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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the roles of local, state, and federal regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies; the enforcement of federal guidelines, standards, and regulations; and the issues and demands of the regulatory environment that affect health care in the United States today. Throughout the course, students are asked to demonstrate understanding regarding legal responsibility, workplace safety, and the health care facility's obligation to provide protection from injury for patients, their families, and staff. Additionally, students are exposed to real-life scenarios in which they are asked to demonstrate the ability to develop strategic plans around risk management issues that would protect the health care organization from accidental injury costs or violations of safe health care regulations. Prerequisites: HCA 450.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the management of human resources, with particular focus on health care environments and provides the health care manager with a framework for human resource decision making. It includes topics such as job analysis, recruitment, selection and placement, training and development, retention, performance appraisal, and compensation, and provides the health care manager with popular concepts and theories in health care management, current topics in health care such as patient safety initiatives, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), revenue recovery efforts, and diversity training, and skills in using materials, references, tools, and technology central to health care management. Throughout the course, students are exposed to real-life scenarios in which they will be able to demonstrate basic management skills and the ability to work productively with others in multidisciplinary and ethnically diverse teams on relevant activities such as planning, organizing, decision making, staffing, motivating, budgeting, and more. Prerequisite: HCA 460.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the strategic environment that exists in health care and the models for planning effective programs, implementing programs, and program evaluation in health care settings. The course introduces special procedures and options available to health care organizations and provides methods for identifying, gathering, and utilizing data for decision making. Students are presented with the theory of health care administration using a strategic management framework and study the role played by the key business functions (finance, marketing, human resources, information technology, and law) as well as specific strategic options (merger/acquisition, reorganization, joint venture) and some of the popular tools for analyzing strategic situations (balanced scorecard, Six Sigma, SWOT). The culmination of efforts in the course is to complete the multistep process of creating strategic and implementation plans related to the work done in HLT 364 and the upcoming capstone project. A writing-intensive course. Prerequisites: HLT 364.
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4.00 Credits
The focus of this course is to begin integrating all previous study and to identify the focus of students' final capstone project. Students evaluate and integrate the methodologies, considerations, and strategies for project or program design, planning, implementation, and evaluation that are relevant or specifically required by their specific health care discipline. Topics of investigation and consideration include (but are not limited to) financial and economic impact; resource allocation; competition; public and private educational requirements; availability of information technology; impact assessment of change; process improvement assessment; social, behavioral, and environmental impact; legal/ethical issues; and any other factors that impact the provision of care or subsequent outcomes within an organization and community. A collaborative group project approach is emphasized to enhance contribution and consideration from diverse experiences within the health care field. Prerequisite: Successful completion of all previous coursework in the program of study.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an opportunity for students to envision the best possible future for the American health care system, and to understand what changes are necessary to achieve it. By focusing on and developing a set of recommendations for improving American health care, students appreciate the difference between forcing a current system to work harder, and redesigning a system in order to achieve desired outcomes. Students learn how transactional leaders can become transformational leaders, and begin the formal process of preparing for their capstone research project. Students gain understanding of how clinical data, knowledge, and practice are driving the development of health care surveillance systems through informatics. Topics of investigation include the role of informatics in improved patient care and research, organization and national bio-surveillance, and clinical decision support. Consideration is given to legal and regulatory issues in private and public health practice and as they apply to public health security and preparedness in response to bioterrorism and disasters. Prerequisite: HCA 620.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history, application, impact, and future need for informatics in health care. Emphasis is placed on standards, processes, and systems that impact areas of evidence-based medicine, administrative and clinical practices, information infrastructure, security, and electronic health records.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the application of information systems in health care settings, beginning with an analysis of the broad meaning and nature of information and systems. The focus narrows to utilization of computer technologies, configurations, and applications as tools to benefit health care environments. Emphasis is placed on the challenges related to the development and implementation of effective information systems in light of a rapidly and continuously changing health care model, evolution of technology team member roles and responsibilities, and advancement of technological requirements within the health care system.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines health care information resources and their impact on administrative functions, interfaces, data security and integrity, and business processes. Topics include use of relational database management software to construct tables, develop forms, create and execute queries, design and deploy reports, and advance database concepts to automate contemporary business processes. Students are able to distinguish between various network hardware technologies and associated data communications protocols in order to direct how organizations design and implement data networks. Prerequisites HIM 515 and HIM 615.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the major events, trends, personalities, movements, and ideas that have shaped world history from the beginnings of civilization to the present.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a survey of U.S. history from the Colonial era to the present. Topics include the American Revolution, the early national period, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America, the Civil War and the Reconstruction, industrialization, the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras.
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