Meeting & Agendas
Committee
Health Information Technology Advisory Committee
Date
09/02/2014
Status
Approved
Begin Time
03:00 pm
End Time
03:00 pm
Location
Via Email
Online/Remote Url
Agenda:
1)
Description
Approval of Curriculum Changes to Institute the 60-Hour Rule
Presenter
Norma Mercado
Minutes
The ACC Health Information Technology Advisory Board members were
emailed the following document to ascertain approval of curriculum
changes necessary to institute the 60-Hour Rule changes as required
for compliance under Texas Senate Bill 497 – as follows:
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On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:50 PM,
Norma Mercado
wrote:
Dear Austin Community College Health Information Technology
Advisory Board Members:
Attached you will find the degree plan we are proposing
to the Austin Community College in order to be in compliance
with Senate Bill 497 – 60 Hour Rule As follows:
As you will recall from our discussions which began last fall,
all associate degree plans in the college must reduce their number
of required credit hours to 60 hours in order to be in compliance.
After much discussion within the program, with you, our Advisory Board,
and with other community colleges around the state of Texas, we have
arrived at the following reduction plan to meet the requirement.
Specifically, we will institute the following changes:
• HITT 1305 Medical Terminology will be reduced from 3 credit hours
to 1 credit hour
• HITT 1353 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Health Information will be
reduced from 3 credit hours to 2 credit hours
• HITT1349 Pharmacology will be reduced from 3 credit hours to
2 credit hours
• HPRS 2301 Pathophysiology will be reduced from 3 credit hours
to 2 credit hours
• HITT 1260 Clinical – will be reduced from 2 credit hours to
1 credit hour
• HITT 2249 RHIT Competency Review will be reduced from
2 credit hours to 1 credit hour
• HITT 2360 Clinical – will be reduced from 3 credit hours to
2 credit hours
As you will note the coding courses were not reduced due to the
fact that we are now teaching ICD-10- CM and need all of the lecture
hours for those courses. The Health Information Technology Program
arrived at these changes based on a review of the newest Entry Level Competencies, as developed by the Council for Excellence in
Education – Health Informatics and Health Information Management.
A review of the curriculum map as well as a review of the outcomes
from the first students who have completed the RHIT exam provided
the framework necessary to determine where cuts could be made in
the ACC curriculum without sacrificing required and much needed
coursework for program completers. The ACC program also
collaborated with the other community college programs across the
state to make sure that the courses in the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board inventory of approved courses offered the content
needed to support our programmatic changes.
Attached you will find the revised degree plan. I have highlighted in
yellow the courses where reductions in credit hours will be implemented.
Should you have questions or concerns, please call me!
We will need an email response from you by no later than
Thursday at 12 noon indicating your willingness to support the
curriculum revisions, as this is a requirement for The Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board. Please indicated by way of a returned email
that you are in support of the new 60 degree plan.
Norma Mercado, Ed.D., RHIA
Department Chair/Professor
Austin Community College
Health Information Technology Program
3401 Webberville Road, 9210
Austin, Texas 78702
512-223-5928
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The Health Information Technology program consists of eleven
Advisory Board Members whose responses were tallied via email.
The responses were unanimous in support of curriculum changes
proposed to meet the 60-Hour Rule requirements. The tally of the
votes was as follows:
Name of Advisory Board Member Voted Yes For Curriculum Revisions:
Cynthia Colovas, RHIA, Chairperson Site Manager,
HIM, St. David’s Hospital
Jackie Mocygamba, Member Program Chair,
Health Information Management, Texas State University
Barbara Wells, Member
Director of Business Services, North Austin Surgery Center
Martha Hurtado, RHIA – Member Director of HIM Operations,
Shoal Creek Hospital
Melissa Edenburn, RHIA –Member Contract Coder
Robin Larkin - Member Director of Business Services,
Bailey Square Surgery Center
Ron Modesty – Member Senior Employer Coordinator,
CapitalIdea, Inc
Donna Carl, MLA, RHIA – Member
HIM Site Manager,
Seton NW and Seton SW Hospitals
Sharon Moody – Member
HIM Manager, CommUnity Care
The following Advisory Board members did not respond:
Nancy Laudenbacker – Member Director, Workforce
Development Center
Austin Community College
Bette Korkendourf – Member
Health Professions Institute Coordinator, Austin Community College
Guests:
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