Curriculum
Health Information Clerk Training Curriculum
Penn Foster’s online Health Information Clerk Program curriculum is designed to prepare learners to be effective on the job from day one. The program covers essential concepts including how to maintain electronic health records, patient confidentiality, and more.
Health Information Clerk
Average completion time: 1-3 mo
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Lesson 1: Customer Service
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Explain the components of fostering positive relations between service provider and patient
- Describe how to develop effective relationships with patients, team members, other personnel, and patients’ families
- State the importance of communicating effectively in the healthcare setting
Lesson 2: Confidentiality in Allied Health
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Analyze the court's role in healthcare information and litigation
- Examine patient's medical record requirements and common issues
- Summarize the common-law basis for confidentiality
- Apply privacy rules to patient information
- Describe OSHA's safety rules
- Identify special types of health information
- Recognize special rules and social-policy issues of HIV patients
- Evaluate risk management's effect on quality and electronic medical records
Lesson 3: Introduction to Medical Terminology
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Summarize the history of medical terminology and how terms are formed
- Describe the relationships among the structures of the body
- Differentiate the positional and directional terms used to describe anatomical locations
- Identify the nutrients that fuel basic body functions
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Lesson 1: Basic Grammar for Allied Health
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Identify the parts of speech
- Recognize subjects, predicates, compound subjects, compound predicates, objects, and clauses
- Explain subject-verb agreement
- Use pronouns correctly
- Use modifiers correctly
- Identify how to write using parallel construction
- Apply the basic rules of punctuation
- Distinguish between words that need to be capitalized and words that do not need to be capitalized
Lesson 2: Professional Communications
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Identify how to handle incoming calls in an office setting
- Recognize how to use telecommunications technology to handle phone calls and to organize phone numbers
- Describe seven components of effective oral communication
- Identify benefits and drawbacks of using email as well as the standard parts of an email
- Explain best practices for composing and sending an email
- Identify the parts of a business letter
- Explain common practices related to sending and receiving domestic and international mail
Lesson 3: Basic Word and Excel
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Explain how to create a Word file
- Apply formats to a document
- Identify how to compose documents with images, shapes, and graphics
- Explain how to create an Excel document
- Recognize how to use Excel to analyze data
- Describe how to create an integrated document
- Describe how to create a mail merge document
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Ebook: The Electronic Health Record for the Physician’s Office, Third Edition
Equipment: SimCharts Access Code
Lesson 1: Electronic Health Records and Security
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Describe the current use and contents of the EHR and describe advantages and disadvantages of EHR
- Explain student resources and EHR available for SimChart for the Medical Office
- Describe HIPAA, the Security Rule, the Privacy Rule, and confidentiality and its effect on patient care
Lesson 2: Electronic Health Records and Security Graded Project
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Complete simulated appointments and patient registrations in SimCharts
Lesson 3: Administrative and Clinical Use of the EHR
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Describe, understand, and use the components of the patient encounter to complete a patient visit
- Understand the reimbursement process, coding systems, and proper documentation for medical necessity of services
Lesson 4: Administrative and Clinical Use of the EHR Graded Project
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Complete administrative and clinical reports in SimCharts
Lesson 5: Reimbursement and Personal Health Records
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Understand the reimbursement process, coding systems, and proper documentation for medical necessity of services
- Describe the use of the personal health record, advantages, and how to maintain this record
Lesson 6: Reimbursement and Personal Health Records Graded Project
By the end of this lesson, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Complete reimbursement and personal health records in SimCharts
Lesson 7: Final Graded Project
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
- Complete reimbursement and personal health records in SimCharts