Lois Hitchcock Bio

 
 
 
 
Lois M. Hitchcock, MHA, RHIA, CPHQ
Clinical Assistant Professor

Lois Hitchcock has 27 years of diverse health care experience within the health care delivery system. As a part time instructor in the health information management program at UIC, her undergraduate curriculum responsibilities include Introduction to Health care Systems, Management and Business Practices, Health care Data Analysis and Research, and Alternative Health care Records. She teaches the prerequisite BHIS 386 for the Master of Science in Health Informatics program.

As the Administrative Director of Health Information Management at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, she had planning and fiscal responsibility for the HIM department of a 500-bed university hospital. Other experiences include responsibility for development and implementation of the medical record services for a new hospital as the Director of Medical Records. In her position as Manager of Client Services, she was responsible for the installation and implementation of hospital medical record systems for client hospitals.

Lois holds a Master of Science in Health care Administration from University of Laverne in Laverne, California and a Bachelor of Arts in Health Information Administration from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. She is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) from the American Health Information Management Association and Certified Professional in Health care Quality (CPHQ) from the National Association of Health care Quality.