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Healthcare Business Analytics Certificate – Online
GMBA 736 Human Resource Management
3 credits Prerequisites: GMHA 602 The knowledge, skills, and abilities of the workers in a firm are its most valuable resource. This course helps students recognize the strategic importance of human resource management. The student will explore contemporary techniques of resource analysis, testing, recruiting, selection, training, appraisal, and compensation planning, and will integrate these techniques with the strategic focus of the firm.
GMHA 799 Healthcare Strategic Management
3 credits Prerequisites: Completion of all 600 level MHA courses This last course in the Gannon MHA program consolidates learning from every other course in a real-life strategic analysis of a healthcare organization in transition. The course focuses on the main processes in planning and delivering health care to the community, such as needs assessment, feasibility studies, strategic marketing design, and implementation and evaluation strategies and methods. This course is an application exercise simulating activities healthcare administrators engage in daily, pulling information from various sources and packaging it for effective decision making. The course is intended to be a practical, interesting, exciting, and informative culmination for the MHA program.
Director: Rick Stachel, D.Sc., MBA
INTRODUCTION.
The Healthcare Business Analytics certificate provides the essential capabilities necessary for individuals who want to establish themselves as recognized professionals with expertise in the collection, analysis and reporting of business data in a healthcare environment. The program is designed for working healthcare professionals or individuals who may have experience in business analytics but want to build upon their strengths to transition into healthcare. The certificate develops competencies in healthcare data analytics by exposing students to the tools and models encountered in various analytics disciplines in healthcare organizations and is taught by experts in their respective fields.
Because the credits associated with the certificate are part of the Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program, students can use the certificate as a steppingstone to completion of the MHA. The certificate, which is composed of four courses, is delivered online and is designed to be completed in one academic year. Students will begin in the fall, and they will complete the coursework in 7-week increments, concluding the program in the spring of the following calendar year. The certificate outcomes have been aligned with the Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHiMS) certification offered through the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS), and after completion of the certificate program, students will be prepared to sit for the CAHiMS certification exam.
CERTIFICATE OUTCOMES
After completing the certificate, the participants will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the history, utilization, influences and challenges of technology within healthcare organizations and use that to recommend technology solutions that delivery data-driven improvements. 2. Obtain an understanding of data management and various analytical methods and models designed to answer critical healthcare business questions to deliver quality care to patients. 3. Experiment with the analytical functions of Electronic Health
Record (EHR) systems and determine the significance of data analysis outputs in delivering value to patient care and business performance. 4. Work collaboratively to gather and analyze stakeholder needs and requirements to align those with healthcare services and product priorities and objectives. 5. Apply data analytics principles to evaluate business structures, sources of capital, project cash flow, revenue cycles and thirdparty payment models.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
1. Undergraduate degree (or expected completion of an undergraduate degree prior to enrollment) with a minimum 3.00 overall GPA. 2. Completed graduate application (online) 3. Official academic transcripts from all prior institutions 4. Professional resume
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
GMHA 602 Introduction to the US Healthcare System
3 credits Prerequisites: None This course sets the stage for understanding the US system. It includes an examination and analysis of how the US system works and the cultural basis of its organization and financing. Ability to lead in health care requires acknowledgment of how cultural beliefs and values about health and health care in a society impact how the system structure and financing have developed and how they can change. Examining the cultural beliefs underlying how the system works leads to many ‘aha!’ moments, even for seasoned healthcare professionals. Succeeding courses revisit these insights regularly in proposing solutions to thorny medical problems.
GMHA 606 Healthcare Information Systems and Technology
3 credits Prerequisites: GMHA 602 This survey and analysis of healthcare information systems planning, and leadership prepares health administrators to communicate productively with information technology and clinical professionals. The course explores the challenges of selecting and implementing information systems to achieve organizational mission. The course focuses on how and from whom health administrators should gather information and judge its veracity. It also considers other organizational data and issues that go into selection decisions and implementation plans. Attention will be given to various stakeholders and how to manage their impact on IT projects.
GMHA 611 Healthcare Research and Quantitative Methods
3 credits Prerequisites: GMHA 602 and Statistics This course focuses on the value of various research methods and resulting data for running an efficient and effective organization. The course focuses on the development of skills to assemble and analyze research information. The course acknowledges that most health administrators will not be designing and running research projects but that they must be able to communicate with researchers in a variety of disciplines. They must be able to recognize quality research protocols and select findings that can complement data from other disciplines in leadership decision making.
GMHA 661 Healthcare Finance
3 credits Prerequisites: GMHA 602 and Accounting or Finance This course explores financial theory and its practical application in healthcare across a full application in healthcare across a full range of facilities, from hospitals and home health agencies to skilled nursing facilities, surgical centers, and private physician practices.
