HIMS at Ohio State University

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 HIMS coursework.

• HIMS 5551Healthcare Reimbursement for Practitionersopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• HIMS 5654Health Information Systems Analysis and Designopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• HIMS 5535Clinical Coding Performance and Managementopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIMS 5540Healthcare Data Management and Analysisopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIMS 5635Quality Management and Performance Improvement in Healthcareopens 1 course (1 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 HIMS 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 20 HIMS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 9 more HIMS 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 HIMS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at HIMS 5537

  1. ANATOMY 2300Human Anatomy
  2. HIMS 5535Clinical Coding Performance and Management
  3. HIMS 5537Healthcare Data Trending and Analytics

• 3 courses deep, ending at HIMS 5655

  1. HIMS 3520Fundamentals of Health Information Management
  2. HIMS 5654Health Information Systems Analysis and Design
  3. HIMS 5655Healthcare Database Administration

• 3 courses deep, ending at HIMS 5656

  1. HIMS 3520Fundamentals of Health Information Management
  2. HIMS 5540Healthcare Data Management and Analysis
  3. HIMS 5656Healthcare Business Intelligence

• 3 courses deep, ending at HIMS 5661

  1. HIMS 5610Medical Coding for Clinical Practice
  2. HIMS 5551Healthcare Reimbursement for Practitioners
  3. HIMS 5661Applied Healthcare Analytics

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HIMS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HIMS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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