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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester Principles of analysis, design, evaluation, selection, acquisition and utilization of information systems in healthcare. Review of current trends in information technology and how information systems support high-quality patient care. An introduction to business software applications is an essential ingredient of the course and are used in student projects.
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Three Credits Spring Semester What is and who makes up the continuum? Who are its clients? The course examines medical care from hospitals to hospices, from nursing homes to informal care giving. Case management, financing, and ethical issues are studied and evaluated. Focus is placed on the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of clients and families. Case studies are emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester This course reviews the principles, legal authority, historical development, and future of public health. The specific mission of public health with respect to the following topics is discussed: infectious disease, environmental health, maternal and child health, AIDS, substance abuse, and tobacco control. Disparities in health status, the relationship of poverty to poor health, the prioritization of the most prominent community health problems, and the mobilization of local resources to address them are considered.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 The role of epidemiology as a tool for analyzing health problems in managerial settings. Introduction to study designs, bias, confounding, and significance; association and causation. May not earn credit for both HC 109 and HC 219.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Historical development of the nation's system of health care including visions for the future. Review of health care policy development and implementation at the local, state, and federal levels; major health care and related social issues and concerns are addressed in both readings and class discussions.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters This course reviews alternative approaches to health promotion and health interventions. It contrasts Western medicine with strategies that utilize the mind and spirit in building defenses against illness and in coping with the problems of chronic pain. The increasing roles of these alternative approaches in current health care delivery systems are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester The purpose of this course is twofold: to provide the tools necessary to conduct patientbased assessments that meet the internal and external measurement needs of community medical practices, hospitals, and other health care facilities; to provide a working knowledge of the essential qualitative and quantitative Continuous Quality Improvement measurement techniques necessary for process improvement in health care facilities.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester Introduction to the theory and practice of communication within the health care context. Topics include interpersonal communication (e.g., provider-patient, physician-nurse, family-patient, family-provider), communication within health service organizations, and external communication between health service organizations and third party payers and regulators (e.g., conflict management, negotiation, public relations). Designed for those majoring or minoring in Communication or Health Care Administration; recommended for anyone interested in working in a facility providing health care services.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester Examines the critical principles underlying quality improvement principles and practices in the context of health care: motivating clinicians and patients to change their behavior; methodologies for motivation; models or paradigms that govern professional thinking.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester Economic analysis of health care delivery markets, physician and nurse shortages, insurance industry distortions, models of hospital behavior, demand and supply considerations, impact of market failure. Prerequisite: EC 176.
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