Fluency in healthcare finance and economics is critical for successful healthcare leadership. This Foundation course introduces core content in these two major areas. Students will: 1) gain a broad understanding of how U.S. healthcare is organized and financed and explore new approaches to meet the “triple aims” driving healthcare today: better care and satisfaction for individuals, improved outcomes for populations, and lower per capita costs; and 2) gain knowledge and competencies to critically assess and develop information and communication technologies within diverse practice settings. Cultural, ethical and regulatory implications of information technology will also be deliberated.
- Instructor: Melek Nasr Totah
- Instructor: MARY DICKOW
- Instructor: Joan Grebe
- Instructor: Terry
- Instructor: Jarmin Yeh
Forward-thinking leaders must learn how to effectively direct and manage their team’s efforts within the environment in which their team and organization function, as well as what mechanisms exist to influence that environment toward positive change. Effective leaders in health care have knowledge and awareness of health policy as it shapes the environment in which all of health care functions. Health policy encompasses regulation and licensure, education and deployment of the health workforce, public health systems, the legislative process and health legislation such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as state and federal health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). In this course, students will explore the policy environment both inside and outside their organization’s vertical structure, and identify opportunities for initiating structural change. Interactive assignments will build students’ capacity to create and apply strategies to locate and apply relevant health policy knowledge through in a combination of classroom and real-world, team-based case studies and peer-facilitated simulations and debriefings.
- Instructor: Beth Mertz
This interprofessional course focuses on the foundations, components, and translation of research essential to advance innovation in health systems to improve evidence-based healthcare. This is a highly self-directed course that provides you with a structured opportunity to identify a healthcare topic of interest, select research articles on that topic, and use the scientific method to appraise scientific evidence. These learning activities will form the basis for your capstone project, a requirement for degree completion.
- Instructor: Jason Flatt
Online program information and orientation for MS-HAIL.
- Instructor: Lucy Fisher
This foundation course introduces students to core concepts and principles of leadership, teamwork, change management, creativity and innovation. Using results from standardized assessment inventories, students will participate in tailored activities to strengthen their self-knowledge and skill acquisition for leadership development and professional advancement. Students will also engage in interprofessional group work and structured sessions to initiate their evidence-based capstone project. Attendance at a 3-day on-campus intensive will occur at the end of the quarter. Preparation for the on-campus intensive includes online pre-work activities throughout the quarter.
- Instructor: Lucy Fisher
- Instructor: Jason Flatt
- Instructor: Mary Louise Fleming
- Instructor: Joan Grebe
Forward-thinking leaders know how to effectively direct and manage their team’s efforts the environment in which their team and organization function, as well as what mechanisms exist to influence that environment toward positive change. Effective leaders have an awareness of, and engagement with, health care policy that governs regulation and licensure, education and deployment of the health workforce, public health systems, the legislative process and health legislation such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as knowledge of basics about state and federal health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. In this course, students will explore the policy environment working inside and outside an organization’s vertical structure, and examine supports and barriers to initiating structural change. Interactive assignments will build students’ capacity to create and apply strategies to locate and apply relevant health policy knowledge through in a combination of classroom and real-world, team-based case studies and peer-facilitated simulations and debriefings.
- Instructor: Beth Mertz