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Click on the name of an online healthcare graduate course to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the category by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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Evaluation Methodology (HCS 549) |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course provides the student with the research methodology for health services research. Models of evaluation are examined and components such as stakeholder analysis, cost benefit effectiveness, decision-modeling, and statistical techniques are applied to decision making in health care organizations. |
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Evaluation of Health Care Programs (DHA 732) |
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Healthcare |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course prepares the contemporary health administrator to utilize research methodologies in making decisions regarding the cost effectiveness of specific health programs. Case studies will be used that incorporate disease-specific programs, community wide health interventions, and population specific care management programs across a variety of health settings. |
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Executive Information Systems (DHA 723) |
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Healthcare |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course focuses on the use of financial systems, decision modeling programs, and advanced clinical information systems in formulating the strategic direction of modern health care systems. Practical experience using the University?s information technology partners introduces students to the richness of modern data systems. Simulations include quality improvement applications, including statistical process control methodology. |
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Globalization of Health Care (DHA 724) |
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Healthcare |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course focuses on global health care systems with the objective of improving the US health care systems. Topics include global health issues, advocacy organizations, comparative political processes, and the economics of health financing. Students will understand the role of various international governing structures on health policy development. |
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Health Care Administration (DM557) |
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Healthcare |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the forces that now shape, and will shape, health care in the new millennium. The emphasis is on administration. It also provides the student with a summary of the skills necessary to be an effective administrator in this evolving industry. Additionally, it details the various elements that exist in the current system, so as to provide the departure point for new ideas, proposals and restructuring under both voluntary and involuntary (legislated) provisions. |
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Health Care Administration Principles and Practices (HCA5015) |
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Northcentral University |
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The course focuses on development of the skills necessary to administer a modern complex multi-faceted health care delivery system. The course will cover management theory and models, motivational theory, goal setting, organizational theory, and development of an effective management approach to resolve problems associated with administering a health care delivery system. |
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Health Care Administration Research Project (1-5 units) (HCA6010) |
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Northcentral University |
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This is a field study in health care administration or the presentation of a position paper on a major issue facing the health care community. This course requires the graduate learner to conduct a research study in an area of Health Care Administration and to document the results in a formal project report. |
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Health Care Finance (HCS 582) |
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Healthcare |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course presents the concepts of financial accounting important to the understanding of the financial environment of the health care industry. Students interpret financial statements, prepare analyses of financial data necessary to make decisions, describe the different third party payment methods, experiment with cost finding and price setting, and conduct break-even analyses. The course provides students with experience in capital and operating budgets, financial forecasts, and business plan preparation. Students will be expected to expand their utilization of spreadsheet applications. |
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Health Care Finance (HCS 579) |
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Healthcare |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course is devoted to practical aspects of finance in health care, examination of recent developments in financial management of health care organizations, and applications of financial management techniques to specific problems facing health care managers. Topics will include 1) health care economics 2) contract negotiation 3) reimbursement methods 4) managed care 5) resource allocation 6) resource management. |
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Health Care Grantsmanship (HCA5016) |
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Northcentral University |
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This course introduces the Learner to the methods and means of acquiring a private or public sector grant. Course work focuses on locating funding sources, conducting needs/demand assessments, reviewing the RFP (Request for Proposal), writing the proposal and administration of the grant. |
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Health Care Infrastructure (HCS 521) |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course will be a discussion of the fundamentals of decision-making and legislative issues and their impact on health care systems in our society. Through the filter of politics, policy, regulatory environments and economics, students will critically analyze topics as applied to health-care providers and organizations. It will include an examination of the following current areas: 1) evolution to current delivery systems 2) economic theory, principles, and analytical tools 3) legislative and regulatory influences on the health care system 4) the policy process 5) shaping public policy in health care 6) alternative health care and changing social culture and 7) health care reform and future trends. |
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Health Care Infrastructure (HCS 520) |
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University of Phoenix |
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Central concepts related to health care regulation, economics, and politics are analyzed. Students interpret the impact of legal and regulatory requirements on the process of decision making in health care. The role of economics in driving health care reform and use of alternative health care systems is critically evaluated. |
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Health Care Legal and Ethical Issues (HCA5013) |
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Northcentral University |
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This course explores the legal and ethical issues impacting the provision of health care in America. Subject matter will include organ donation and transplantation; termination of life support; rights of terminally ill patients and consent issues; abortion; the impact of state and federal regulatory bodies on legal and ethical issues; patient and provider relationships. The legal aspects of health care administration are integrated into and in synthesis with the concepts of professional conduct and health care industry defined ethics. Quite often, in fact more often than not, society holds to one set of ethical values and beliefs, while technological advances undermine those beliefs and subsequently force change. The role of the health care professional in this surging tide of change is multi-faceted and often difficult. It is the health care professional who must push the frontiers of medicine, while striving to maintain a legal balance in terms of applying of the new technology. Society often clings to the perceived safety and stability of the past. The accountability of implementing new technology and proof of its value weighs on the medical community. |
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Health Care Marketing (DHA 714) |
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University of Phoenix |
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Survival of health care institutions is primarily dependent on how well marketing succeeds at acquiring market share. This course examines key marketing concepts within the health care industry. Students will examine the financial success of health care institutions from a market share perspective including pricing, promotion, and distribution of services. |
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Health Care Marketing (HCA5018) |
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Northcentral University |
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This course is designed to provide Learners with a comprehensive study of health care marketing in business and clinical settings. |
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Health Care Organizations (HCS 530) |
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University of Phoenix |
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This course is a comprehensive approach to health care organizations and systems that provide the student with an in-depth understanding of health organizations. Topics include the evolution of health care delivery organization during a time of financial and regulatory stress, the impact of the evolving consumer movement, and managing efficient and effective organizational structures. |
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Health Care Policy Analysis and Development (HCA5014) |
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Northcentral University |
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This course provides the Learner with an overview of the factors which govern and impact on the development of health care policy in America. |
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Health Care Strategic Management (HCS 586) |
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University of Phoenix |
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This is the capstone course for the MBA/HCM and MHA degree programs. The development and presentation of health care organization's strategic plan will demonstrate mastery of the critical content of the MBA program as the principles relate to the healthcare industry. Special emphasis is placed upon consumer demand, market volatility, regulatory and fiscal constraints from the perspective of strategic management. The learner will demonstrate understanding of the critical importance of strategic management and planning within the dynamic, complex, and evolving nature of the health care industry. |
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Health Insurance and Managed Care (HS546) |
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Healthcare |
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Keller Graduate School of Management |
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This course examines the evolution of health insurance products and development of managed care approaches to delivering and financing health services in the United States. Fundamental insurance concepts and risk management are reviewed, as are forces that have driven growth of managed care. Types of managed care organizations and operational models are outlined. Consumer, provider, purchaser and insurer of health care perspectives are discussed. Recent trends and issues affecting further evolution of health insurance and managed care are considered. Relevant legislative and regulatory standards that shape the insurance and managed care industry are described, and their implications for operations are considered. |
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Health Policy (DM555) |
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Healthcare |
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American Public University |
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This course is designed to give the student an in-depth understanding of the roles that government and the consumer (the patient) can, and do, play in the ever-evolving health care industry. This course places special emphasis on politics and ethics and what results when they clash, as well as how politics and ethics form the mental attitudes of decision makers. This course is rich in information on the various political and ethical dilemmas facing the patients in the new millennium. |
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