2006-2008 HBU Catalog - Houston Baptist University

HADM 6340 Health Care Financial ManagementPrerequisites: ACCT 5360, FINA 6330This course is designed to engage students in discussions regarding the financialenvironment of health care organizations. Promotes the ability to critically analyzedata in the financial statements; compute and evaluate ratios such as cost of capitaland working capital; and how the data and ratios relate to planning, basic valuation,and capital budgeting decisions. It integrates accounting principles and financialmanagement. The course will build upon material in finance and will focus on theuniqueness of healthcare finance such as the various reimbursement schemes whichinclude Medicare/Medicaid. Use of a financial calculator is essential for maximumbenefit from the course.HADM 6345 Management of Health Care Information SystemsPrerequisites: ACCT 5360, FINA 6330, MGMT 5360Provides an overview of healthcare information systems, from both a technical anda managerial point of view. Examines the major technologies employed. Presents themost important applications. Discusses major managerial issues such as, planning,systems development, budgeting, balanced score card, and data management.HADM 6348 Quality Management & Performance Evaluation in Health CarePrerequisites: ACCT 5360, FINA 6330, MGMT 5360This course is designed to introduce basic concepts, theories and applications ofquality management, which includes defining, monitoring, evaluating and improvingquality in health care. Another focus is to guide students to learn the continuousquality improvement/total quality management (CQI/TQM) models and approaches toassessing the outcomes of medical care for improvement. Students will further learnto perform functions within this context by learning tools for quality improvement.Studying these tools, analyzing examples using them, and problem-solving relatedto outcomes research will provide students with a basis for developing methods tocontribute to improving medical care outcomes. This course will also cover the topicsregarding the importance of outcome research and its applications.HADM 6350, Epidemiology for Health CareAnalyzes the nature, cause, control, and determinants of frequency and distributionof disease, disability, and death in human populations. Applies disease transmissionand disease prevention concepts to individuals, families, aggregates, communities,and societies (IFACS), including vulnerable and indigent populations. Assesses theresearch and health policy support for practice guidelines and standards. Studentsshould be able to synthesize vital statistics, health status indicators, and mortality/morbidity statistics to the health care needs of IFACS. Applies concepts of researchmethods, study design, and analytic analysis to case studies.HADM 6352, Applied Research in Health CareExamines techniques for assessing and effectively employing health research processes,outcome measurements, process/outcome relationship, and methods of processimprovement in health organizations. Prepare students to demonstrate proficiencyin constructing programs with measurable outcomes; controlling measurement andextraneous errors, sampling techniques and controlling sampling error; matching testsand designs and communicating assessment results and making program decisions.Promotes the development of abilities to critically evaluate the methodological adequacyof research studies in the areas of descriptive and analytic program evaluation andhealth-related survey research.Courses / 285