Health Information Technology

Academic Requirements

Review the degree requirements on TCC's College Catalog

Degree Requirements

Non-Academic Requirements

Professional Practice Experience internships for the program require:

• Criminal and federal fraud background checks
• Health insurance
• Immunizations
• Vehicle insurance (where applicable)
• 80 hours of in-person, onsite clinical experience

Accreditation  

The Health Information Management accreditor of Tacoma Community College is the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management (CAHIIM). The College’s accreditation for associate degree in Health Information Management has been reaffirmed through 2029-2030.

All inquiries about the program’s accreditation status should be directed by mail to

CAHIIM
200 East Randolph Street, Suite 5100
Chicago, IL, 60601
phone at 312.235.3255
email at info@cahiim.org

Certification Information

In accordance with U.S. Department of Education Regulation 34 CFR 668.43 (a) (5) (v), educational institutions must provide information related to whether their programs will fulfill educational requirements for specific professional licensure or certification and to inform prospective students whether their degree upon graduation will qualify them to work in the state where they are located.  Graduates of the HIT program are eligible to sit for the RHIT exam, which is valid in every state.

Program Effectiveness Outcomes

TCC’s HIT AAS program stives to provide the best learning environment for success on the RHIT exam.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Apply policies and procedures surrounding data structure, data content, and information governance. (COK,COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
2. Evaluate health recod, data dictionary and data set regulatory and accreditation compliance. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
3. Apply legal and information protection solutions for maintaining privacy, confidentiality and security of health information. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
4. Apply informatics and analytics concepts to health data use and technologies such as clinical decision support, statistical calculations, graphical representations, research methodologies, and data management. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
5. Evaluate the management of database systems and health information exchange standards. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
6. Apply revenue cycle policies and coding methodologies in accordance with guidelines. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
7. Evaluate revenue cycle processes and compliance with regulatory requirements and reimbursement methodologies. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
8. Identify legislation, legal processes, health policy, and risk management concepts that affect health information. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
9. Demonstrate leadership skills that adhere to equity, diversity and inclusion policies, human resource strategies and performance improvement techniques for workforce training, organizational change, and financial management. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, ICD, RES)
10. Evaluate compliance with federal regulations and ethical standards of practice. (COK, COM, CRT, IIT, RES)
11. Identify major concepts of supportive knowledge to include pathophysiology, pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, statistics and computer applications. (COK, COM, CRT)