Part-Time Health Sector MBA

COURSE CODE: hm703

This course provides a dynamic introduction to the health sector, beginning with the burden and distribution of disease and current patterns of expenditures. While the emphasis will be on the American system, a global context will be developed. The basic elements of insurance and payment, service delivery, and life sciences products will be described, and put in the context of the unique economic structure of the sector. The intense challenges of the sector will be explored, as well as both the ethical issues presented and the opportunities that emerge. Public policy and technological and practice development as drivers of change will be addressed throughout.

COURSE CODE: hm820

This course provides students with tools from the fields of economics, strategy, and finance to understand the problems faced by firms involved in both the provision and payment sides of the health care sector along with those in the life-sciences industry. The course focuses on models that clarify the tradeoffs in the healthcare sector. The goal is to provide students with frameworks for profit maximization, frameworks that are unique to healthcare.

COURSE CODE: hm710

This course will provide knowledge and skills needed to develop and implement systems capable of delivering accessible, high quality, efficient health care services. It will draw upon relevant information from disciplinary areas of study including strategy, operations, marketing, finance, law, human resources, quality improvement, and information technology.

COURSE CODE: hm717

This course will examine issues and opportunities in life sciences including the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices sectors and the life sciences service industry supporting these sectors. The course will investigate who manages these companies and what are the strategies that are used to build successful enterprises. There will be a review of the expertise that is needed in these companies or that must be out-sourced including development, manufacturing, marketing and finance. The principals governing the industry including patent law, regulatory and FDA compliance will be addressed. Formerly, "Bio-Pharma and Medical Device Companies: Strategies, Solutions and Execution"

COURSE CODE: hm710

This course will provide knowledge and skills needed to develop and implement systems capable of delivering accessible, high quality, efficient health care services. It will draw upon relevant information from disciplinary areas of study including strategy, operations, marketing, finance, law, human resources, quality improvement, and information technology.

COURSE CODE: hm717

This course will examine issues and opportunities in life sciences including the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices sectors and the life sciences service industry supporting these sectors. The course will investigate who manages these companies and what are the strategies that are used to build successful enterprises. There will be a review of the expertise that is needed in these companies or that must be out-sourced including development, manufacturing, marketing and finance. The principals governing the industry including patent law, regulatory and FDA compliance will be addressed. Formerly, "Bio-Pharma and Medical Device Companies: Strategies, Solutions and Execution"

COURSE CODE: hm801

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COURSE CODE: hm817

For students interested in enhancing their skills for positions in the rapidly growing field of healthcare information technology, this course utilizes healthcare delivery, life science, and business leaders to deliver current perspectives and trends in the use of information technology (IT) to enhance patient care outcomes while delivering more cost-effective care. Students explore various methods and approaches that can be applied to both develop and evaluate IT systems encompassing electronic medical records, administrative systems, healthcare mobile applications, and the emerging field of digital therapeutics. The course provides strategic perspectives important to the healthcare chief information officer, chief medical information officer, other managers, prospective healthcare IT entrepreneurs, and users of both clinical and administrative IT systems. Its focus is not on the technical specialist.

COURSE CODE: hm833

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COURSE CODE: hm840

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COURSE CODE: hm848

This course examines an array of compelling opportunities for innovation, incremental and disruptive, across products and services, created within existing organizations or by starting new businesses. It bridges design and implementation, examining the unique and complex array of elements that make successful innovation in the health sector so difficult, and developing the skills and knowledge needed to effectively address those challenges. The course provides a conceptual framework, and then emphasizes hands-on engagement, concrete exercises, written cases, and in-class speakers who are engaged in real-world innovation initiatives. Students will have the opportunity to focus on areas of particular interest and relevance to current or future work. They will leave better equipped to drive or support the viable, value-creating innovation so desperately needed in the health sector.

COURSE CODE: om840

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COURSE CODE: si814

Formerly FE814 (students who took FE814 may not take SI814). This course covers the ways in which companies use intellectual property to protect their investments in knowledge assets. Traditionally a concern for technology-intensive businesses, patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets have become important business tools throughout the knowledge-based economy. A good understanding of what IP assets are and how they work has become essential for managers in all types of organizations. This is not a law course, nor a how-to manual rather it is intended to develop your analytical understanding of fundamental economic and legal aspects of intellectual property systems, and how they drive competition and strategy.