HCI 460 - Leading Change in Healthcare Informatics

5 CR

Previously HCTM 460.
Prepares students for leadership roles in healthcare informatics. Covers leadership characteristics, roles and responsibilities in healthcare informatics. Topics include leadership theories, responsibilities, and skills. Addresses the unique role of leaders in managing transformational change in healthcare informatics. Students will assess their own leadership skills and develop plans for lifelong learning as leaders in healthcare informatics.

Prerequisite(s): HCI 310 and acceptance into program, or permission of instructor.

Course Outcomes

Investigate leadership theory as applied to healthcare settings, including leadership/management roles, power, conflict management, complex systems and communication
Synthesize key components of leadership roles in healthcare informatics
Identify through case studies the role of leaders in successful and unsuccessful healthcare informatics change
Assess personal leadership attributes and develop a plan to address future challenges facing healthcare informatics
Describe the leadership skills needed to respond to the needs of diverse and multicultural employees, clients, and patients

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