HIT 118 Intro to Healthcare Documentation
introduces students to the healthcare documentation curriculum. Computer skills such as saving and transferring files, auto text, and autocorrect in Word are covered as well as career roles and responsibilities. The Book of Style is utilized in this course so students can become familiar with guidelines for healthcare documentation including formatting medical records, acceptable abbreviations in the medical field, pharmacology terminology, grammar, proofreading, and acceptable editing. Medical reports are utilized to help students with proper formatting and build proofreading and editing skills. Students will also be required to download physician dictation to prepare for HIT 142 Healthcare Documentation 1 as well as pass a 45 corrected words per minute typing test by the end of the semester. This course is applicable toward all certificates, AAS, ALS (credit hours 3.0, lecture hours 2.0, lab hours 2.0).