Graduate Catalog

HSMA 611 Healthcare Operations Management

This course provides students with an overview of healthcare systems and management covering fundamental concepts and theories including healthcare systems management, decision making and operations strategy. A common theme of high-performance healthcare organizations (HCO’s) is that they embraced a culture of transformational management and evidence-based management; both are carefully weaved throughout course. Also emphasized are critical management activities including measures and metrics, systems thinking, data analytics, continuous improvement and various operations management and systems engineering tools and methods, which are all essential to high performance HCO’s. The emphasis of the course will also be to learn various concepts and techniques and apply the techniques to diverse decision-support contexts.

Credits

3

Distribution

3-0-3

Offered

Fall