This course will enhance students' effectiveness as healthcare leaders by expanding their capabilities in organizational analysis and leadership within the evolving healthcare ecosystem. The course places particular emphasis on developing student skills in observation and organizational and behavioral theory but emphasizes application through team-based learning, experiential exercises, and reflection. The course concludes with an emphasis on personal leadership and lifelong learning with a focus on helping students enhance their self-awareness concerning strengths and development needs as they relate to a future career in the C Suite.
This course examines financial management and managerial accounting methodologies as they apply to healthcare. Students will gain the capabilities and skills for practicing professional excellence in financial decision-making in healthcare organizations, including hospitals, clinical practices, health insurance providers and other not-for-profit organizations. The course provides managers and professionals with the financially quantitative knowledge needed for planning, controlling and managing in contemporary health care organizations. The course provides managers and professional with the financially quantitative knowledge needed for planning, controlling and managing in contemporary health care organizations under constantly changing conditions. Introduces the basic business finance approaches to decisions-making and governance, as well as advanced applications within the healthcare sector. Provides students interested in managing healthcare facilities with a sound conceptual and applied understanding of the role that financial and cost management play in the decision-making process.
This course will examine the management of information in healthcare. Students will learn a wide range of technology applications from enterprise application systems to electronic health records. Current trends in information management and related regulatory systems will be explored. It addresses challenges in this rapidly changing field such as data informatics, security, mobile technology, and telehealth. This course will also examine third party reimbursement as a means to manage resource constraints, as well as insurance and reimbursement issues, in order to deliver access to quality, ethical healthcare.