290 Lifestyle Management through Systems Analysis (3:3:0) Students make resolutions (e.g., maintain a healthy diet, exercise more, etc.) and analyze their lifestyle to see what is causing and preventing success. Each student maintains a diary and analyzes it using Bayesian causal modeling techniques to understand the constraints and causes leading to successes and failures. Students analyze their pattern of success using statistical process control tools and engage in cycles of self improvement.
302 Health Care Finance (3:3:0) Introduces finance in health care organizations. Reviews issues in reimbursement structures, regulatory mechanisms, cost control, and related factors affecting financial management of health service organizations including financial decision support skills.
303 Strategic Health Management and Planning (3:3:0) Introduces past and present interventions that affect supply and demand for health care at community, state, regional, and national levels. Presents health planning and regulatory entities, and discusses strategic and program planning in context of current economic and market conditions.
307 Assisted-Living Management and Philosophy (3:3:0) Overview of growth of assisted living industry, its role in health care continuum, current or proposed regulatory environments, and differences between assisted living and other forms of senior health care and senior living services. Specific instruction provided in philosophy and day-to-day management of assisted-living communities, including resident care, operations, finance and budgeting, human resources and staffing, and successful marketing and community relations. Also examines industry future, including cutting-edge programs and technologies, and approaches to creating next generation of assisted-living services.
320 Management of Project Resources (3:3:0) Prerequisites: HAP 360 or related course, HAP 378 or related course. An introductory course in the management of project resources, including, but not limited to, assessing return on investment for projects and costing out resources needed in project subtasks. Includes hands-on application of project management tools as they are applied in the health-related organization and the health service industry. Also includes a variety of variables that may affect cost control and cost variation, including the impact of finishing projects in shorter time frames than originally planned and activity-based costing.
334 Role Development for Health Administration Majors (3:3:0) Explores career opportunities that build on basic education in health science field. Includes historical perspectives on ethical, legal, political, social, and cultural issues related to health care policy and research. Explores multidisciplinary collaboration among health care providers.
360 Introduction to Health Information Systems (3:3:0) An introduction to basic information management in health care service organizations. Provides an overview of health information systems for selected administrative functions and clinical care services, including electronic data interchange for billing and claims management, institutional approaches to ensuring data security and privacy, and information management and decision support for managers and clinicians.
378 Health Care Delivery in the United States (3:3:0) Introduces history and current structure and function of U.S. health care delivery. Explores components and subsystems of health care, and sociopolitical (public and private) context that shapes system and affects access to health care and delivery of health services.
410 Introduction to Health/Medical Practice Management (3:3:0) An introductory course in the leadership and management of ambulatory health service practices and small provider organizations. Content covers a variety of health/medical practice management functions, including administrative systems, operations and strategies for effective management of quality, efficiency and business performance (contracts and marketing), and human resources. Trends in practice integration and affiliations with multiprovider groups and larger enterprises will be covered.
416 Leadership and Management of Health Systems I (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of HAP 300-level course requirements. Introduces theoretical concepts and their application to the leadership and management of effective health care organizations. Explores the structure and function of health-related organizations and selected administrative and operational issues in program development and service design, emphasizing strategies for effective performance management, decision making, and communication.
417 Leadership and Management of Health Systems II (3:3:0) Prerequisite: completion of HAP 416. Explores challenges to providing effective leadership and management of health care organizations and systems of care related to operational issues such as personnel management and labor relations, information management, conflict and goal alignment, financial management, accountability, and quality and safety improvement. Focuses on identification of management skills, technology, and strategy that influence optimal performance and communication between clinicians, administrative staff, and managers.
447/HAP 547 Regulatory Requirements for Health Care Systems (3:3:0) Helps health care professionals understand link between infrastructures of organization and regulatory and accreditation processes for health care organizations. Covers major accrediting agencies and their roles, accreditation principles, and survey process. Focuses on hospitals with reference to ambulatory care, managed care organizations, rehabilitation centers, laboratories, and home health and long-term care facilities. Emphasizes requirements of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organization and regulations mandated by Health Care Finance Administration.
460 Information Technology Project Management (3:3:0) Focuses on project management as applied to management of health care information technology projects. Students learn critical path analysis, project resource management, crashing projects, vendor selection, assessment of project quality, and analysis of project risks. Students learn to use media for effective project communication.
494 Special Topics in Health Administration and Policy (3:3:0) Selected topics analyzing specialized areas in health administration and policy. Content varies. Lecture, seminar, laboratory, and workshops.
