Business Core

MGT 502    Organization Theory and Behavior

Concepts and applications of management including motivation, leadership, group dynamics, organization design, decision-making, communication and organization change.

ECN 502    Managerial Economics

Application of microeconomic analysis to managerial decision-making at the firm-level in areas of supply and demand, production, cost and pricing. Evaluation of competitive strategies.

MKT 502    Marketing Management

Managing the marketing function; market and environmental analysis; marketing planning, strategy and control concepts. Development and management of marketing programs.

ACC 502    Financial Accounting

Managerial accounting concepts and procedures for internal reporting.

FIN 502    Managerial Finance

Theory and practice of financial decision making, including risk analysis, valuation, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and working capital management.

MHSM Core

HSM 502   Health Care Organization

Concepts, structures, functions and values characterizing contemporary health care systems in the United States.

HSM 505   Principles of Epidemiology

Basic constructs and measures of epidemiology. Epidemiologic study designs. Potential impact of chance, bias, confounding, on an epidemiologic study. Causal criteria; levels of evidence in epidemiological studies, implications and limitations of statistical association.

HSM 512   Health Care Economics

Economics of production and distribution of health care services, with special emphasis on the impact of health insurance, government regulation, and economic incentives.

HSM 522    Health Sector Information Management

Strategic application of information technology in health care organizations. Managerial and operational issues with leveraging IT to transform business processes to improve efficiency, quality, and patient safety.

HSM 542    Health Care Law

Legal aspects of health care delivery for managers in the health sector. Legal responsibilities of the health care manager and staff.

HSM 561    Biostatistics

Compute sample and population statistics, hypothesis testing, correlation regression and logistic regression using SAS.

HSM 564    Health Care Finance

Overview of the acquisition, allocation, and management of financial resources by health care providers. Focuses on economic, financial, and accounting principles.

HSM 589    Health Care Management

Assessment of current policies, problems, and controversies across the broad spectrum of health services administration.

Elective Courses

HSM 566   Managerial Epidemiology

Application of epidemiological methods and information to managerial decision making, including: role and responsibilities of a project manager, risk perception and motivation, crisis management, social marketing and health promotion, use of GIS systems.

HSM 578    Managing Clinical Trials

Read and understand published reports of clinical trials and observation studies, understand strengths and weaknesses of experimental and observational study designs, evaluate the scientific and practical issues to chose interventions that are both relevant and feasible.

HSM 598   Managing Change in the Health Care Value Chain
An extensive examination of the organizations contributing to the production of health care including suppliers, distributors, group purchasing organizations and government. A focus on the principles and practices associated with health sector supply chain management and management of innovation.

HSM 598   Managing Change in Health Care

Economic and managerial implications of technological and organizational innovations in the health sector. Theories and applications in the diffusion of innovations, process engineering, and change management.

HSM 584   Management Internship

Participate in a specific, data-driven project that involves managerial functions in the health care sector.

HSM 565    Introduction to Health Policy

Examination of various aspects of health care policymaking through a policy framework involving policy processes, arenas, players, and stakeholders. Analysis of current health policy issues in the context of the policy framework. 

HSM 575    Health Policy Management and Evaluation

Provides students with the analytical techniques and real world experience to manage the implementation and evaluation of changes in health policy.

HSM 584    Policy Internship

Participate in a specific, data-driven project that has implications for policymaking in the health care sector.