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Program Description
Health Information Technology (HIT) is the combination study of healthcare and information technology, and the PCC program provides a competencies and a solid foundation for employment anywhere in the revenue cycle – from a patient’s first appointment to the time the bill is paid in full.
The need for health information skills is growing in all areas of healthcare, creating opportunities for the health information professional to narrow or broaden their scope of practice through new and innovative roles within the healthcare field, such as working with data analysis, information technology, management and administration, communication, collaboration, education and training, regulatory compliance and privacy, documentation, research, quality improvement, and more.
After completing the stringent processes through the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) to be identified with the AHIMA Professional Certificate Approval Program (PCAP) and successfully earning the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) accreditation, PCC HIT students are not only prepared to earn the AHIMA Medical Coding Credentials, they are eligible to sit for the Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) credentialing exam.
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