498 Health Administration Internship (6:2:12) Prerequisite: open to HAP majors only. Taken in last semester of studies. Capstone course involves a two-hour weekly seminar and a 12-hour internship in a health-related organization. Provides variety of applied management experiences in a health systems or related organization (field agency), under the direction of a HAP faculty member and a preceptor in the field. Students integrate and apply critical-thinking, project-planning, and management and communication skills in the internship experience and toward completion of an approved internship project. Not repeatable for credit.
499 Independent Study in Health Administration and Policy (1–3:0:0) Prerequisite: permission of college. Provides individual study of a particular problem area in health administration and policy research, theory development, or education under the direction of faculty. May be repeated for maximum 6 credits.
501 Business Statistics in Health Service Management (3:3:0) An introductory course in basic statistics applied to applications in health systems management. Students use spreadsheet applications to perform a variety of statistical analyses (parametric and nonparametric statistics, including regression) to support program evaluation and managerial decision making in health systems.
512 Introduction to Health Services Research (3:3:0) Prerequisites: HAP 678 (if required in program of study) and HAP 501 or equivalent statistics course. An introductory course in the basic methods of interdisciplinary health services research and program evaluation in health systems and policy. The course covers topics related to policy, management, and program effect and evaluation within health delivery systems, including research design, existing data systems, measurement of quality and basic cost benefit, and effectiveness analysis.
540 Introduction to Emergency Preparedness/Disaster Recovery for Health Care Professionals (3:2:1) Introductory course in emergency preparedness and disaster recovery issues for health and human service professionals, using blended learning methods. Introduces policy guiding public and private sector emergency preparedness activities, and provides overview of issues in emergency preparedness infrastructure, needs assessment, and interdisciplinary roles in emergency response operations. Uses knowledge acquired from recent state and federal responses to disasters.
542 Health Policy (3:2:1) Explores development of public health policy, influence of health care delivery, nursing, and other health professions. Classroom and field experience required.
546/NURS 546 Leadership Strategies in Health Policy (3:3:0) Examines the leadership process from a policy and organizational perspective to expand students’ ability to impact the health policymaking process.
547/HAP 447 Regulatory Requirements for Health Care Systems (3:3:0) Helps health care professionals understand link between infrastructures of organization and regulatory and accreditation processes for health care organizations. Covers major accrediting agencies and their roles, accreditation principles, and survey process. Focuses on hospitals with reference to ambulatory care, managed care organizations, rehabilitation centers, laboratories, and home health and long-term care facilities. Emphasizes requirements of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organization and regulations mandated by Health Care Finance Administration.
586 Process Improvement in Health Services (3:3:0) Examines how improved work processes lead to quality improvement. Explores contribution of operations research and quality management to improve delivery and production of health services and business processes from the perspective of health care managers.
594/GCH 594/NURS 594 Special Topics in Health Care (3:3:0) Selected topics analyzing specialized areas in health care. Content varies. Lecture, seminar, laboratory, and workshops.
601 E-Commerce and On-line Marketing for Health Services (3:3:0) Explores development of online health services; organization of online businesses; online marketing, financial, and clinical transactions; and venture capital and the IPO process. Explores creating and maintaining web pages and databases. Reviews literature on effect of computer services on patient care and health care organizations. Also reviews examples of both successful and bankrupt technology firms in health care. Student groups draft business plan and develop early version of service proposal.
609 Comparative International Health Systems (3:3:0) An online course in comparative international health care systems. Uses Roemer’s Model of Health Systems to examine resource allocation, management and health outcomes in the Uniteds States and around the globe. The structure and functioning of national health systems based on geographic location and governance in developing and developed countries (democracies, monarchies, and communist nations). Resource allocation across the continuum of nations and relationship to national health needs, health status, and longevity are examined.
610 Health/Medical Practice Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: health care financial management or equivalent or instructor’s permission. Regulatory pressures, technology, managed care contracting, revenue cycle management, and legal issues are making medical practice management more complex. Physicians groups struggling with these demands are finding a need for sophisticated management. This course prepares the student to manage the modern practice by providing a foundation in the leadership and management of ambulatory health services and small provider organizations.
611 Computer Programming within Health Care Environment (3:3:0) Focuses on use of M computing program and its incorporation into electronic health records. Includes scientific principles for easy-to-maintain software programs. Includes writing of special routings for Electronic Health Record (HER), preferably VISTA.
612 Maintaining Business Continuity in Health Care (3:3:0) Considers potential types of catastrophes, their likely impact, and how organizations could continue their mission in the aftermath. Explores interdependences among various components of the health care delivery system, regional health services, disaster planning, business record protection, patient information and information systems protection, manpower planning, professional credentialing, access to supplies and drugs, and financial implications and resources.
