{"id":65759,"date":"2016-03-22T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=65759"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:52:30","slug":"healthcare-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/sph\/programs\/mph\/healthcare-management\/","title":{"rendered":"MPH Functional Certificate: Healthcare Management (CAHME-accredited*)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The challenges in organizing healthcare delivery systems to improve patient care quality and achieve population-level access and equity while controlling costs have never been greater. SPH\u2019s practice-based program in healthcare management provides graduates crucial analytical and leadership competencies to tackle these challenges. Graduates can analyze the organization, financing, and delivery of healthcare; analyze effects of healthcare policy; apply project management and quality improvement tools; and lead individuals and teams to improve care delivery.<\/p>\n

Upon completion of the MPH with the 28-unit certificate in Healthcare Management, graduates excel in five key areas:<\/p>\n

Health Care System Analysis<\/h3>
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  • Demonstrate an understanding of the factors that shape the US healthcare system.<\/li>\n
  • Analyze the structures, processes, and outcomes observed in the organization, function, delivery, and financing of health services in the US.<\/li>\n
  • Apply economic and financial analysis to understand the causes of high costs of healthcare services in the US.<\/li>\n
  • Analyze strategic alternatives using policy, market, and organizational analyses to develop forward-looking recommendations.<\/li>\n
  • Compare the organization, delivery, and financing of the US healthcare system to systems in other nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Health Policy Analysis<\/h3>
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    • Analyze how competing stakeholder interests shape the development and implementation of health policies.<\/li>\n
    • Assess how health policies influence the allocation, financing, and delivery of healthcare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Improvement and Implementation<\/h3>
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      • Translate visions and strategies into specific goals and implementation plans with deliverables, timelines, and budgets.<\/li>\n
      • Apply planning\/management tools and techniques to achieve successful project completion.<\/li>\n
      • Apply operations\/financial concepts and data to pursue evidence-based approaches to care delivery.<\/li>\n
      • Critically appraise and synthesize healthcare quality data to use in pursuit of quality improvement.<\/li>\n
      • Identify roles and applications of health information and digital systems to optimize healthcare delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Leadership<\/h3>
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        • Collaborate in teams to set clear goals and expectations, assess the contributions of others, and provide clear developmental feedback.<\/li>\n
        • Improve one\u2019s own performance based on feedback from others.<\/li>\n
        • Communicate mission, vision, goals, and recommended courses of action.<\/li>\n
        • Apply problem-solving and negotiation principles to understand conflicts in interpersonal, organizational, and political contexts, and develop viable solutions.<\/li>\n
        • Analyze organizational dynamics and relationships in order to improve strategies.<\/li>\n
        • Apply change management principles at the individual and organizational levels.<\/li>\n
        • Improve one\u2019s understanding of how issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial and social justice influence the management of healthcare organizations and the health of patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          Professionalism<\/h3>
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          • Persuasively and clearly communicate in formal and informal situations, using technology to support the presentation of ideas and data.<\/li>\n
          • Prepare communications in a clear, logical, and effective manner in a variety of formats (emails, policy briefs, memos, research papers).<\/li>\n
          • Develop strategies for exploring career options and accurately seeing one\u2019s own strengths and development needs.<\/li>\n
          • Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of establishing and sustaining professional networks.<\/li>\n
          • Apply ethical guidelines for sound professional practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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            Course Requirements<\/h3>\n
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            • SPH GH 854 Data to Dashboards: Building Excel Skills to Support Health Program Decisions (2 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 714 Health Care Management as a Profession (0 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 734 Principles and Practices in Non-Profit Healthcare Accounting (4 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 735 Healthcare Finance: How Policy-makers and Managers Can Use Money as a Tool to Improve Health Care (4 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 736 Human Resource Management in Public Health (4 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 755 Healthcare Delivery Systems: Issues and Innovations (4 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 804 Digital Disruption in Health: The Effects of Health Information Technologies on Policies, Delivery, Patient Engagement, and Health Outcomes (2 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 827 Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations (4 units)<\/li>\n
            • SPH PM 832 Operations Management in Healthcare (4 units) or<\/strong> PM 835 Lean Management in Healthcare (4 units)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Integrative Learning Experience<\/h4>\n

              The ILE for the Healthcare Management certificate is designed to be completed during a student\u2019s last term in the program, and is focused on evidence-based management, requiring that students apply current research findings in the field of healthcare management to an applied healthcare delivery problem or question.<\/p>\n

              *Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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