OFFICE TECHNOLOGIES (61)

101 Beginning Keyboarding - 3 credit hours

Offered fall and spring semesters. Offered as demand warrants in summer session. Three hours of lecture, demonstrations, and applications a week.

This course is designed for the beginner who has little or no keyboarding experience. Emphasis is placed on learning the keyboard using the touch system and applying these skills to the production of written communications.

102 Document Processing - 3 credit hours

Offered fall and spring semesters. Offered as demand warrants in summer sessions. Three hours lecture, demonstrations, and application a week.

This course is designed for the student to develop formatting skills in Microsoft Word to quickly and accurately accomplish realistic document processing tasks. Emphasis is placed on planning, keyboarding, and proofreading..

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 101 or must be proficient in keyboarding.

107 Medical Office Applications and Procedures 1 - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester. Three hours lecture a week. Learning Harbor Fee.

This course will prepare students with administrative skills, needed in the medical office.  These skills include receptionist duties, telephone procedures, appointment scheduling, mail processing, and telecommunications skills. Students will also be introduced to medical office software packages, aseptic techniques and vital signs.

Prerequisite: Computer Technology 101 and Office Technologies 110.

109 Practical Accounting/Bookkeeping - 3 credit hours

Offered spring. Three hours lecture a week.

This one-semester course in accounting is designed for non-transfer students. Accounting/bookkeeping principles and procedures are presented. Students will learn to complete the accounting cycle for a business. Basic payroll and business taxes are introduced.

110 Medical Terminology 1 - 3 credit hours

Offered fall and spring semesters. Three hours lecture a week.

This course provides students with the knowledge of medical language needed to communicate with members of the healthcare team. The course content includes the disease processes, treatments and pharmacology associated with each body system. Students will define medical terms as well as understand the concept of root/suffix/prefix word building.

112 Transcription Systems - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants.   Three hours lecture a week.

 This course provides students with entry-level skills in voice and handwriting recognition and traditional transcription. Document formatting, editing, and proofreading will be stressed. Various writing systems that are used in the office environment are discussed. 

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 101 or proficiency in keyboarding.

115 Fundamentals of Medical Transcription - 3 credit hours

Offered fall and spring semesters as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

This is an introductory course covering the handling and processing of medical records and documents and the transcription of basic medical dictation. Productivity standards will be addressed as well as topics on trends and developments in transcription technology and their impact on medical transcription. Transcription of basic medical dictation, incorporating English usage and machine transcription skills, medical terminology, proofreading and editing skills, and meeting demand accuracy and productivity standards will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 102 and 110, concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.

116 Introduction to Legal Assisting - 3 credit hours

Offered fall semester and as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

This course is designed to provide the students with an overview of the legal assistant profession. Different legal structures and procedures used in law offices will be discussed. Ethical principles pertinent to attorneys and legal assistants will be emphasized.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 120 or concurrent registration.

118 Introduction to Medical Coding - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

This course will address Diagnostic and Procedural coding. The course will broaden coding knowledge and enhance coding skills by covering a variety of medical specialties and coding issues encountered in healthcare providers’ offices.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 110, concurrent enrollment, or consent of instructor.

119 Information Management - 3 credit hours

Offered fall semester an as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Emphasis is placed on information management through the use of e-mail, contact lists, calendars, task lists, journals and notes. Microsoft Office and Outlook will be used. Activities and discussions will also include personal digital information systems. Internet and e-mail ethics/etiquette and other information management technology.

120 Legal Terminology - 3 credit hours

Offered first semester. Three hours lecture a week.

This course is designed to provide knowledge and understanding of terms commonly used in the legal profession. Content of the course includes spelling and definitions of terms in the legal field. Students will gain practical knowledge of terms used daily on the television, radio, electronic media, and newspaper.

123 Litigation - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Examines stages of civil law suits, from pre-trial preliminaries through trial and post-trial procedures. Covers gathering information through client interviews; drafting of pleadings, motions, and other documents; discovery and disclosures; preparation of briefs and memoranda.

124 Torts - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Introduces the elements of tort law; negligence, duty of care, foreseeability, proximate cause, breach, damages and recovery, specific torts, and their defense. Examines pre-trial, trial, and appellate procedures.

126 Legal Research and Writing - 3 credit hours

Offered fall semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Surveys basic legal research techniques; examines judicial decisions, statutes, administrative regulations, digests, encyclopedias and other publications. Emphasizes legal writing and terminology, including legal forms and document formatting.

130 Office Procedures and Communications - 3 credit hours

Offered fall semester and spring semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Students learn procedures for performing administrative support functions in the contemporary business office. Topics include professionalism, interpersonal communications, global/workplace diversity, telephone systems, records management, reprographics, and organizational skills.

131 Acute Care Coding - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Students will concentrate on coding practices in acute care hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers using nationally recognized diagnostic and procedural code sets.

Prerequisite or Corequisite: Office Technologies 110 and 118 or consent of instructor.

200 Administrative Medical Software - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants. Three hours of lecture a week.

