OFFICE TECHNOLOGIES (61)

101 Beginning Keyboarding - 3 semester hours

Offered first and second semesters. Offered as demand warrants in summer session. Three hours of lecture, demonstration, 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 semester hours

Offered first and second semesters. Offered as demand warrants in summer session. Three hours lecture, demonstrations, and applications 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.

Offered second semester. Three hours lecture a week.

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.

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

This one-semester course in accounting is designed for non-transfer students. Accounting/bookkeeping principles and procedures for a business operated as a sole proprietorship are presented. Computer software will be used to supplement the teaching of skills.

Offered first and second semesters. Three hours lecture a week.

An analysis of medical terminology designed to give a clear understanding of medical terms on the basis of roots, prefixes, suffixes, and derivatives. Study of body systems is included.

112 Transcription Systems - 3 semester hours

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

Prerequisite: Office Technologies 101 or proficiency in keyboarding.

Offered first and second semesters as demand warrants. Three hours of 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 demanding 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 semester hours

Offered first 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.

Offered second semester and first 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.

Offered first semester and 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.

Prerequisite:   Computer Technology 101, or Office Technologies 101, or proficiency in keyboarding or concurrent enrollment or consent of instructor.

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.

Offered second 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 semester hours

Offered second 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.

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

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

130 Office Procedures and Communications - 3 semester hours

Offered first semester and second 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 semester hours

Offered second semester and first 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.

Prerequisites or Corequisites:  Office Technologies 110 and 118 or consent of instructor

200 Administrative Medical Software - 3 semester hours

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

This course is designed to 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.  

Offered first and second semester as demand warrants. Three hours lecture, demonstrations, and applications a week.

This course will equip today’s professional with hands-on experience in manipulating financial office software.  QuickBooks Po 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 or proficiency in keyboarding or Computer Technology 101.

210 Administrative Office Procedures - 3 semester hours

Offered second semester and first semester 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 regulation, and wellness. 

Prequisite:  Office Technologies 130.
  

212 Medical Office Applications and Procedures ll - 4 semester hours

Offered second semester and first semester as demand warrants. Offered as demand warrants in the summer session. 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.

Offered first semester and second 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.

219 Real Property and Title Examination - 3 semester hours

Offered second 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 semester hours

Offered second semester and first semester as demand warrants. 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. Common diseases and conditions associated with the special terminology as well as 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 semester hours

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

Students will keyboard and format legal documents as well as review legal terminology.  Emphasis is placed o legal document preparation using voice recognition and standard keyboarding. 

Prerequisite: Computer Technology 101, Office Technologies 120, and Office Technologies 101 or proficiency in keyboarding.

230 Legal Procedures and Internship - 3 semester hours

Offered second semester or as demand warrants. Three hours lecture and four hours internship a week.

This course is designed to familiarize students with the various fields of law, the proper preparation of legal documents, and the law process. This course includes a four hour a week internship/practicum in a legal environment.

231 Office Technologies Externship - 3 semester hours

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

Students spend 8 hours each week in a business office setting receiving practical nad 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 business or office site.  Students will not be paid for this externship experience.  This course includes one-hour classroom instruction and discussion a week.

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

232 Intermediate Medical Coding  - 4 semester hours

Offered second semester and first 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 ill 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.

233 Medical Coding Professional Practice - 2 semester hours

Offered second semester and first semester as demand warrants.  Four hour 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 heathcare settings.

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 232 or concurrent enrollment.

234 Intermediate Medical Transcription - 4 semester hours

Offered second semester and first semester as demand warrants.  Four hours lecture a week.

This 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 in healthcare documentation.

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 115.

235 Medical Transcription Professional Practice - 2 semester hours

Offered second semester and first semester as demand warrants.  Four hours laboratory, demonstration, and lecture a week.

This course will provide students with a simulated professional practice experience in medical transcription.  Students will work in a simulated office setting transcribing dictation using both traditional as well as speech recognition techniques.  Students will use all available technology and references to complete assigned transcription. Students will be required to develop an awareness of new and advanced transcription technologies through research and discussion.

Prerequisite:  Office Technologies 234 or concurrent enrollment.