MBA in Healthcare Administration
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The healthcare administration concentration prepares you to navigate the complexities of today’s rapidly evolving health care industry. You’ll build expertise in health care operations, information systems and leadership as you learn how to improve efficiency, manage costs and enhance patient outcomes.
Your electives will focus on healthcare IT, operational strategy and values-based leadership. These skills will allow you to hold management roles in hospitals, health systems insurance companies, consulting firms and other health care organizations. If you dream of becoming a leader in one of the world’s largest and most dynamic industries, this concentration is for you.
Healthcare Administration Electives
This course features a high-level overview of healthcare informatics. Overviews of the following topics will be included: administrative and clinical software applications, healthcare systems acquisition, leadership skills, electronic health records, change management and organizational behavior, workflow design and reengineering, communications specific to the information systems leaders, healthcare information exchanges, and evidence-based medicine. A high-level look at the healthcare industry and recent government mandates will also be explored.
An in-depth view of the major players such as hospital, insurance, government, pharmaceutical, and support vendors and information systems role will be discussed. Patient safety, medical error, and healthcare quality improvement will be major topics. A portion of this class will deal with current government healthcare policies and mandates (e.g., healthcare reform) and the complexities of application in the current healthcare information systems environment. The class will take an in-depth look at the HIPAA regulations such as entity definitions, information disclosures, and privacy notices. Government mandates that affect privacy, security, and electronic health records will also be discussed.
Introduces the student to the business of healthcare at both an industry and individual business level. Includes department design, management of capital and operating budgets, budget planning process, strategic planning, and concepts necessary for the preparation and interpretation of financial statements. Additionally, the vendor identification and selection process as well as contract management will be discussed as it pertains to the healthcare environment.
Prerequisite: TAKE HINF 501
Health care organizations face numerous challenges, including rising costs, increasing complexity, and quality issues, all while confronting an increase in demand for limited resources. This course examines the operations of the entire healthcare organization and its management, including the role of strategic planning and governance, clinical and nonclinical support services, quality improvement, environment-of-care and facilities management, personnel and staffing, finance, information technology, and marketing.