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  • 3.00 Credits

    Develops an understanding of entrepreneurship, its importance for a healthcare organization and the health economy, and the challenges associated with promoting entrepreneurship within healthcare organizations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course addresses the integration of population health into strategic planning and managerial decision-making in health services organizations. Epidemiological principles, social determinates of health, and the improvement of health of the entire population from clinical and managerial perspectives are addressed. This course teaches the necessary fundamentals of data analytics and engages students in the process of analyzing data related to population health topics. Course work includes environmental analysis of community health, and health behaviors and lifestyle that impact demand on health care delivery systems. The student will evaluate models for integration of health services, preventive programs, demand management, and policy issues affecting continuity of care. Prerequisite:    MHA 6000
  • 3.00 Credits

    Human resources management in healthcare organizations including recruitment and selection of employees, benefits and compensation management, privileging and credentialing of health professionals, performance evaluation, staffing plans, labor relations and labor law relevant to health care organizations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The first course in a two-course sequence addressing the accounting and finance knowledge and skills required of successful healthcare managers. It emphasizes the understanding of accounting and finance functions, use and interpretation of documents, reports, and statements, and the ability to work with the accounting and finance professionals in one's organization. Prerequisite:    MHA 6000
  • 3.00 Credits

    Application of financial management techniques to decision making for healthcare providers. Financial management functions and organizations, financial statement analysis, working capital management, present value analysis, capital budgeting, cost of capital, variance analysis, financing techniques, and financial analysis case studies. Prerequisite:    MHA 6000 and MHA 6249
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of the effects of sophisticated quality and health outcome measures as used by individuals, employers and insurers to compare the results of various providers. The course will cover the forces of external customers and in addition to internal pressures to justify costs, provide continuous quality improvement, risk management, and changes within a complex health care system. Course content will include systems behavior and relationships, creating a culture of safety, using measurement to improve quality, fostering teamwork, and understanding the role of risk management in quality improvement. Prerequisite:    HAS 6000 and MHA 6000
  • 3.00 Credits

    Economic analysis applied to health services sector; concept of efficiency applied to production and distribution of health services, health insurance, government programs, health care personnel, and health services organizations; current public policy issues; emphasis on student application of economic principles to health care issues.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Course focuses on concepts for approaching executive decision-making in addressing key strategic, tactical execution, operational, and competitive issues facing healthcare organizations. Emphasis is placed on the development of analytical skills and the use of data to enable effective decision-making and sustained high organizational performance.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Analysis of key attributes of health care policy in selected countries and comparisons with the US health care system. This course includes an international field trip and appropriate travel expenses will be required of the students. Please check with the course instructor for more details.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Via a series of in-depth seminars, dialogues, interactions, and/or lectures with top level clinical leaders and healthcare executives, this course will explore complex and timely healthcare topics and issues of the day from the perspective of successful leaders in the healthcare industry, exploring and analyzing their implementation and application of management and leadership theory and practice as put into effect in a variety of healthcare settings and facilities.