613 Project Management in Health Information Technology (3:3:0) Covers the body of knowledge in project management as applied to information technology and prepares students to take project management professional certification exam. Includes needs assessment, project planning, project cost analysis, project control, project risks, and management of personnel within projects.
621 Management of Health Service Organizations (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to CHHS graduate program or permission of instructor. Introductory course in application of organizational and management theory relating to management of health service organizations. Emphasizes leadership and trends in organizational structure that affect performance effectiveness, quality and interorganizational relations, and values and principles of health management as a profession. Explores challenges of managing health professionals’ decision making, power gradients, change, and other issues that affect function and performance of health service organizations. Introduces strategies used by learning organizations.
650 Assisted Living Management and Operations (3:3:0) Issues, trends, and practices related to administration of assisted-living and senior housing communities. Emphasizes budgeting; staffing; hospitality services; resident care and risk management indicators; and evaluation of demographic, cultural, and regulatory environments affecting industry.
660 Health Policy Formation and Implementation (3:3:0) Applies selected methods for studying theory and practice of health policy formulation and converting a policy into administrative decisions and a plan of action. Emphasis on acquiring a basic working knowledge of health system and problem complexity and evaluation of policy impact using contemporary health policy examples and case studies. Indentifies the institutional determinants of health policy formation and implementation, including special interest and stakeholder groups and their interaction.
661 Policy Development and Analysis for Community Health Programs (3:3:0) Prepares students to critically analyze issues and develop skills pertinent to effective policy development for community and family public health programs. Explores what constitutes a vulnerable population and examines current government programs and policies supporting these programs for such populations. Recent case examples ground students in current issues faced by community groups and other health interests.
662 Aging and Health Care Policy (3:3:0) Prerequisite or corequisite: GCH 637, SOCI 599, or NURS 659; or permission of instructor. Focuses on policy perspective in relation to older adults in community and long-term care facilities. Students analyze policy issues and health care delivery systems as they affect older adults through lecture, discussion, field trips, projects, and policy analysis papers.
678 Introduction to the U.S. Health System (3:3:0) Prerequisite to all other certificate courses for students who do not have familiarity with all aspects of U.S. health care system and recent working experience. Explores structure, function, and financing of U.S. health care delivery systems. Explores development of various subsystems of care and ways public, private, and social forces influence politics of health care, shape the system, and affect public health. Includes analysis of systems infrastructure and sociopolitical context of U.S. health care system.
680 Applied Public Health Leadership and Management (3:3:0) Survey course in leadership, management, and planning applied to public health systems. Students apply theoretical knowledge from a variety of disciplines relevant to development and implementation of public health policy, regulatory directives, public health program planning and management (including human resources and financial management), and the design and evaluation of public health services/functions. Content includes strategies for ensuring access to essential public health services and use of evaluation and monitoring systems to ensure the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of local public health programs/systems. Course emphasizes leadership, communication, systems thinking, data-driven decision making, and ethical practice in public health systems.
690 Independent Study (1-3:1-3:0) In-depth studies of selected area of health science theory, research, or practice under direction of faculty. May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credits.
702 Managerial Accounting in Health Care (3:3:0) Practical examination of controllership function in health care organizations and systems (profit and nonprofit), with emphasis on policy formulation and evaluation of performance, including cost methods and systems; measurement criteria; and managerial planning, methods, and techniques.
703 Financial Management in Health Systems (3:3:0 Prerequisites: admittance to graduate program and working knowledge of health care industry. Examines tools and methods of financial management in health care organizations and systems, with emphasis on allocation and use of funds. Analyzes costs and constraints of alternative source of funds, and applies financial decision instruments and effect on operational management and market value of entity.
704 Contemporary Issues in Health Systems Management (3:3:0) Analyzes management theory and practice from recently evolving works that identify, analyze, and resolve strategic organizational problems and issues in health care systems. Applies leadership strategy to effectively manage variety of critical issues, including organizational development, change management, human relations and diversity, quality management for organizational and clinical effectiveness, technology, competing priorities, conflicting constituencies, delivery system redesign, and health services research.
705 Strategic Management and Marketing in Health Care (3:3:0) Develops executive skills for strategic decision making through use of marketing-based tools and techniques. Covers strategic planning, market research and opportunity and risk analysis, customer assessment, market segmentation, and life cycle assessment for health care services in managed-care and nonmanaged-care environments.
