Electronic Medical Record for Medical Assisting

Prerequisite or corequisite: None.  This course uses various activities throughout each chapter to help enforce what the student is learning. These activities may include games, diagrams, video, and audio sections. This course will include an overview of commonly available software tools used in health care by major vendors, including introduction to encoding tools. It will also introduce the electronic health record process; computer assisted coding, health information data analysis and data collection activities at the regional and national levels.