Educational Opportunities
Course Offerings
HSM 598: Health Care Supply Chain Management
Course offered at the School of Health Management and Policy through the Master of Health Sector Management (MHSM) program.
This course will evaluate key value chain organizations that contribute to the production of health services including group purchasing organizations, distributors and informatics, as well as the strategies employed to align incentives between physicians, suppliers and health care delivery systems.
This course is designed:
- As an elective for students in the MHSM program
- To better understand the health care supply chain as a driving force for improving quality and cost reduction
- To orchestrate and manage supply chain change
- To provide leadership for the health care supply chain
The course is offered by a world-class faculty recognized for their research, teaching and practice in the health care supply chain.
- Professor Eugene S. Schneller
, Ph.D., Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar and Co-Director of the Health Care Supply Chain Research Consortium. Dr. Schneller is the author of “The Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain” (Jossey-Bass).
- Guest lecturers from key health care supply chain organizations.
At the end of the course students will be able to:
- Assess the strength of the supply chain in a health care organization
- Determine strategies associated with supply chain performance improvement
- Understand the contributions of the wide variety of supply channel organizations, including distributors, suppliers, GPOs and regulatory agencies
- Develop a strategy to build recognition of added value features of the supply chain
- Manage with physicians to assure savings for physician preference items
Executive Education in the Health Sector Supply Chain
Course under development. Please check back later for updates.
Summer Internships
Please e-mail contacthsrc@asu.edu if you are:
- A student interested in health care supply chain projects
- A company that would like to recruit students as summer interns for ongoing projects
