HIM at University of Illinois Chicago

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate HIM coursework.

• HIM 450Health Information Technology and Systemsopens 10 courses (6 directly)
• HIM 322Fundamentals of Health Record and Data Managementopens 8 courses (4 directly)
• HIM 534Healthcare Vocabularies and Clinical Classification Systemsopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• HIM 454Legal Aspects, Risk Management, and Security of Health Informationopens 6 courses (4 directly)
• HIM 557Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management and Complianceopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• HIM 452Quality Management and Data Analysisopens 3 courses (3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate HIM work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 30 HIM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 more HIM courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HIM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 8 courses deep, ending at HIM 593

  1. HIM 451Health Information Management Theory and Practice
  2. HIM 450Health Information Technology and Systems
  3. HIM 454Legal Aspects, Risk Management, and Security of Health Information
  4. HIM 557Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management and Compliance
  5. HIM 452Quality Management and Data Analysis
  6. HIM 574Health Information Research Methods and Evaluation
  7. HIM 595Health Information Management Seminar
  8. HIM 593Health Information Management Capstone

• 5 courses deep, ending at HIM 434

  1. HIM 410Introduction to the Health Care System
  2. HIM 322Fundamentals of Health Record and Data Management
  3. HIM 432Coding and Classification Systems

• 4 courses deep, ending at HIM 343

  1. HIM 410Introduction to the Health Care System
  2. HIM 322Fundamentals of Health Record and Data Management
  3. HIM 329Legal Aspects of Health Information Management

• 4 courses deep, ending at HIM 374

  1. HIM 410Introduction to the Health Care System
  2. BHIS 460Introduction to Health Informatics
  3. HIM 337Analysis of Health Care Data

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HIM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HIM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

HIM does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UIC campus feed.