Health Information Technology
Associate of Applied Science
Students who wish to specialize in medical front office support or medical transcription should pursue the Health Information Technology certificate.
Program/Major Codes: AASOAH/OAH
What can I do with this degree?
Career Options: Find entry-level employment as a medical coder, or medical billing and insurance claims specialist, or physician or hospital coder.
Academic Options: Continue your studies by working toward a degree in another business field.
Program Requirements
Program Prerequisites
Before enrolling in this program, you must fulfill the following requirement.
| Credits | |
| CSA 100 or have a keyboarding proficiency at 35+ wpm | 0-1 |
| Subtotal | 0-1 |
General Education Requirements
This section lists general education requirements that are not fulfilled by core or support courses. *
| Credits | ||
| Analysis and Critical Thinking Requirement | 2 | |
| Humanities and Social Science Requirement | 6 | |
| Subtotal | 8 | |
Required Core Courses
| Course # | Coruse Title | Credits |
| HIT 100 | Introduction to Health Information Management | 3 |
| HIT 101 | Introduction to ICD Coding | 3 |
| HIT 102 | CPT Coding | 3 |
| HIT 105 | Medical Terminology | 4 |
| HIT 112 | Health Insurance and Medical Billing |
3 |
| HIT 125 | Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for HIT |
4 |
| HIT 175 | Health Information Statistics and Research |
4 |
| HIT 202 | Hospital Procedural Coding | 3 |
| HIT 210 | Medical Quality Assurance and Supervision | 3 |
| HIT 211 | Medicolegal Aspects in Health Information Management | 3 |
| HIT 225 | Health Management Information Systems Projects |
3 |
| or HIT 290 | Health Information Technology Internship | |
| Subtotal | 36 | |
Required Support Courses
| Course # | Course Title | Credits |
| BIO 160IN | Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology | 4 |
| CSA 101 | Computer Fundamentals | 3 |
| CSA 110 | Spreadsheets: Microsoft Excel | 3 |
| WRT 101 | Writing I |
3 |
| WRT 102 | Writing II |
3 |
| Subtotal | 16 | |
| Total | 60-61 | |
* Other general education requirements are fulfilled by required core and support courses: Communication - WRT 101 and WRT 102; Analysis & Critical Thinking - BIO 160IN fulfills 4 credits of this requirement. Complete a course from this category and the math competency must be met; Computer and Information Literacy - CSA 101.