Healthcare Management
Master of Healthcare Management
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Take the next step in your career or make the transition into healthcare administration with the Master of Healthcare Management. Study alongside expert faculty, combine a diverse healthcare curriculum with core business classes, and gain hands-on healthcare consulting experience.
Our healthcare community is dedicated to staying at the forefront of an evolving field. You will learn to evaluate challenges and leverage new opportunities with an understanding of the core business principles at work in the healthcare industry.
The 30 credit curriculum includes seven core courses and nine electives in the concentration of your choice. Choose from two start dates per year and complete the program in as little as 12 months.
No GMAT, GRE required.
*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.
The curriculum for this program includes:
This course provides an introduction to the financial accounting and reporting process from a user's perspective. You will learn how economic transactions of an enterprise are reported in the financial statements and related disclosures.
Explore microeconomic theory and applications for business management decision making.
Healthcare expenditures now account for more than 1/6 of Gross Domestic Product in the United States. This class will explore the sources of funding for those expenditures, and the rapidly changing trends therein.
Provides students with an overview of the basic concepts and analytical techniques employed in corporate finance. The goal of this class is to provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of finance enabling students to pursue further study in any area of finance.
This course focuses on the management and organization of health care delivery, particularly in the United States. The course examines the salient features of the health care context, the unique challenges these features produce for managers in that industry, and solutions that organizations have used to address those challenges.
This course introduces students to the concepts and practices of healthcare information systems. Topics include: introduction to the health IT discipline, major applications and commercial vendors, decision support methods and technologies, information systems design and engineering, and new opportunities and emerging trends.
Explore market and customer analysis for product service, price, promotion and distribution decisions. Study marketing management theories and practices to maximize customer value and satisfaction.
Outcomes
Skills
Earning your Master of Healthcare Management in Healthcare Management will build core skills, including:
- Accounting
- Auditing
- Billing
- Data analysis
- Finance
- Marketing
- Nursing
- Process improvement
- Project management
- Workflow management
Potential Career Paths
Graduates of the MHM in Healthcare Management program will be prepared to pursue the following careers:
Enhance your leadership skills with a concentration in Healthcare Leadership. Pursue specialized courses including Healthcare Accounting, Leading Healthcare Change and Healthcare Leadership.
Courses in this concentration include:
| This course covers financial and managerial accounting topics relevant to the healthcare industry. Concepts covered include the financial and operational implications of changes in healthcare reimbursement; understanding and analyzing external financial statements for taxable and tax-exempt healthcare entities; usefulness of capital and operating budgets; practical applications of managerial accounting; and decision-making tools for managers within healthcare enterprises. |
This course covers theory and technique for leading organizations through transformation at the broad strategic level and in terms of improving operations, all within the unique context and challenges of the health care industry.
You will learn about leadership in a way that is engaging and insightful. You will use a number of interviews with healthcare leaders to help understand the subtleties of leadership action. You will also use a number of exercises, cases, and reflections to have you experience different elements of effective leadership. The exam, term paper, and other writing assignments will ask you to analyze and reflect, rather than simply memorize and recite.
Gain the skills to spur new initiatives with a specialization in Healthcare Innovation. Take courses including Healthcare Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Marketing Strategy and Healthcare Quality and Reliability.
Courses in this concentration include:
In this course, you will focus your business and entrepreneurial skills on contemporary healthcare challenges and opportunities. Through a series of readings, case studies, discussions, guest speakers, and assignments, you will explore a number of contemporary healthcare problems and identify entrepreneurial solutions to these problems. Graduate-level requirements include completion of one additional assignment.
In this course, you will take a "customer-centric" view and explore how participants in the health-care sector (physicians & nurses, hospital administrators, executives in the pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors, as well as various intermediaries who service the sector) can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their offerings (both products and services) to help with the needs of their customers- the consumers of health care, i.e. the patients and their families.
| This course will explore the principles of High Reliability Organizations (HRO's) and apply them to healthcare organizations. You will begin with investigating the need for a paradigm shift in healthcare culture that addresses healthcare reform, value-based purchasing, healthcare regulation and the increased complexity in healthcare that makes it nearly impossible to eradicate all healthcare errors. |
Focus on data analysis in the healthcare industry with a concentration in Healthcare Informatics. Enroll in advanced courses including Data Mining for Business Intelligence, Data Visualization and Health Analytics.
Courses in this concentration include:
This course will cover data mining for business intelligence. Data mining refers to extracting or "mining" knowledge from large amounts of data. It consists of several techniques that aim at discovering rich and interesting patterns that can bring value or "business intelligence" to organizations. Examples of such patterns include fraud detection, consumer behavior, and credit approval. The course will cover the most important data mining techniques - classification, clustering, association rule mining, visualization, prediction - through a hands-on approach using XL Miner and other specialized software, such as the open-source WEKA software.
The goal of this class is to introduce students to principles and tools of data visualizations and create visualizations using appropriate tools for two different but related purposes: (1) exploration; and (2) presentation. The first part is about trying to understand the data and test hypotheses that drive the data visualization effort, and formulate a story; the second part is to convey that finding to others in a convincing manner.
+12 months to complete
No GMAT or GRE Exam Required
3 concentrations
CAPSTONE PROJECT
Apply your learning in the field. You will have the opportunity to scope, research, plan and execute a project that delivers real value for a healthcare organization. Experience how decisions are made in real-time, develop a project methodology and learn to effectively communicate your findings and recommendations.
