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Master of Science in Health Care ManagementProgram Curriculum for Academic Year 2014-15*Full timeStudents focus intensively on the most critical business and leadership issues facing health care today. They learn how to make informed decisions about all aspects of health care management, including effective delivery of high- quality health care, industry consolidation, escalating costs, disproportionate access, effective health information technology, conflicts of interest and misaligned incentives, and ever-increasing regulation.The rigorous curriculum of the MS in Health Care Management program at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School enables students to: Apply the most relevant business skills and principles, and make informed decisions based on this knowledge Gain an in-depth understanding of complex health care issues in order to lead and change enterprises Develop the knowledge, confidence and judgment to anticipate needed changes in a dynamic industryProgram RequirementsThe program requires 36 credits. Full-time students must complete the program in 3 semesters: Fall, Spring and Summer.CurriculumBusiness Foundations (18 credits) 120.601Business Communication131.601Leadership Ethics Seminar210.620Accounting and Financial Reporting220.620Economics for Decision Making350.620Information Systems410.620Marketing Management510.601Statistical Analysis520.601Decision Models680.620Operations ManagementFunctional Core (6 credits) 550.620 Health Care Delivery 550.605 Legal Foundations of Health Care 550.610 Health Care FinancingElective courses (12 credits) Students choose 6 courses from the following: 555.610 Leading Health Care Organizations 555.620 Evaluating Health Care Innovations 350.720 Emerging Frontiers in Health Care: Strategy and Technology 555.710 Applied and Behavioral Economics in Health Care 510.650 Data Analytics 150.710 Professional Discovery to Market I 150.715 Professional Discovery to Market II 557.710 Clinical Practice Improvement 863.610.81 The Wire: Business Solutions to Urban Economic, Social and Public Health Issues*The program curriculum is reviewed and approved for each academic year. The school reserves a right to make changes in the program curriculum. Students planning to apply for the academic year 2015-16 should consider this document an example of the program curriculum.Course DescriptionsBusiness Foundations (18 credits)120.601 Business CommunicationThis course refines students skills in written and oral communication to internal and external audiences Through analyses and practice of communication strategies adopted by successful business professionals, students learn to write clearly and concisely, make compelling oral presentations, construct effective arguments. (2 credits)131.601 Leadership Ethics SeminarThis course explores ethical leadership as a framework for enterprise value creation in a complex environment of competing economic and moral claims. Students examine the intrinsic ethical challenges of leadership and the concept of a moral compass as a foundation for responding effectively to the ethical challenges of corporate citizenship and value creation in a competitive global economy. (2 credits)210.620 Accounting and Financial ReportingThis course emphasizes the vocabulary, methods, and processes by which business transactions are communicated. Topics include the accounting cycle; basic business transactions involving assets, liabilities, equity, account revenue, and expense; as well as preparation and understanding of financial statements, including balance sheets, statements of income, and cash flows.220.620 Economics for Decision MakingThis is a microeconomics course with emphasis on the application of economic principles and methodologies to managerial decision problems. Major topics include consumer choice and demand, production and costs, market structures and output/price decisions. (2 credits)350.620 Information SystemsThis course addresses how markets, market mechanisms, and channels of product and service delivery are impacted and often transformed by information and communication technologies. Students will learn how technology, brought together with people and processes into systems, contributes to leveraging the creation of business value. The course considers different elements of the information architecture of the corporation and its impact on the nature of the work and the structure of the corporation. (2 credits)410.620 Marketing ManagementThis course covers principles of market-driven managerial decision making that determine competitiveness in dynamic consumer and organizational markets. Particular areas of emphasis include industry analyses, dynamics of competition, market segmentation, target marketing, channels of distribution, and product and pricing decisions. In-depth analytical skills are developed through case analyses, class discussions, role playing, and applied projects. (2 credits)510.601 Statistical AnalysisStudents learn statistical techniques for further study in business, economics, and finance. The course covers sampling distributions, probability, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, basic modeling, analysis of variance, and chi-square testing. The course emphasizes statistics to solve management problems. Case studies, spreadsheets, and SPSS computer software are