706 Integrated Health Systems Management (3:3:0) Explores emerging structures for financing and delivery of comprehensive health services in integrated health systems. Covers successful development and management of alliances, provider hospital organizations, and managed care systems with emphasis on strategies for vertical integration, community partnering, contract negotiation, governance, and management of antitrust situations.
709 Health Care Databases (3:3:0) Introduces design and use of health and medical databases, providing hands-on experience. Explores uses of medical record systems. Includes review and analysis of databases and database management systems. Examines application of databases to clinical and managerial transaction.
710 Inferential Statistics in Health Services Research and Management (3:2:1) Prerequisite: HAP 501 or equivalent introductory graduate statistics course and lab. Introduction and practical application of advanced statistical analyses and their use/application in health services (research, management, policy analysis) using various software applications (STATA, Microsoft Excel and Access, SAS, SPSS, MINITAB). Topics include analysis of variance (one and two way) and design of experiments, multiple regression, model building, chi-square and the analysis of contingency tables, and nonparametric statistics.
711 Hardware and Networking in Health Care Environment (3:3:0) Focuses on the operating system, network of computers, and noncomputing hardware. Students learn to connect imaging and other equipment to electronic health records and provide electronic services online. Includes configuration of laboratory and imaging systems to VISTA electronic health record.
712 Topics in Public Policy (3:3:0) Presents selected topics current in public policy related to health care and health care administration.
715 Health Economics (3:3:0) Emphasizes understanding of economic efficiency in the U.S. health system. Microeconomic methods examine markets and resources in health care. Health care examined as commodity. Explores demand for health and medical care services, provider behavior, and function and behavior of insurance markets. Topics include government role, financing arrangements, insurance reform, rationing, price regulation, and provider competition.
720 Health Data Integration (3:3:0) Students learn to manipulate large databases, create link table queries, write SQL application programs, understand sources of data conflicts, and identify methods of integrating ODBC databases with legacy data. Covers data warehousing, methods of analyzing large databases, including Bayesian belief networks and machine learning in health care context. Features semesterlong data integration group project.
727 Program Evaluations in Health Care (3:3:0) Methods of evaluating health and social programs, including anthropological case studies, decision analytic and quasi-experimental approaches. Emphasis is placed on using methods of continuous quality improvement and benchmarking exchanges in evaluating multisite programs. Assess cost effectiveness of programs (including assessment of patient census, employee activities and program outcomes). Evaluation of health care interventions, rate setting, and managed care are discussed.
730 Health Care Decision Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisite: HSCI 501 or any statistics course. Students analyze practice patterns and find optimal methods of improving them. Uses decision analysis and failure mode analysis in health care settings. Students integrate scientific evidence, patients’ preferences, and experts’ opinions to identify optimal alternatives.
735 Risk Analysis in Health and Bioscience (3:3:0) Students build and interpret causal model of risks and test the accuracy of them against extant incidence reports using risk analysis models, risk analysis life cycle, as well as methods of evaluating the validity and reliability of risk analysis. Bayesian probability models, probabilistic risk analysis, root-cause analysis, and failure model analysis are covered. Includes applications to terrorism, unauthorized disclosures, and patient safety.
740 Management of Health Information Systems (3:3:0) Introduces health and medical information systems with emphasis on systems analysis and design to support managerial and clinical communications and decision making. Explores trends and innovations in information technology and systems, focusing on managerial oversight of health and medical information systems. Explores contemporary management strategies for information systems personnel.
745 Health Care Security Policy (3:3:0) The focus of this course is on health security and privacy policy and compliance issues. Students will develop policies for the type of threats faced by the facilities. The legal and business policies for facility, personnel, travel, information, and patient security will be discussed.
746 Advanced Seminar on Security (3:3:0) Describes new methods to manage and verify identity of patients and providers. Includes issues related to identity management in electronic and physical domains. Includes discussion of continuity of care, referral process, patient recruitment, and follow-up of community clinic visits. Includes emerging topics in health care security and the new role of compliance officers.
755 Analysis of Causality in Health Services Research (3:3:0) Prerequisites: A prior graduate-level course in statistics covering analysis of variance: HAP 501, GCH 601, GCH 804, or an equivalent course (approved by the instructor). Covers philosophical and statistical problems with analysis of causes as separate and distinct from associations. Topics discussed include structural modeling, self selection, risk adjustment, propensity scoring, and Bayesian networks. Students examine real health care databases and the pitfalls of causal inferences. Special attention is made to investigation of causes of outbreaks and illness.
