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Inactive: Master of Healthcare Admin (MHA) Courses

Academic Unit: Healthcare Management

MHA 3701 - Healthcare Marketplace: Principals and Agents in a Trillion-Dollar Economy
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was BA 3701H until 22-JAN-08
Introduction to healthcare sector markets for goods/services. Physician services, hospital services, insurance, long-term care, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, information technology. Lectures, recitations, presentations from healthcare business leaders.
MHA 6740 - Healthcare Organizational Behavior
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6540 until 17-MAY-21
Human behavior in organizations; motivation, leadership, influence of organizational structure, informal group behavior, interpersonal relations, supervision. Emphasis on preventing and solving problems among individuals and groups in organizations.
MHA 6741 - Introduction to Biostatistics
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6541 until 17-MAY-21
Variation: frequency distribution; measurement, probability; graphing; significance tests, estimation, trends; data handling; modeling; odds ratios; prevalence, incidence and vital statistics; research applications. Statistical approach to rational administrative decision making. Inductive teaching, lectures, computer and laboratory exercises.
MHA 6742 - Management of Healthcare Organizations
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6542 until 18-JAN-22
Role of hospital in health services delivery and relationships with other systems and the community. Emphasis on governance, medical staff, and role of administrator. Lectures and on site visits to health services organizations.
MHA 6743 - Health Policy and Ethics
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6543 until 02-SEP-08
Overview of public policies and ethics underlying financing, organization and delivery of healthcare services.
MHA 6744 - Principles of Problem Solving in Healthcare Organizations
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6544 until 17-MAY-21
Lectures, seminars, and demonstrations on problem-solving theory and technique. Solving a management problem within a health services organization and presenting a report.
MHA 6745 - Advanced Problem Solving
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6545 until 17-MAY-21
Defining, analyzing, and solving significant senior management-level operational or health public policy problems.
MHA 6747 - Healthcare Human Resources Management
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6547 until 17-MAY-21
Concepts in human resources management as applied to health services organizations. Relationship between human resources management and general management, nature of work and human resources, compensation and benefits, personnel planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, employee appraisal and discipline, union-management relations.
MHA 6748 - Medical Group Management
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6548 until 17-MAY-21
Overview of physicians group management in integrated delivery systemsphysician & admin roles, operational and strategic issues, alternative organizational models, risk-contracting, provider payment methods, managing change and effective communication.
MHA 6749 - Long Term Care Administration
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6549 until 02-SEP-08
Overview of practice-based and research-based knowledge for managing and designing long term care services.
MHA 6750 - Long Term Care Industry
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6550 until 02-SEP-08
Organization, financing, and delivery of long-term care services to the aged. Demographic trends, financing structures, public policies, societal responses to chronic illness.
MHA 6754 - Marketing Health Services
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6554 until 07-SEP-21
Managing the marketing function, marketing planning, strategy, and management concepts. Identifying marketing problems and opportunities; constructing, evaluating and managing a marketing plan.
MHA 6755 - Topics in Health Economics (Topics course)
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6555 until 17-MAY-21
General principles of health economics are applied to current issues in health. Implications for health policy are derived and discussed
MHA 6756 - Health and Health Systems
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6556 until 17-MAY-21
History and evolution of U.S. health/medical care systems. Determinants of health, threats to health. Promising avenues for programs/policies in prevention, health promotion, and protection.
MHA 6757 - Financial Management
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6557 until 17-MAY-21
Course covers the basic principles of corporate finance and not-for-profit finance. Topics include: net present value, financial analysis, capital budgeting, financing options and decisions, capital structure, capital asset pricing model, financial planning, and working capital management. Familiarity with computerized spread-sheets (LOTUS, EXCEL or other) is necessary.
MHA 6758 - Health Care Finance
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6558 until 07-SEP-21
Principles of corporate finance, not-for-profit finance, and insurance concepts integrated/applied to health care. Capital/operating budgets. Medicare's payment systems for hospitals/physicians, risk-adjusted capitation payment systems. Population-based health care finance, managed care. Financing aspects of public health policy and health care reform.
MHA 6760 - Operations Research and Quality in Health Care
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6560 until 17-MAY-21
Using a systems perspective to develop models to analyze/improve health care operations. Identifying data needs/sources to model structures, processes, and outcomes of care. Applying quality improvement, management sciences/operations research techniques to real world health care problems.