This course is designed t offer a general overview of computer software that is used for administrative tasks in acute care as well as ambulatory care facilities. Students will gain a general understanding as well as practical experience in the software applications most commonly used including practice management software, electronic health records, and Microsoft Office as it pertains to transcription and medical office management.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 118

201 Financial Office Software - 3 credit hours

Offered fall and spring semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture, demonstrations, and applications a week.

This course will equip today’s professional with heads-on experience in manipulating financial office software. QuickBooks Pro, Database and spreadsheet software will be used. Emphasis is placed on developing accurate data entry skills. The teaching of accounting concepts will not be included.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 101.

210 Professional Office Procedures - 3 credit hours

Offered fall and spring semesters as demand warrants. Three hours lecture and applications a week.

Students will integrate administrative concepts with office simulations. Emphasis is on the development of administrative decision-making and critical thinking skills. Topics include research, conferencing, global/workplace diversity, banking procedures, human resource management , conflict resolution, government regulations, ad wellness.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 130

212 Medical Office Applications and Procedures ll - 4 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants. Ten hours laboratory a week and one-hour lecture.

Students spend ten hours each week in a hospital or other medical office receiving practical instruction and related experience in many phases of medical secretarial work. Students will be assigned to offices where experience will be gained under professional supervision.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 107 or consent of Program Director.

213 Principles of Medical Insurance - 3 credit hours

Offered fall semester and spring semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

A study of managed healthcare and major medical insurance programs is the emphasis of this course. Topics discussed include insurance terminology, electronic and manual completion and processing of insurance claims, medicolegal issues and billing and collection procedures. Medical terminology and diagnostic and procedural coding will be reviewed.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 118

219 Real Property and Title Examination - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester or as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

This course will examine the basic principles of real property law, including the creation of various estates and interests in land, shared ownership, easements, covenants, mortgages, and deeds of trust. Students will gain practice in the preparation of documents such as leases, sales contracts, settlement statements, deeds, notes, mortgages, and other documents. Students will also be exposed to the rudiments of title examination.

220 Medical Terminology ll - 3 credit hours

Offered fall and spring semesters. Three hours lecture a week.

The course will familiarize the student with advanced medical terminology related to clinical medicine, surgery, laboratory medicine, pharmacology, radiology, and pathology.  Students will gain knowledge of common causes, diagnosis and treatments of diseases by body systems. The use of medical references and other resources for research and practice will be included. 

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 110.

226 Legal Document Preparation/Transcription - 3 credit hours

Offered fall semester or as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Technology will be introduced to perform support functions in the law office. Topics include case management, docket control, timekeeping and billing practices, voice recognition, personal digital systems, and internet marketing.

Prerequisite: Computer Technology 101, Office Technologies 101 and 120.

230 Legal Procedures and Internship - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester or as demand warrants. Three hours lecture a week.

Students learn procedures common to law offices. They also complete a four-hour a wek internship/practicum in a legal environment. Professionalism, ethics, and communicatin skills are reviewed.

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 226.

231 Office Technologies Externship - 3 credit hours

Offered as demand warrants. One hour lecture and eight hours externship a week.

Students spend 8 hours each week in a business office setting receiving practical and skill-related experience in the many phases of office support and management. Students will have an opportunity to gain workplace experience under supervision at arranged busiess or office site. Students will not be paid for the externship experience.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 119, 130, or consent of instructor.

232 Intermediate Medical Coding - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants. Four hours lecture a week.

This course is designed to enhance CPT-4 and ICD-9-CM coding skills. Emphasis will be placed on assigning procedural and diagnostic codes to hospital and physician based records. Students will be made aware of the differences in payment systems for hospitals and physician offices including the use of Diagnosis Related Groupings (DRG) and Ambulatory Payment Classifications (APC). Students will also learn to assign procedural and diagnostic codes through the use of Encoding software.

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 118 and 131.

234 Intermediate Medical Transcription - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants. Four hours lecture a week.

The course is designed to build on the skills learned in entry-level medical transcription. Students will continue to develop medical transcription skills by transcribing prerecorded dictation in a variety of medical specialties and dialects. Students will complete medical dictation using traditional techniques as well as speech recognition. Proofreading and editing skills will be emphasized. Students will also be introduced to specialized transcription software, keyboard shortcuts, transcription references and certification requirements as well as other technologies used n healthcare documentation.

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 115

236 Medical Coding Applications - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants. Two hour lecture and  three hours laboratory a week.

This course will provide students with a simulated professional practice experience in medical coding. Students will assign diagnostic and procedural codes to sample records from a variety of healthcare settings. Students will also become familiar with diagnostic and procedural-based payment systems and emerging technology in the medical coding profession.

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 232 or concurrent enrollment.

237 Medical Transcription Applications - 3 credit hours

Offered spring semester and fall semester as demand warrants.  Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory a week.

In this course, students will work independently in a simulated office setting transcribing dictation using both traditional as well as speech recognition techniques and using all available references. Students will become familiar with the medicolegal aspects of transcription, the transcription code of ethics and new and advanced transcription technologies through research and discussion.

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 234 or concurrent enrollment.

299 Independent Study in Office Technologies - 3 credit hours

Offered as demand warrants.