used. (2 credits)520.601 Decision ModelsThis course will introduce you to some of the decision modeling techniques available for analyzing business problems. Topics covered include decision analysis, nonlinear optimization, linear optimization, integer optimization, and simulation. You will become familiar with identifying problems, formulating models, solving them in a spreadsheet and then interpreting the results. (2 credits)680.620 Operations ManagementThe production of goods and services requires obtaining resources, transforming them into products, and then moving them through a distribution system to reach customers. Students take a process view ofthese value-added functions that lead to an understanding of how to make design choices that lead to more efficient and effective production.Functional Core (6 credits)550.620 Health Care DeliveryThis course covers the organization of care delivery and the perspectives of its stakeholders (patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, employers, communities, and government) and the unique attributes of the health care market, products and services. It provides an overview of the evolution, structure and current challenges in the current US health care system as compared to nationalized health care delivery systems. Business models for acute, primary and chronic care services and the horizontal and vertical integration of care are analyzed, as are the legal and organizational models of hospitals and integrated delivery systems, physician partnerships, and post-acute care facilities. (2 credits)550.605 Legal Foundations of Health CareThis course provides students with an overview of the legal environment as it affects medicine and business. Cutting-edge cases are utilized as students explore medical malpractice, negligence, liability (physician, product, and corporate), intellectual property, criminal aspects of healthcare, patient consent and rights, and healthcare reform.550.610 Health Care FinancingThis course covers the analysis of the major financial decisions of corporations in the health care industry and application of techniques of corporate finance in the health care industry. Financial and operating decisions in the health care industry are discussed as is the valuation of profitability and cost performance of service and product lines, the impact of cost containment and competition on hospitals and integrated delivery systems and other providers, modeling of cost drivers in health care including cost and production functions, cost accounting systems and concept of price and value. This course will also deal with managed care and risk management in relation to the relative roles of private sector and public sector insurance and providers, and the effect of delivery system design on cost, quality, and efficiency and equity. Topics related to the payment for the elderly, the poor, medically indigent and the underinsured are covered. Finally, innovations such as insurance exchanges and changing models of employer self-insurance are explored. (2 credits)Elective courses (12 credits) Students choose 6 courses from the following:555.610 Leading Health Care OrganizationsThis course introduces concepts and tools in the management and promotion of change in health care organizations. It covers basic concepts in team science and organizational development, and leadership strategies for creating diverse high performing inter-professional teams. It discusses the unique attributes of the health care workforce in relation to compensation and incentives, legal and compliance requirements, workforce planning and development and performance management. Finally, the course introduces the science and practice of patient safety, and process re-engineering in the context of change management.555.620 Evaluating Health Care InnovationsThe course discusses how the different components of the health care value chain contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of health care innovation and addresses the issues of complementarities and substitutes in the functioning of the different components of the health care value chain. It covers methods of developing and implementing new programs and technologies in health care, using principles of market assessment, technology assessment, and business case analysis. Topics include methods and approaches to evaluating, adoption, and dissemination of new health technologies; techniques for comparative effectiveness analysis; assessing corporate innovation management processes, the design and management of new product development life cycles including processes, outsourcing, distributed design; approaches to implementing of new technologies in various settings. (2 credits)350.720 Emerging Frontiers in Health Care: Strategy and TechnologyThis course examines healthcare organizations from the perspective of managing the information systems that exist within the enterprise. Identifying the clinical and healthcare delivery processes and how they relate to information systems is a main focus. The intent of the course is to identify the key issues confronting the management of healthcare information systems today, examine their causes, and develop reasonable solutions to these issues. Specific federal regulations, vendor solutions, and financial implications as they relate to healthcare information systems are also examined (2 credits) Course formerly