PUBHHMP 7699
Seminar in Health Services Management and Policy
Small group seminar with focus on integrative projects in health services management and policy.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in PUBHHMP or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7685
Healthcare Management Consulting Practice
To develop management consulting practice skills involving strategic thinking, planning, analysis and implementation phases of consulting engagements.
Prequisite(s): Enrollment in HSMP‐MHA program or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7684
Health Services Strategy and Marketing
Students will learn principles, discipline and analytic tools that comprise successful strategic management in health care organizations, including: strategic assessment, strategy development, implementation planning and marketing. Emphasis will be placed on exploring strategic issues related to transitioning from volume to value‐based models of care, impacts of ACA and population and community health.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Public Health HSMP-MHA program or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 7631.
PUBHHMP 7683
Operations Management and System Design
This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental theories, principles and practices for designing and managing operations. The course is structured to emphasize the unique aspects of process and system design in the health care organizations and in the community health system, including processes that cross organizational boundaries and include diverse stakeholders.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHMP 7682
Information Systems for Health Services Organizations
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of issues in the management of information and information technology in health care organizations, the role of information technologies in improving organizational performance and the application of information technologies in health service organizations.
Prequisite(s): 7680 or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 882.
PUBHHMP 7681
Advanced Health Services Operations Management
Selected topics in health services operations management, such as operations strategy, quality management, process design, materials management and facility location.
Prequisite(s): 7680 or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 881.
PUBHHMP 7680
Operations Management for Health Service Organizations
Concepts and techniques for managing operation in health service organizations, emphasis on management perspective and decision‐making.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in PUBHHMP or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 880.
PUBHHMP 7679
Quality and Patient Safety
Examination of quality management and quality measurement in health care with emphasis on patient safety.
Prequisite(s): None.
PUBHHMP 7678
Approaches to Health Services Research I
This course is designed to be a foundational course in the PhD specialization in Health Services Management and Policy. This course is intended to expose students to the field of health services research through an examination of classic and current research on health services delivery and health policy. Through lectures, guided discussions and reading assignments, students will gain an understanding of the salient questions and issues health services researchers have attempted to address and the quasi-experimental methods, as well as other methods they have employed to do so. This course will stress student participation in discussions.
Prequisite(s): Graduate student standing in Public Health or permission of instructor.
PUBHHMP 7676
Health Care Marketing
Overview of topics in marketing and communications and how
they apply to health care delivery.
Prequisite(s): Not open to students with credit for 870.06.