Houston Community College serves approximately 70,000 students, with about 8 percent of those students being from outside the United States. The college has approximately 4,000 employees with over 800 full-time faculty. Houston Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The Associates of Applied Science in Health Information Technology program encompasses coursework, from anatomy and physiology to billing and coding of medical records.
Established in 1965, Arapahoe Community College was the first two-year community college in Colorado. Based in Littleton, the college serves over 18,000 students in over 100 degree and certificate programs, including Health and Information Technology. Arapahoe is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Requirements for entrance into the Health and Information Technology program are a minimum of a GED certificate and placement test scores in reading sentence skills, reading comprehension and math. The Health and Information Technology program at Arapahoe is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management.
Ivy Tech Community College, based in Indianapolis, is the largest public post-secondary institution in Indiana with 23 campuses and almost 200,000 students per year. The Health Information Technology program at Ivy Tech is designed to prepare students for a career as a medical records analyst, medical compliance officer or health information management supervisor. Approximately 69 credit hours of coursework are required for degree completion, including work in the areas of health information, medical terminology and medical coding.
Metropolitan Community College is located in Kansas City, Missouri and has approximately 18,000 students over five campuses. Up until 2005, the campuses were each separate colleges and are located in Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, Blue River and Blue Springs. Metropolitan Community College offers over 80 career programs, including Health Information technology. The associates degree program requires 69 credit hours of study in areas such as pathology, physiology and pharmacology to provide students a foundation for their medical records career.