HCD Spring 1 Courses

HCD0721 Navigating Healthcare Policy Reform

Credits: 3 Offered: Spring 1

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program For current and aspiring health care managers, this course seeks to illuminate central components of health care policy, a critically important area. The course also examines the political forces that have created the different types of public intervention that constitute current US health care policy. It explores how the government (especially the federal government) has influenced the voluntary and private institutions in the healthcare system, and how public policy intervention has built up steadily since World War II. You will gain a better understanding of the policy constraints and opportunities you confront in your work. You will gain a greater ability to position yourself and your organization to influence political dynamics and policy outcomes.

HCD0760 Leading and Managing Health Care

Credits: 3 Offered: Spring 1

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program This course is designed to increase the critical leadership competencies that are essential for the leaders of the most complex health care organizations. In order for organizations to flourish in the current environment, leaders must be aware of their own idiosyncrasies, as well as their strengths, weaknesses, values, and ways they resolve conflicts. They also must excel at building and leading teams, interdependent functions, and large scale systems. Successful leaders of tomorrow must be experts in change management, labor-management relations, and strategic organizational leadership. The Course will enhance what you have learned from experience through frameworks and models that will prepare you to understand the relationship between senior leadership and the health care organization’s attainment of competitive advantage.

HCD0820 Health Information Systems

Credits: 3 Offered: Spring 1

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program The health care field is one of the most information-intensive sectors in the US economy and avoidance of the rapid advances in information technology is no longer an option. Consequently, the study of health care information technology and systems has become central to health care delivery effectiveness. This course covers the modern application of information technology that is critical to supporting the vision and operational knowledge of health care leaders. Health care decision makers must meet head-on the dynamic challenges of health care delivery, quality, cost, access, and regulatory control. In addition, this course integrates the Healthcare Information System as integral to the Quality Assurance Tracking Programs. This includes measurement of systems inputs, processes, and outputs with special emphasis on systems outcomes research and organizational accountability to its various stakeholders, notably government regulators.

HCD0840 Operations Management in Health Care

Credits: 3 Offered: Fall

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program

This course provides a solid foundation in the role of production and operations management in the health care industry. You will review the integration of human, economic and technological factors inaccomplishing the operations management mission and executing the related strategies. Among the many important topics are: evidence-based medicine, balanced scorecard, statistics, forecasting, simulation, capacity planning, scheduling, location analysis for clinics, process strategy involving patient flow, supply chain management, project management, and quality control management. We will also examine the role of ethics within the framework of the operations management's sub-functions.

HCD0860 Transformations and Innovations

Credits: 2 Offered: Spring 1

ONLY OPEN to students in the MS Health Care Delivery Leadership Program This course immerses you in best-in-class microsystems methods that organize front-line health care delivery to maximize quality, value, and flexibility for innovation. The Microsystem approaches provide defined processes and techniques which serve as an effective vehicle for implementing organizational change at the point of care. The course will focus on planning processes, tools and techniques that can be applied immediately in clinical settings. Several Mount Sinai and other hospital-based clinical microsystem innovations will be examined as detailed case studies.