MHA 6761 - Quantitative Methods Applied to Health Administration Problems
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6561 until 17-MAY-21
Application of Quantitative methods to secondary data including analysis, data handling, stepwise multiple linear regression and discriminate analysis, pert, queuing, scheduling, inventory and simulation used to solve health administrative problems; group research thesis with verbal and written presentations.
MHA 6762 - Information Technology in Health Care
(2 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6562 until 07-SEP-21
Managing information as a strategic resource within health care organizations. Designing information technology systems to capture, combine, and transform information to measure processes/outcomes of care, support collaborative clinical decision making, support management decisions, empower patients, and improve health care operations.
MHA 6763 - Strategic Management in Healthcare Industry
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6563 until 17-MAY-21
Applies organizational theory, organizational analysis, organizational behavior, and competitive analysis to providers, suppliers, and insurers in the healthcare industry.
MHA 6764 - Managed Care
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6564 until 07-SEP-21
Development and organization of HMOs and PPOs: risk sharing, provider contracts, utilization management, quality improvement, marketing, and new product development; employer relations; Medicare and Medicaid contracting; budget processing; financial performance; pricing; government regulations.
MHA 6766 - Applied Field Research I
(2 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6566 until 02-SEP-08
Study design, inductive and hypothetical reasoning, data acquisition methods, hypothesis and rationale construction; modeling; under faculty supervision, students select and develop a research project of importance in healthcare administration and formulate research questions and approach for field study.
MHA 6767 - Applied Field Research II
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6567 until 02-SEP-08
Under faculty supervision, student investigates alternative methodological approaches to the student?s research topic selected in MHA 6766; carries out the research analysis of the selected research project; makes a written and verbal report of the analysis and findings.
MHA 6770 - Topics: Healthcare Administration (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6570 until 15-MAY-23
Selected readings in healthcare administration with discussion based on those readings
MHA 6771 - Principles, Practices, Ethics and Issues of Public Health
(1 cr; S-N or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6571 until 17-MAY-21
Survey course of the history of, key players in and future trends of major PH programs in epidemiology, environmental health, maternal and child health, long term care, nutrition, child abuse, etc by are experts.
MHA 6774 - Health E-Commerce
(2 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6574 until 17-MAY-21
Health e-commerce case studies from portal, infrastructure, business-to-business, business-to-consumer enterprises are critically examined to provide a framework for market opportunities, barriers to entry, return on investment. Students are evaluated by written analysis, class participation.
MHA 6775 - Pharmaceutical Industry: Business and Policy
(2 cr; A-F only)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6575 until 17-JAN-06, PHAR 6235 (ending 18-JAN-05), PUBH 6575 (inactive, ending 20-JAN-04, starting 21-JAN-03, was MHA 6775 until 06-SEP-05)
Business and policy issues specific to the pharmaceutical industry. Future managers in the industry and in the health sector gain an in-depth understanding of the field through interdisciplinary perspectives and active involvement by industry leaders.
MHA 6789 - Medical Technology Evaluation and Market Research
(2 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6589 until 17-MAY-21
Analytical tools for formulating evaluations of innovations in medical technologies. Disseminating results to get a new product to market.
MHA 6796 - Legal Considerations in Health Services
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6596 until 17-MAY-21
Laws affecting administration of hospitals and other healthcare organizations; administrative law, corporate and business law, labor law, civil liability and tax-related issues. Legal issues relevant to the administrator, decision making and planning process.
MHA 7746 - Clerkship
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Summer)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 7596 until 17-MAY-21
Survey and solution of management problems within a local health services organization, preparation of formal management report.
MHA 8762 - Contemporary Problems in Healthcare
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was PUBH 6551 until 17-MAY-21
Current concepts, problems, principles, and future developments of health and healthcare selected by students; developing models, based on current literature and research; verbal and written presentations from policy and issue perspectives.
MHA 8763 - External Forces Affecting Health Services Delivery
(2 cr; Prereq-PhD student; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Guidance in development of concepts, models, and principles of financing, social policy making, and organizing and human resource development for health services delivery. Written paper and teaching presentation required.
MHA 8782 - Research Practicum
(2 cr; Prereq-PhD student; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Field experience in healthcare research. Supervised independent and team research on selected topics and problems.

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