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Texts for future semesters are subject to change

ISBN # Listed is for edition in use at time of page construction. Newer additions, if available, will be used in all courses and will have a new ISBN #.

Updated 11/10/2009

PLEASE READ REGARDING PURCHASE OF BOOKS: 

Books are not routinely ordered through the UMDNJ university bookstore. Students with Financial Aid Vouchers are often required to purchase books through university bookstore. If for this or any other reason you plan to purchase your textbooks through the UMDNJ bookstore, you must inform the HIM program director at least 4 weeks prior to the start of the course so that the books can be ordered. Students are required to have listed books for first day of class.  

STUDENTS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF AHIMA WILL SAVE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT ON THE PURCHASE PRICE OF AHIMA PUBLISHED TEXTS WHEN PURCHASED DIRECTLY THROUGH AHIMA AT www.ahima.org.

THE FOLLOWING TEXT MUST BE PURCHASED BY ALL HIM MAJORS.  IT WILL BE USED THROUGHOUT THE HIM PROGRAM AND IS NOT LISTED INDIVIDUALLY BY COURSE.

TITLE: Health Information Management: Concepts, Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition
AUTHOR: LaTour, KM and Eichenwald, S (Editors)
ISBN#: 978-1-58426-217-6 AHIMA Product # AB103309

COURSE: BINF 3010 Medical Terminology
TITLE: Language of Medicine
AUTHOR: Chabner, D.
ISBN#: 1416034927

COURSE: BINF 3110 Legal Aspects of Health Information
TITLE: Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Information Management
AUTH 1-58426-173-5

PUBL: AHIMA Product AB241807

COURSE: BINF 3125 Development & Retention
TITLE: Documentation for Medical Records, 2009
EDITORS: Odom-Wesley, Brown, D and Meyers, C.L.
AHIMS PRODUCT #: AB100708     OSBN 978-1556483615

COURSE: BINF 3301 Classification and Reimbursement Systems
TITLE: Effective Management of Coding Services, 3rd Edition  
EDITOR:  Schaffenberger, L (Ed.)
ISBN# 1-58426-169-2 
AHIMA Product # AC100007

COURSE: BINF 3302 Basic ICD-9-CM Coding

TITLE: 2010 ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook w/o Answers
AUTHOR/PUBL: Brown, F/American Hospital Association

TITLE: 2010 ICD-9-CM Professional Version for Hospitals Vol 1,2,3 
(Other versions permitted as long as they contain Vol 1,2,3 and are current year editions)
AUTHOR/PUBL: Ingenix

TITLE: Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary
AUTHOR: Mosby
ISBN#: 0-323-049375 (may substitute with any other medical dictionary)

COURSE: BINF 3303 Basic CPT-4 Coding

TITLE: Step-by-Step Medical Coding 2010

AUTHOR: Buck, C.J.

ISBN #: 9781416068365

TITLE: 2010 Current Procedural Terminology
AUTHOR/PUBL.: American Medical Association
Professional Edition Preferred but other editions acceptable as long as they are current year.

TITLE: 2010 ICD-9-CM Professional Version for Hospitals Vol 1,2,3 
(Other versions permitted as long as they contain Vol 1,2,3 and are current year editions)
AUTHOR/PUBL: Ingenix

COURSE: BINF 3411 & 3412 Disease Pathology I & II, 3rd Ed.
TITLE: Pathophysiology for Health Professions
AUTHOR: Gould, B
ISBN: 1416025731 (or current edition)

COURSE: BINF 3619 DIRECTED PRACTICE
No new text required for purchase.

COURSE: BINF 3629 HIM Seminar I
TITLE: Case Studies in Health Information Management.
AUTHOR: McCuen et al.
ISBN: 1-4180-5546-8

COURSE: BINF 4210 Health Statistics
TITLE: Calculating & Reporting Healthcare Statistics, current edition.
AUTHOR: Horton, Loretta
Publisher - AHIMA (New Edition - July 2009)

ISBN is:  978-1-5842-215-7

TITLE: Essentials of Statistics in Health Information Technology., current edition.
AUTHOR: Osborn, Carol
Publisher - Jones and Bartlett Publishers

ISBN is:  978-0-7637-5034-3  

COURSE: BINF 4310 Performance Improvement
TITLE: Quality & Performance Improvement in Health Care, 4th Ed.
AUTHOR: Shaw/Elliot
ISBN#: 1-58426-216-9
Note: Publisher - AHIMA Product # 102709

COURSE: BINF 4220 Guided Research Project
TITLE: Health Informatics Research Methods: Principles and Practice
AUTHOR: Layman, E.J. and Watzlaf, V.J.

AHIMA PRODUCT #: AB120908

COURSE: BINF 4525 HIM Seminar II
TITLE: Case Studies in Health Information Management.
AUTHOR: McCuen et al.
ISBN: 1-4180-5546-8

TITLE: 2009* Professional Review Guide for RHIA and RHIT Examination

AUTHOR: Schnering, P

ISBN: 143548536

PUBL: Delmar Cengage Learning

*Please note the 2010 edition will not be available in time for this class.

COURSE: BINF 5005 Healthcare Information Systems

TITLE: Health Care Informatics

AUTHOR: Englebardt, S and Nelson, R

PUBL: Mosley

ISBN: 0-323-01423-2

TITLE: Handbook of Informatics for Nursing and Health Professionals

AUTHOR: Hebda, T and Czar, P

PUBL: Prentice Hall 2008

ISBN: 0135043948

COURSE: BINF 4619 MANAGEMENT AFFILIATION
No new text are required for this course.

THE FOLLOWING “IDST” COURSES ARE REQUIRED FOR THE BS HIM.  AS THEY ARE TAUGHT BY ANOTHER DEPARTMENT, THE LISTED TEXTS ARE THOSE USED IN THE LAST SEMESTER.  STUDENTS SHOULD CHECK WITH THE INSTRUCTOR PRIOR TO PURCHASE TO DETERMINE IF THE TEXT ASSIGNED HAS CHANGED.

COURSE: IDST 3510 Principles of Scientific Inquiry
No text required.  On-line Journal Articles. 

COURSE: IDST 3400 Computers in Health Care


COURSE: IDST 4116 Health Care Finance
TITLE: Financial Management of Hospitals and Health Care Organizations, current ed.
AUTHOR: Nowicki, M
PUBL: Health Administration Press, Chicago, Il.

COURSE: IDST 4117 Health Services Management
TITLE: Management Principles for Health Professionals
AUTHOR: Liebler, Joan; McConnell, Charles
PUBL:  Aspen Publishers, Inc

COURSE: IDST 4300 Human Resources Management in Healthcare
TITLE: Human Resources in Healthcare:  Managing for Success
AUTHOR: Johnson J and Fried B.
PUBL:  Assoc. of Univ. Programs in health Administration Press

 

 

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