HMI 7590:Health Care Industry: Economics, Strategy, and Leadership

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HMI 7510
This course is intended exclusively for students enrolled in the Masters in Healthcare Management and Informatics degree program. The overall objective of the course is to provide the students of the program with the business acumen, analytical and leadership skills needed for the successful creation, distribution, and management of health care services in the contemporary healthcare industry. The course will emphasize the value based approach to health care industry analysis and its use in strategic planning, competitive analysis, strategic decision making and implementation. The course format will include lectures, real examples and cases and some guest lectures by experienced industry leaders. Topics covered will include Economics of Health care Industry, Strategic Gaming and Competitive Analysis and Value Chain in Health Care and how to use these tools for Strategic leadership in the healthcare industry. Each topic will be introduced through the primary text book, cases and articles on relevant topics and presentations. This course provides the student with foundation of business knowledge, and the analytical and leadership skills needed in the complicated economic environments of health care industry.