BUS 231 - Electronic Medical Records

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
Explores the flow of information in a medical office. MediSoft, Office Hours, and MS Word software programs are utilized to process information and produce typical medical office documents, financial records, and insurance claims. Formerly: OT 231.
Prerequisite(s): co-enrolled in CS 100, grade of C or higher in CS 110, or instructor permission.
Course Outcomes:

Utilize Medisoft to record patient encounter transactions and payments.
Utilize Medisoft to create insurance claims, produce patient statements, and print reports.
Demonstrate ability to apply payments to patient ledgers and answer patient questions regarding the balance of their account.
Demonstrate ability to extract or update information in Medisoft database.
Utilize Office Hours software to schedule, revise, and locate patient appointments; print schedules; and keep track of doctors’ availability.
Maintain both paper and electronic financial records of the medical office.
Perform collection tasks.
Understand and apply medical office terminology.
Produce professional correspondence.
Become familiar with the EMR program, Spring Charts and understand what functions it serves, its capabilities and what features interface with Medisoft.

Course Topics:

Medical Office Billing Process and HIPAA
Medisoft and Office Hour: o Entering Patient, Practice, and Insurance Information o Working with Cases o Entering Charge Transactions o Entering Payments and Adjustments o Scheduling o Creating Claims and Statements o Printing Lists Reports o Handling Patient records and transactions
Produce medical office correspondence
Keyboarding Techniques to increase speed and accuracy