HIT 535 - Leadership

Credit(s) 3.00
Lecture Hours: 3.00
This course provides an overview of supervision and management activities in a health information management department. Emphasis is placed on activities relating to planning, organizing, directing, controlling, and budgeting in a health information management department. Topics include leadership and organizational skills, human resources supervision and management principles and practices, and financial and strategic planning.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in HIT 415, HIT 422, and HIT 485.
SLOs:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Calculate statistics for healthcare operations.
Demonstrate fundamental leadership skills.
Identify the impact of organizational change.
Identify human resource strategies for organizational best practices.
Utilize data-driven performance improvement techniques for decision making.
Utilize financial management processes.
Examine behaviors that embrace cultural diversity.
Identify processes of workforce training for healthcare organizations.