HIT 252 - Clinical Quality Assurance and Continuous Quality Improvement

This course provides orientation to the concepts and methodologies of quality assurance, Utilization review and risk management, total quality management (TQM), and continuous quality improvement (CQI), and their operation in facilities. The presentation of data, the tumor registry, and the role of healthcare information technicians in abstracting tumor data for statistical analysis and evaluation is also presented. Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.) is used in lab assignments.