare administration. Introduces healthcare policy, how healthcare is organized and dispensed, and how the practitioner can better work in the system. Lecture 3 hours per week.