offered as BU.320.701. Students cannot use credits for both BU.350.720 AND BU.320.701 towards any degree or certificate requirements.555.710 Applied and Behavioral Economics in Health CareThis course covers the application of economic theory to the health care markets and decision-making. It explores the economic analysis of the health care industry across the continuum of care, including the role of non-profit and for-profit providers, the nature of competition, the effects of regulation and antitrust activity on hospitals, the effects of alternatives to hospital care and shifting of services between inpatient and outpatient settings and its effect on health care costs and quality. The course builds on analytical tools of economics applied to issues in health care to explore the use of economic incentives to influence health behavior, the role of asymmetric information and agency in health care, the role of decision making biases as it applies to health care, the incentive implications of government as payer and regulator, issues surrounding equity and ethics, the role of health insurance in the economics of pricing, and the theory of the firm as it applies to physicians, hospitals, and systems. (2 credits)510.650 Data AnalyticsThis course prepares students to gather, describe, and analyze data, using advanced statistical tools to support operations, risk management, and response to disruptions. Analysis is done targeting economic and financial decisions in complex systems that involve multiple partners. Topics include: probability, statistics, hypothesis testing, experimentation, and forecasting.150.710 Professional Discovery to Market IThe focus of this course is the commercialization of technological discoveries: tangible products like compounds, drugs or devices as well as intangible products or “know-how.” The development and deployment of technological advances is the underpinning of global economic development, and such advances represent significant business opportunities as well. Whether by using, developing or acquiring innovations and inventions, inventors, entrepreneurs and managers must fully understand the invention and commercialization process regardless of their seats at the table.This course covers the concepts and organizational issues involved in generating innovations; recognizing and screening technology opportunities; the legal and regulatory foundations of commercialization including intellectual property and technology transfer; strategies for commercialization. This course will help answer questions such as: When is an idea an invention? Who owns the invention? How can the invention be protected so as to maximize its commercial value? What are the steps to bringing the invention to market? What are the strategic options and which best fits the situation?Professional Discovery to Market I provides the foundational content for the project work in Professional Discovery to Market II. As a result of this course students should be able to assess the feasibility of commercializing a scientific discovery, define the process required to bring it to market and recommend the best strategy to do so.150.715 Professional Discovery to Market IIThis course is the second of two courses in the two part Professional Discovery to Market sequence. The focus of this course is the commercialization of technological discoveries: tangible products like compounds, drugs or devices as well as intangible products or “know-how.” In this course students will apply material lear ned in Part 1 to team project work on scientific inventionsProfessional Discovery to Market I provides the foundational content for the project work in Professional Discovery to Market II. As a result of this course students should be able to assess the feasibility of commercializing a scientific discovery, define the process required to bring it to market and recommend the best strategy to do so.557.710 Clinical Practice ImprovementThis course teaches healthcare providers techniques for achieving better clinical outcomes at lower costs including techniques of clinical practice improvement (CPI). CPI is a systematic method to determine optimal care by linking relevant measures of patient characteristics, processes, and outcomes. The system is designed to generate valid statistical inferences about the operational elements of the process of clinical care. By usingconsensus combined with objective feedback, CPI eliminates inappropriate treatment variation for well-defined groups of comparable patients. In short, CPI is the rigorous application of the scientific method to the day-to- day practice of medicine.citi863.610.81The Wire: Business Solutions to Urban Economic, Social and Public Health Issues The Wire, an internationally known and critically acclaimed television show, depicts the war on drugs and the economic decline of a once thriving city in contemporary times, examining the institutions and actors in Dickensian fashion. The police, media, schools and elected officials, along with urban residents central to the story, illuminate problems and potential solutions to the ills that plague many modern “rust belt” USA. Students identify problems and develop solutions as inspired by The Wire, and complete feasibility analyses of the proposed policy, program, institution or entrepreneurial solution. (2 credits)
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