Prerequisites: HPM 500 or HPM 501 and HPM 521. Focuses on the principles of public finance to enable students to evaluate tax subsidies and revenue structure used to finance health care with comparisons to alternative structures. Students apply the concepts of equity and efficiency in financing health care at the national and state levels.

This course is about how managers get things done and achieve lasting results in the increasingly complex and dynamic world of health and healthcare. It applies multiple facets of management science to address central organizational challenges that managers face today, such as enabling work across siloes, organizing for consistency without limiting innovation, and building resilience.This course focuses on the skills and practical frameworks that help people thrive and lead as they rise from individual contributors to managers of people and systems. Students will learn analytic frameworks to identify and assess critical issues facing today's managers and will sharpen the problem-solving and communication skills that are vital to managing in dynamic environments. This course is taught primarily using interactive case studies from real organizations, which expose students to a variety of managerial concepts and help them to develop general management acumen.

The purpose of this course is to provide you with practical training on how to work with data and perform data analytics using Excel.

This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical applications of qualitative research. Emphasis is placed on qualitative methods most commonly associated with health services research, including informant interviews, document reviews, and focus groups. Students will gain practical experience with qualitative methodology as well as learn the basic approaches to mixing qualitative and quantitative methods. Students will complete a research proposal by the end of the semester that reflects a mixed method study.

Prerequisites: HPM 501 and HPM 502 or permission of the instructor. Provides an overview of interpersonal dynamics, conflict resolution, and human resource management in health care. Students undertake real world applied human resource management practices through dynamic group projects.

Prerequisites: HPM 501 and HPM 510 or permission of the instructor. Presents the basic concepts of marketing in the context of the delivery of health care services in the United States. Students undertake an applied marketing project on a group basis.

Prerequisites: HPM 501, HPM 502, HPM 510, HPM 511, HPM 521, HPM 540, HPM 545, HPM 561 or 557.This course integrates various analytical approaches developed in prerequisite courses into practical decision making by analyzing the problems of day-to-day operations within the health care organizations and the specific tools used to address those problems. Operations involve the efficient management of an organizations people, material, methods, equipment, and environment. This course will develop the student?s ability to make decisions and to apply problem-solving skills to operate a modern-day health care organization.

Pre-requisites: HPM 500 or 501, or with permission of instructor. The course will cover health information technology (HIT) topics relevant to both the HPM management and policy tracks. Students will be asked to evaluate research, business proposals, and policies from the perspective of multiple stakeholders, including large healthcare systems, hospitals, physicians, policy makers, payers (CMS and insurance providers), HIT industry executives, researchers, and patient advocates. Topics covered will include electronic health records, health information exchanges, computerized decision support systems, machine learning, quality improvement, management strategies, meaningful use, telehealth payment structures, implementation, usability, workflow, patient portals, and mHealth.

Prerequisite: HPM 521 or permission of the instructor. Examines the role of pharmaceuticals in the delivery of health care and the economic principles and public policies that impact pharmaceutical markets. Includes topics related to drug pricing, competition, regulation, research and development, access to drugs, and substance abuse. Analyzes the strategies of various actors in pharmaceutical markets?branded and generic drug manufacturers, insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, physicians, and patients.

Prerequisite: HPM 500 or HPM 501 or permission of the instructor. Presents a theoretical framework to facilitate the continuous improvement of quality in health care organizations. Introduces multiple approaches, including outcome measurement and case management. Emphasizes team development, analytical statistics, and process knowledge.