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patient-provider relationships, fraud and abuse, antitrust, and health legislation. This course will also examine selected business law topics including agency and partnership, business corporations, and joint ventures. GMHA 661 Healthcare Finance 3 credits Prerequisites: GMHA 601 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. GMBA 641 Operations and Supply Chain Management 3 credits Prerequisite: GMHA 601 and Statistics The course is designed to introduce students to the principles of operations and supply chain management and their application in decision making. The topics covered include logistics, transportation, inventory management, warehousing, materials management, global supply, demand management, project management, e-commerce, finance, and network design. GMBA 736 Human Resource Management 3 credits Prerequisites: GMHA 601 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.
Healthcare Business Analytics Certificate – Online 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.
