Summer University Graduate Course
HCA 601: Introduction to Healthcare Management | (8 Weeks)
This course provides an overview of the history, challenges, and opportunities facing healthcare administrators today. Topics will include the ongoing transition from a pay-for-services model of healthcare delivery to accountable care networks, emerging public health and healthcare partnerships, and the…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 610: Healthcare Quality for Enhanced Value-Based Patient Outcomes
This course explores the dynamic between healthcare delivery and leveraging data for enhanced patient outcomes. Given an increased scrutiny on empirical value-based care metrics for payer reimbursement, the strategic use of data will be key in new continuum of care…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 630: Healthcare Law and Ethics
This course explores the range of legal and ethical issues facing healthcare administrators and providers. Students will gain expertise analyzing legal and ethical dimensions of healthcare from administrative, clinical, and organizational perspectives. Current issues, as well as perennial conflicts in…
Summer University Graduate Course
HCA 700: Project Management | (8 Weeks)
The implementation or integration of major projects or initiatives, such as a new healthcare technology system requires careful planning and organization. This course will provide students with widely-accepted concepts and skills that can be used and scaled to successfully complete…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 705: Emergency Management
A hurricane is an amazing meteorological phenomenon… until it becomes a disaster by coming in contact with humans. From an overturned tractor-trailer full of milk to a global pandemic, the philosophy of “proper prior planning prevents pathetically poor performance” applies.…
Summer University Graduate Course
HCA 705: Emergency Management | (8 Weeks)
A hurricane is an amazing meteorological phenomenon… until it becomes a disaster by coming in contact with humans. From an overturned tractor-trailer full of milk to a global pandemic, the philosophy of “proper prior planning prevents pathetically poor performance” applies.…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 720: Leadership and Strategic Management in Health Settings
This course explores the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare leaders and organizations in an age of accountable care, and examines the critical role health data and informatics can and should play in strategic management. Using case-based study techniques, students explore…
Summer University Graduate Course
HCA 720: Leadership and Strategic Management in Health Settings | (8 Weeks)
This course explores the challenges and opportunities facing healthcare leaders and organizations in an age of accountable care, and examines the critical role health data and informatics can and should play in strategic management. Using case-based study techniques, students explore…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 730: Measuring Social Media Impact
Students will explore the range of social media metrics used to inform marketing campaigns and budgeting decisions. This course will provide students with skills in analyzing social media metrics and developing strategies for viable advertising and social media information dissemination…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 740: Entrepreneurship and Business Development
This course will explore the complexities of small business development in healthcare settings. Students will engage with theories of, and practical approaches to, strategic decision making and leadership. Course topics will include such key skills as developing business plans,assessing the…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 760: Healthcare Finance and Revenue Cycle Strategy
This course explores the fundamentals of finance and economics in a health care system at both the local system and national levels. Healthcare leadership increasingly depends upon deep and strategic understanding of the complex payor systems that provide revenue to…
Summer University Graduate Course
HCA 760: Healthcare Finance and Revenue Cycle Strategy | (8 Weeks)
This course explores the fundamentals of finance and economics in a health care system at both the local system and national levels. Healthcare leadership increasingly depends upon deep and strategic understanding of the complex payor systems that provide revenue to…
Certificate
HCA 765: Communication for Healthcare Leaders
Students in the course will examine concepts, theories, and best practices for communication in the professional workplace. The goal of this course is to refine your written, oral and visual communication. Participants in this course will develop strategies to create…
Summer University Graduate Course
HCA 765: Communication for Healthcare Leaders | (8 Weeks)
Students in the course will examine concepts, theories, and best practices for communicating in the professional workplace. The goal of this course is to refine they are written, oral and visual communication. Participants in this course will develop strategies to…
Healthcare Administration
HCA 780: Healthcare Administration Capstone
This course is the culmination of the student’s learning throughout the Healthcare Administration program. Combining the leadership theories and practices they have studied, the challenges facing the healthcare sector they have explored, and the contextual practice they have gained through…
Certificate
HIN 605: Introduction to Health Informatics
This course introduces students to central health informatics tools, techniques, and concepts used to improve health outcomes through technology. Students explore various healthcare technology platforms, how data is used in healthcare, and how the need for cybersecurity and health data…
Summer University Graduate Course
HIN 605: Introduction to Health Informatics | (8 Weeks)
This course introduces students to central health informatics tools, techniques, and concepts used to improve health outcomes through technology. Students explore various healthcare technology platforms, how data is used in healthcare, and how the need for cybersecurity and health data…
Health Informatics
HIN 615: Advanced Computer Information Technologies for Health Informatacists
The field of health informatics depends on advanced computing systems to collect health data and analytical sophistication to make sense of that data. This course provides students with a solid understanding of the computer science that undergirds the entire field,…
Summer University Graduate Course
HIN 620: Database Design, Standards, Access, and Modeling | (8 Weeks)
This course explores in depth database basics such as the relational algebra and data model, schema normalization, query optimization, and transactions. The course addresses current needs in database design and use for optimized human-computer interaction, for rigorous security, and for…
Health Informatics
HIN 620: Database Design, Standards, Access, Modeling
This course explores in depth database basics such as the relational algebra and data model, schema normalization, query optimization, and transactions. The course addresses current needs in database design and use for optimized human-computer interaction, for rigorous security, and for…
Health Informatics
HIN 625: Health Information Legislation, Compliance, Privacy and Security
This course explores legislation and regulation relating to health informatics. The course will examine the major laws and agency regulations governing healthcare technology, data collection, management, and privacy, as well as the security standards required for healthcare and health-related organizations.…
Health Informatics
HIN 700: Project Management
The implementation or integration of major projects or initiatives, such as a new healthcare technology system requires careful planning and organization. This course will provide students with widely-accepted concepts and skills that can be used and scaled to successfully complete…
Health Informatics
HIN 715: Health Data Analysis, Visualization, and Storytelling
Large data sets are not useful in their native state. Informaticists have to begin by defining the question that will be answered by the data and then organizing, analyzing, and visualizing the dataset. Analytics provide meaningful patterns in the data,…
Summer University Graduate Course
HIN 715: Information Visualization | (8 Weeks)
Large data sets are not useful in their native state. Informaticists have to begin by defining the question that will be answered by the data and then organizing, analyzing, and visualizing the dataset. Analytics provide meaningful patterns in the data,…