Healthcare Informatics (HCIT)
HCIT-180 Medical Law and Ethics
3 Credits
Lecture: 3 hours per week
Offering: Fall Only, All Years
This course emphasizes the basic foundation of the legal system as it applies to health care practitioners in the United States, including legal and ethical principles affecting medical office, health care, and health information management professionals. This course focuses on privacy and security regulations, scope of practice, malpractice and negligence, fraud and abuse, credentialing, risk management, release of information, breach reporting, informed consent, federal and state law related to health care, and patient rights and responsibilities.