HSPM 7338 - Contemporary Issues in Healthcare (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course examines operational issues in health care management. Topics include systems analysis, continuous quality improvement and re-engineering, demand forecasting, facility location and design models, decision analysis techniques, linear programming, queuing and waiting models, inventory control models, and statistical quality control. The goal is to instill an understanding of the language, applications, and limitations of quantitative models with regard to decision making and problem solving in health care organizations.

Restriction(s): NO Undergraduate Level Students