Healthcare Management Concentration

This course introduces the healthcare worker to informatics applications in clinical practice, administration, research, and education. Basic informatics concepts, current issues, and information management systems are covered. Topics include legislative regulation, HIPPA, electronic health records, and other applications are identified and explored.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the healthcare industry including healthcare organizations and structures, public policy makers, and healthcare operations. Emphasis is placed on rapid changes in healthcare delivery systems as a response to increased healthcare costs, aging of the population, advanced medical science and technology, changing disease patterns, consumer demands, and distribution and use of the healthcare workforce.

This course is an introduction to legal and regulatory standards governing healthcare organizations. Topics include legal requirements, responsibilities, and constraints related to health provider/patient relationships, medical records, malpractice insurance, and licensure of health professionals.

This course offers a general description and application of certain financial principles in a healthcare setting including insurance payment systems, funding sources, non-profit versus for-profit, return on investment, and profitability. It provides an overview of financial statements and financial responsibility reporting, budgeting, inventory control, asset management, payer systems, accounts receivable, charity care, and managing controllables.