HealthCare@Anderson

MGMT 298D: Business of Healthcare

Winter '22

The business of healthcare is one of the largest in the U.S. This course will first provide an overview of the structure of our health system including the different healthcare delivery systems and their components, insurance and reimbursement models, key stakeholders, and healthcare reform. We will explore some of the ways the healthcare industry in the U.S. differs from that in other industrialized nations, and look deeper into the variety of different cost drivers that affect healthcare spending today, from consumerism to new technology and drugs to legal concerns. The goal of the course is to encourage active learning and engagement in exploring these complex issues for which there is no one right answer – students should leave the course with a better understanding not only of the current landscape of the business of healthcare but with a better understanding and motivation to approach the challenges of the industry with an innovative mindset.

MGMT 298D: Healthtech Entrepreneurship

Winter '22

*MGMT 298D Healthtech Entrepreneurship is an approved substitute for EVI for students pursuing a Business Creation Option capstone.

MGMT 298D: Quantitative Analysis for Health Systems

Winter '22

Policy M269: Healthcare Finance

This course provides students with an introduction to health economics for public policy. The course will cover research on the determinants of health, the relationship between medical spending and health, how health insurance works and doesn’t work, public health insurance programs, healthcare quality, the economics of prescription drugs, and the economics of health system reform. Finally, students will discuss current issues in healthcare policy.

MGMT 298: Healthcare Analytics

Not Offered '21-'22

With healthcare spending in the United States reaching 18% of GDP and the demand for health services continuing to increase, improvements in the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery are needed. This course explores how analytics tools can be used to describe relationships (linear regression), predict outcomes (logistic regression, classification trees), and prescribe solutions (optimization, resource allocation, cost-effectiveness analysis) to healthcare challenges.

Nursing 267: Healthcare Policy

Analysis of healthcare policies and how policies impact patient outcomes, clinical practice, healthcare delivery, and clinician wellbeing. Concepts related to policy making; formulating healthcare policy, how to affect political processes, and stakeholder involvement in policy decision-making and implementation. Content serves to develop understanding of increasing levels of public, governmental, and third party participation in and scrutiny of the healthcare system. Assembly bills effect on nursing are discussed. The clinical nurse leader role in health policy and advocacy emphasized, satisfies course requirements for CNL certification. N268 is a required didactic course.

MGMT 275: Healthcare Innovation/Technology

The course will address technologies and platforms poised to disrupt the healthcare industry. Disruptive innovations within the curriculum of this course encompass those which have the potential to fundamentally alter the delivery of healthcare through improved patient value, increased cost savings or changes in the practice of medicine. Topics covered will include digital health, consumer healthcare, personalized medicine and diagnostics, genomics and next generation sequencing, wireless sensing and remote monitoring, virtual and augmented reality, telemedicine, mobile health platforms, electronic medical records, and big data. The course will also include guest speakers from leading industry manufacturers, integrated health systems, and payers, as well as entrepreneurs and founders from the start-up ecosystem and interactive technology sessions.

Policy M241: Economics of Health Policy

This is a four-credit course open to Masters students who have completed HPM 236, PP 268, PP 269, or the equivalent first-level course in health economics, as well as to all doctoral students. The course will provide more advanced training in key health economics and policy issues, focusing on ways in which healthcare deviates from the assumptions of a competitive market and the resulting implications for the formulation of health policy.

Law 326: Health Law and Policy

This course is an introduction into the law, policy, politics, ethics, and economics of healthcare in the United States. We will explore and discuss the legal and policy considerations that have shaped the relationships between providers, payers, and patients, and how many areas of law (e.g., torts, contracts, antitrust, tax) develop in unique ways when applied to the healthcare industry. Among other topics, we will consider healthcare financing and reform, the right to die, organ transplantation, reproductive rights, genetic technologies and medical training.

TBD: Precision Medicine

Spring '22

HLT POL M215A: Healthcare Quality and Performance Management

Spring '22