760 Philosophy of Science in Health Services Research (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to a doctoral program or permission of instructor. An introductory course on the theory and philosophy of science and humanism that relate to the design and conduct of health services research. The course examines selected theories on the nature of reality (ontology), the justification of knowledge claims (epistemology), and how knowledge is constructed (methodology) in design and analysis of health services research.
762 Cost-Effectiveness for Health Care Management and Policy Decisions (3:3:0) A survey course in health services research methods for the application of economic evaluation techniques used in health care policy analysis and clinical or administrative applications for health care service planning and evaluation. Content introduces methods applied to health care technology assessment, medical decision making, health resource allocation, and policymaking.
764 Health Policy and Government Payment Systems for Health Care Services (3:3:0) Examines the rationale for government intervention in provider payment and explores the current policy issues and politics of major government provider payment systems, including Medicare and Medicaid, and examines options for managing these programs more effectively. The course will “follow the money” as it flows through government and provider payment systems, model potential changes in such systems, and identify policies for improving the operation of these programs and payment systems.
765 Methods for Health Policy Analysis (3:3:0) Explores conceptual, analytic, and technical methods/approaches used in health policy analysis and planning. Students will learn to select from among alternative methods for applied concept modeling, graphical data presentation, needs assessment, goal clarification, group decision methods, and a variety of quantitative applications and frameworks for evaluating policy impact.
766 Policy Implementation and Health System Management Dilemmas (3:3:0) Prerequisite: HAP 703 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Analyzes selected public policies and regulations and the impact of implementation and compliance/noncompliance on health care systems and organizations. Examines management responsibilities, challenges, and dilemmas (fiduciary and ethical) of implementing selected policies and regulations (promulgated or proposed).
780 Data Mining in Health Care (3:3:0) Prerequisite: HAP 501 or equivalent introductory graduate statistics course and lab, or permission of instructor. An introductory course to data mining and knowledge discovery in health care. Methods for mining health care databases and synthesizing task-oriented knowledge from computer data and prior knowledge are emphasized. Topics include fundamental concepts of datamining, data preprocessing, classification and prediction (decision trees, attributional rules, Bayesian networks), constructive induction, cluster and association analysis, knowledge representation and visualization, and an overview of practical tools for discovering knowledge from medical data. These topics are illustrated by examples of practical applications in health care.
790 Health Management Practicum and Capstone Seminar (3:2:6) Prerequisite: all course work. Team-based field practicum in health management, problem analysis, and project management in health care or service organization. Learning teams define complex problem in assigned facility and analyze problem with recommendations for management decision action. Analysis provides context in which theoretical concepts and management skills are applied. Uses case study analyses to explore problem-solving approaches in variety of situations and health care or service organizations.
820 Analytic Models in Health Services Management, Policy, and Research (3:3:0) Prerequisite: HAP 710 or equivalent graduate statistics course. An advanced statistics course in applied linear and multiple regression analysis, including polynomial regression, indicator variables and covariance analysis, model selection and validation, methods for measurement errors, diagnostic methods for outliers, influence and multicollinearity, nonlinear regression, logistic regression with non-normal distributions, correlations, and time-series analysis and forecasting as uszed in health services administration research and policy analysis.
821 Analysis of Categorical Data in Health Policy and Administration (3:3:0) Prerequisite: HAP 710 or equivalent graduate statistics course. An advanced statistics course in analysis of categorical data. Topics include tests and measures of association for contingency table analysis, including chi-square, odds ratio, relative risk, comparative trials, analysis of categorical data with matched samples, log-linear models, and logistic regression. Econometric models involving categorical variables could also be covered.
822 Research Designs and Analysis in Pharmaceutical and Health-Related Clinical Trials (3:3:0) Prerequisite: HAP 710 or equivalent graduate statistics course. A survey course that introduces students to the design and management of clinical trials research and pharmaceutical research and development, including drug development and FDA drug approval. This course also covers a variety of biostatistical methods as they apply to biomedical and biotechnology industry research with human subjects.
866 Health Care Public Policy (3:2:1) Focuses on process of formulating health care policy and analyzing implications for nursing, administration in nursing, and education and nursing service. Examines current and impending health issues, legislative process, and program implementation evaluation.
868 Advanced Research Seminar in Health Policy Analysis (3:3:0) Limited to doctoral students having completed core courses in statistics and research design, or permission of instructor. Seminar on advanced research methods that analyzes theoretical and analytic foundations to critique health services research and health policy analysis. Students synthesize, integrate, and apply theoretical knowledge and advanced skills relevant to health services research, policy analysis, and program evolution.