HAP 586
(O)

Process Improvement in Health Services

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 601

(O)

Electronic Commerce and Online Marketing for Health Services

3:3:0

Semester

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 successful and bankrupt technology firms in health care. Student groups draft business plan and develop early version of service proposal.

HAP 709

(O)

Health Care Databases

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 720

(O)

Health Data Integration

3:3:0

Semester

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 semester long data integration group project.

HAP 740

(O)

Management of Health Information Systems

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 501
(O)

Business Statistics in Health Services Management

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 512
(I)

Introduction to Health Services Research

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 586
(O)

Process Improvement in Health Services

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 601
(O)

Electronic Commerce & Online Marketing for Health Services

3:3:0

Semester

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 successful and bankrupt technology firms in health care. Student groups draft business plan and develop early version of service proposal.

HAP 621
(O)

Management of Health Services Organizations

3:3:0

Semester

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 aking, power gradients, change, and other issues that affect function and performance of health service organizations. Introduces strategies used by learning organizations.

HAP 678
(O)

Introduction to the US Health System

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 709

(O)

Health Care Databases

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 715

(G)

Health Economics

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 720

(O)

Health Data Integration

3:3:0

Semester

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 semester long data integration group project.

HAP 740

(O)

Management of Health Information Systems

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HAP 745

(G)

Healthcare Security Policy

3:3:0

Semester

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.

HHS 750

(G)

Legal Issues Relevant to Healthcare Administration

3:3:0

Semester

Prepares health professionals to understand legal principles, statutes, regulations, and case law related to managing health care organizations and health professionals' practice. May compare legal health care issues from domestic and international perspectives.

HAP 790

(G)

Health Management Practicum & Capstone Seminar

3:3:0

Seminar

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.