The program is scheduled to be convenient for working professions. Classes are held on Friday evenings and Saturday days, every other week. Some courses are offerered on-line via the internet. Services are analyzed from both the impact of individual health status and that of enrolled populations and how they affect utilization of health services. The orientation of integrated managed care is based on the organization and delivery of community based, primary health care service networks.
Tuition covers textbooks and reading materials.
A survey course using an epidemiological framework to explore selected quantitative methods in addressing management problems and decisi ons in health care delivery systems. Managerial applications in the use of anal ytic techniques as employed to support decision making in health care systems re lated to cost-benefit analysis, reducing clinical variability, program and decis ion analysis using system and population based data. Also the application of fo recasting, linear programming, network models and selected biostatistical techn iques as applied in health systems management. An examination of the tools and methods of financial mana gement in Health Care organizations and systems with emphasis on allocation and use of funds. Analysis of costs and constraints of alternative source of funds a nd the application of financial decision instruments and their effect on operati onal management and market value of the entity is covered.