Online Master's Degree in Health Administration
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Course Descriptions
Core Courses
HAD4605 Health Administration (3 Credits)
An introduction to the principles of administration within health and human services organizations and the basic concepts of leadership and organizational theories relevant to effective administration of healthcare institutions. Organizations are viewed as open systems requiring constant interactions with the environment. Considerable emphasis is placed on quality improvement and organizational change.
HAD4645 Health Care Organization (3 Credits)
An overview of the organization, structure, and financing of the healthcare delivery system in the United States. The various elements comprising the system will be presented, along with an exploration of the basic concepts and measures of health, disease, needs, quality, and utilization. Issues in healthcare resourcing, institutions, and system organization will be examined.
HAD4025 Health Services Research (3 Credits)
Designed to help professionals in health services critically evaluate research in their respective fields. The course will cover basic principles of research design and statistical analysis and will survey health services research approaches, including epidemiology, program evaluation, case studies, organizational analysis, ethnography, and sociology/health psychology.
HAD4745 Ethics of Health Care (3 Credits)
A critical examination of the central ethical issues in the healthcare field. Issues to be treated include euthanasia, life-prolonging medical technologies, abortion, screening for genetic defects, experimentation and informed consent, distribution of scarce medical resources, the right to healthcare, and its implications for the healthcare delivery system. Necessary background in moral philosophy will be provided.
HED4765 Managed Health Care (3 Credits)
This course is an introduction to managed care including current and evolving models, terminology, and differences among insurers and payor types. The course will focus on the use of financial incentives to restrain healthcare costs and the role of utilization review, peer review, provider.
HAD4655 Health Care Law (3 Credits)
An examination of the major legal issues encountered in the healthcare field by administrators and practitioners. Among the topics to be included are principles of liability, legal aspects of medical ethics, and legislative and regulatory factors in healthcare delivery.
HAD4665 Health Care Information (3 Credits)
A survey of the current use of information technology in the clinical and management practice for the healthcare delivery enterprise. Students will become familiar with the basic terminology, strategies, and utilization of IT as a key component in the delivery of patient care.
HAD4675 Accounting for Health Care Organizations (3 Credits)
An introduction to basic accounting techniques used in the healthcare industry.
HAD4685 Financial Management of Health Care Organizations (3 Credits)
An introduction to the basic theories and practices of financial management as they relate to healthcare organizations. Course includes budgeting principles.
HAD/HED6025 Integrative Course in Health Services (3 Credits)
An integrative capstone course in which the student is expected to integrate and synthesize prior course work and to demonstrate competence in health services through the analysis of complex cases in health services delivery and management and the development of a case of his/her own based on experience and observation. This should be the final course in the curriculum.
Health Care Ethics Specialization
HAD4805 Health Policy (3 Credits)
The formulation and analysis of health policy at federal, state, local, and corporate levels. This course presents an overview of the legislative, regulatory, and political processes and their effect on the healthcare system. Provides a conceptual and analytic framework for policy analysis regarding policy formulation, adoption, implementation, operation, evaluation, and termination. Pragmatic application of policy analysis tools is included.
HED4805 Epidemiology and Community Health (3 Credits)
An introductory course exploring the basic concepts of epidemiology as a public health science, including rates and ratios, risk and association, causation and investigation of outbreak.
Informatics Specialization
HAD4105 Health Information Management Systems Data and Infrastructure (3 Credits)
Analysis and case study of IT networks, internets, data interchange, data access, and data management.
HAD4115 Health Information Management Systems Applications (3 Credits)
Case study of the foundation and incorporation of the critical IT applications in the modern healthcare
delivery enterprise. Specific applications will be explored with an emphasis placed on the practice of
Managed Care.
HAD4125 Computer-Based Patient Record (CPR) (3 Credits)
An in-depth analysis of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) standards, requirements, attributes, and
benefits of the CPR and its use in the healthcare delivery enterprise. The use of data warehouses, data
repositories, and integration technology will be explored relevant to CPR development along with the
various issues and strategies for implementation.
HAD4155 Health Care and the Internet (3 Credits)
Examination of the specific roles that internet technology plays in healthcare. Observations and trends
that play a significant role in improving the quality of healthcare delivery will be discussed. Various
components such as intranets, extranets, knowledge management and web design concepts will be
explored.
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