ADDENDUM to the Rasmussen College Catalog 2020-2021 January 29, 2021 operating, personnel, and capital budget process. Opportunities for the health information professional’s role as well as external and internal influences on healthcare financial success are explored. Prerequisites: Program admission HIM 3412 Project Management 40 hours, 4 credits This course explores the application of general principles of project management and methodologies in healthcare. Focus is on the role of a project manager. Students learn to implement project management techniques and oversee and manage project planning activities and team members to facilitate team outcomes. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM 3522 Electronic Health Record Application 70 hours, 5 credits This is a basic medical vocabulary-building course. An emphasis will be placed on the most common medical terms based on prefixes and suffixes, Latin and Greek origins, and anatomic roots denoting body structures. All body systems will be covered with a focus on word parts, terms built from word parts, abbreviations, and basic disease and surgical terms. Students will be expected to focus on spelling and pronunciation. Prerequisite: Program admission HIM 3710 Advanced Quality Management in Healthcare 40 hours, 4 credits This course examines the role of quality management in healthcare. Topics include quality management models, tools, and metrics used to assess healthcare performance. Emphasis is on the evaluation of these methods and tools in demonstrating the outcomes and effectiveness in improving patient care, quality of services, safety, reduction of risk, disease management processes, and utilization and resource management. Students explore the role and impact of governing and accrediting bodies on healthcare quality initiatives. Prerequisites: Program admission HIM 3810 Human Resource Management in Health Information 40 hours, 4 credits This course is the study of human resource principles in the management and supervision of human capital within various healthcare organization settings, including specific evaluation and application of human resources within and relating to health information management functions. Students are exposed to approaches, techniques, and future trends in the management of personnel in healthcare. This course includes a study of employment laws, workforce education and training, performance standards and evaluation, job analysis, labor analytics, benchmarking, trends and market analysis, wage and salary administration, human resource budget analysis, contract management, ergonomic principles, and cost- benefit analysis of human resource needs. Prerequisites: Program admission Add the following course descriptions: ACG 5500 Accounting for Business Analysis 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides an overview of accounting and financial statements used in the decision-making process. Students will interpret various accounting and financial statements to analyze an organization's financial performance and develop investment forecasts. This course equips students with accounting and financial strategies to evaluate how decisions impact the financial position of the organization. Prerequisite: None CDA 3515C Information Technology Systems Analysis 60 hours, 4 credits The emphasis of this course is to define the problem, determine the requirements, and develop a team to support solving complex business problems. The systems analysis life cycle is presented as techniques for systematically developing a plan to resolve current-state challenges. Prerequisite: Management of Information Systems Pre- or co-requisite: Introduction to Networks (or CompTIA Network+ certification) FIN 6466 Financial Analysis and Decision-Making 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides an overview of the financial decision- making process and strategies to ensure the organization allocates assets to maximize return while minimizing risk. Key concepts introduced include financial ethics, corporate finance, financial risk, cost of capital, and risk-reward benefits. Students will analyze financial statements and strategies, appraise organizational investments and determine the financial sustainability of an organization. Prerequisite: ACG 5500 Accounting for Business Analysis GEB 5458 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides an overview of corporate responsibility and sustainability strategies that enhance a company's competitive advantage. Students will study the impact of community involvement, sociological perspectives, ethics, compliance and sustainability on an organization's competitive advantage. This course will also explore differentiating between internal and external stakeholders as well as how politics and government regulations and management of resources for sustainability can influence business decisions. Prerequisite: None This addendum modifies catalog content as indicated, and supersedes all previous addenda. Page 16 / 42