HCAL

This course is designed to explore ethical theories in the context of moral and conceptual issues prevalent in the practice of healthcare professionals. The course provides students with a background in value development and dealing with ethical issues, including numerous real-life healthcare situations that generate moral concerns and ethical dilemmas. A variety of areas in medical ethics will be discussed, including topics involving ethical controversies such as confidentiality and truth-telling in the patient relationship, medical experimentation and informed consent, abortion, treatment decisions for seriously ill patients, physician-assisted suicide, and healthcare reform.

This course covers the principles of organization and supervision of human, fiscal, and capital resources in the healthcare setting. The course allows students to apply basic principles of personnel supervision, including developments and considerations vital to the performances of supervisors in today’s healthcare environment.

This course examines accounting systems, concepts, and principles related to Healthcare Organizations. Students will develop an understanding of the accounting process, relevant regulatory agencies and regulations as well as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in correlation to the US Healthcare Organizations. Students will gain an understanding of the role of accounting information when making sound economic decisions in regard to efficiently managing a healthcare department and/or organization.

Specialized Populations will explore theories, concepts, issues, and strategies for providing health care services to special populations. The populations will include: Mentally and Physically Disabled, Geriatrics, Military and Military Veterans, Opioid Users and Rehabilitation of Clients.

This course covers the social and behavioral foundations of healthcare knowledge needed to diagnose and understand individual, social network, organizational, community, and policy-maker behaviors associated with the planning, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of healthcare programs in the context of cross-cultural settings. A discussion of cultural considerations, types of families, and the social and behavioral theories that guide our understanding of health-related behavior and form the background for health promotion and prevention efforts will be included.

This course provides an in-depth knowledge of marketing through theories, concepts, skills, and principles of marketing as they apply to health care organizations and networks.

This course provides an overview of healthcare informatics and introduces students to the technology and the health information science used to identify, gather, process, and manage healthcare information. Focus is on developing an understanding of concepts relevant to healthcare informatics and the use of healthcare management information systems to support clinical, administrative, research, and educational decision-making in healthcare settings. Current trends and issues in using, designing, and managing healthcare management information systems will be examined.

This course covers the study of legal principles applicable to health information, patient care and health records. Students will be introduced to the American Legal System, courts and legal procedures, and the principles of liability. Topics covered include patient record requirements, access to health information, confidentiality and informed consent, the judicial process of health information, specialized patient records, risk management and quality assurance, HIV information, and the electronic health record.

This course provides an overview of healthcare economics and provides students with a set of economic tools to evaluate a theoretical or empirical argument relating to health care. Emphasis is placed on the basic economic concepts, principles, and theories, including supply and demand of healthcare services, markets for health professionals, healthcare providers, and spending on health care. Regulations, government financing of health care and healthcare reforms are discussed.

This course provides an overview of the principles of management, managerial functions, and organizational theories and their applications to healthcare organizations. Emphasis is on practical examples and techniques in the healthcare management field. The course also covers a wide variety of healthcare settings, examples of important issues in healthcare management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources. Understanding the functionary and configuration of healthcare organizations are all thoroughly covered.

This course focuses on the concept of quality and the process of quality improvement in healthcare facilities. The history and evolution of quality, its terms, principles, theories, and practices are discussed. Students will be introduced to a diverse collection of methods of improving quality, including, but not limited to, Continuous Quality Improvement and Total Quality Management, and to the guidelines for implementing quality management and the continuous quality improvement processes in healthcare settings.

This course provides students with an overview of healthcare informatics and reimbursement methodologies. Students will focus on analyzing revenue cycles from the perspective of the payer, patient, and the needs of the healthcare organization. Emphasis is on clinical documentation needs for coding, reimbursement, claims management, and revenue cycle and how technologies are used to manage these processes.