DNP Population Health & Systems Leadership curriculum

BIME 530: Introduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics

3 credits

Introduces biomedical and health informatics concepts, theories and applications, including the evolution and future direction of information flow in health care settings.

HIHIM 508: Health Information Management Systems and Leadership

3 credits

Provides a framework for health informatics and health information management practice, including information governance, patient records and enterprise business functions.

Enrollment restriction: Restricted to first-year MHIHIM students. Direct questions to mhihim@uw.edu.

HIHIM 509: Introduction to Health Informatics

3 credits

Introduces health information technology and its role across health care delivery systems.

Enrollment restriction: Restricted to first-year MHIHIM students. Direct questions to mhihim@uw.edu.

HSMGMT 523: Informatics in Healthcare Management

3 credits

Introduces biomedical information and knowledge management, health care applications of informatics and leadership considerations in implementing information technology.

Enrollment restriction: Restricted to second-year MHA students. Direct questions to mhap@uw.edu or 206.543.8778.

NMETH 523: Project Management and System Analysis for Health Informatics

3 credits

Application of methods of inquiry to develop a scholarly proposal through faculty-guided individual composition. Students select the project topic and complete the conceptual phase of proposal development to fulfill their project plan.

NMETH 527: Introduction to Clinical Informatics

3 credits

Overview of the history, current efforts and future challenges in designing, developing and implementing information and communication technologies for health care. Examines how these technologies support the Quadruple Aim.

NURS 524: Conceptual Foundations for Healthcare Systems: Organizational Structure and Effectiveness

4 credits

Examines the health care delivery system and systems of care, including the evolution and structure of organized health care in the United States, organizational effectiveness, care systems and information technology.

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

HSERV 509/BIME 533: Public Health and Informatics

3 credits

Introduction to public health informatics, including key public health informatics issues and applications and evaluation of a public health information system.

Prerequisite: Instructor approval.

HSMGMT 531: Systems Modeling Frameworks for Healthcare

3 credits

Examines methodologies for strategic decision-making in health care systems, including resource dependencies, optimization models, capacity planning and policy analysis.

Enrollment restriction: Restricted to first-year Executive MHA students. Direct questions to mhap@uw.edu or 206.543.8778.

NMETH 524: Healthcare Information Systems and the Electronic Health Records

3 credits

Examines health care informatics issues, including patient safety, information technology infrastructure, clinical systems, electronic health records and informatics change management.

Enrollment restriction: CIPCT program; email uwcipct@uw.edu for an add code.

NMETH 528: Computing Fundamentals for Health Professionals

3 credits

Survey of applied computing concepts, including computer algorithms, operating systems, networking, databases, digital privacy and security, applied programming principles and data science opportunities and pitfalls in health care.

BIME 535: Clinical Care and Informatics

3 credits

Explores the ways information technology affects health care delivery system design and delivery, including current and future research questions, trends, opportunities and challenges.

BIME 554: Biomedical Information Interactions and Design

4 credits

Introduces theoretical frameworks and research methods for studying human-information interactions and designing biomedical information systems around users’ information needs.

HSMGMT 531: Systems Modeling Frameworks for Healthcare

3 credits

Examines methodologies for strategic decision-making in health care systems, including resource dependencies, optimization models, capacity planning and policy analysis.

Enrollment restriction: Restricted to first-year Executive MHA students. Direct questions to mhap@uw.edu or 206.543.8778.

NMETH 526: Patient-Centered Technologies

3 credits

Examines current and emerging consumer-focused eHealth technologies, human-technology interaction and the ethical implications of these tools, including health disparities.

Enrollment restriction: CIPCT program; email uwcipct@uw.edu for an add code.

ACCTG 500: Financial Accounting

4 credits

Introduces concepts and procedures used to prepare and interpret financial information for investors and other decision-makers.

Enrollment restriction: Foster MBA students only.

ACCTG 502: Financial Reporting and Analysis

4 credits

Builds understanding of financial information and its use in management decisions.

Enrollment restriction: Foster MBA students only. Prerequisites: ACCTG 500 and ACCTG 501.

HIHIM 508: Health Information Management Systems and Leadership

3 credits

Provides a framework for health informatics and health information management practice, including information governance, patient records and enterprise business functions.

HSMGMT 510: Organizational Behavior

1–3 credits

Applies organizational behavior theory to factors affecting employee behavior, performance and job satisfaction in health care organizations.

Enrollment restriction: Restricted to first-year MHIHIM students. Direct questions to mhihim@uw.edu. Course meets in the GIX Building in Bellevue.

HSMGMT 562: Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations

4 credits

Examines goals, strategy, organizational structure, decision-making and change in health care organizations.

Prerequisites: HSERV 511 or HSMGMT 560. Enrollment restriction: Restricted to first-year MHA students. Direct questions to mhap@uw.edu or 206.543.8778.

MGMT 500: Management and Leadership

4 credits

Examines behavioral aspects of management with an emphasis on leadership, motivation and decision-making. Topics may include communication, conflict management, group dynamics and organizational change.

MGMT 501: Leading Teams and Organizations

4 credits

Introduces practical frameworks, models and methods for strengthening human capital and organizational performance.

PUBPOL 516: Economics for Policy Analysis and Management I

4 credits

Applies microeconomics to policy analysis, including supply and demand, economic efficiency, consumer choice and the effects of public policy on decision-making.

Enrollment restriction: Open only to MPA students.

PUBPOL 522: Financial Management and Budgeting

4 credits

Introduction to financial and management accounting and public and nonprofit budgeting systems. Covers tools and techniques for budget analysis and the use of financial information in managerial decision-making.

PUBPOL 531: Development Management and Governance

4 credits

Examines governance systems, public policy implementation and management challenges in international development.

PUBPOL 550: Managing Nonprofit and Philanthropic Organizations

4 credits

Examines nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, including governance, leadership, cross-sector relationships, revenue streams, fundraising and policy advocacy.

PUBPOL 557: Financial Modeling for the Public Sector

4 credits

Covers public-sector financial modeling, including revenue forecasting, pro forma financial statements, life-cycle cost analysis, portfolio valuation, risk management and debt financing.

SOC W 551: Human Resource Management in the Human Services

3 credits

Examines approaches to designing supportive workplaces and managing diverse, satisfied and high-performing human service staffs.

B ECON 510: Microeconomics for Managers

4 credits

Provides an understanding of how markets work and introduces optimal strategies for managers.

GH 522: Project Management in Global Health

3 credits

Covers project management fundamentals, including needs assessments, planning and implementation documents, resource management, project transitions, monitoring and evaluation.

BUS AN 500: Finance and Accounting

3 credits

Provides a broad introduction to using financial information to make organizational decisions, with an emphasis on topics useful to managers in business analytics roles.

HIHIM 598: Project Management

3 credits

Focuses on leadership readiness, informatics and information governance challenges, project management resources, communication strategies and organizational change.

Enrollment restriction: Restricted to students in the Executive MHA first-year program and MHIHIM. Direct questions to mhap@uw.edu or 206.543.8778.

HSERV 572: Planning, Advocacy and Leadership Skills

4 credits

Builds skills in health program and policy planning, advocacy, evaluation and leadership through interdisciplinary, applied work with real-world public health problems.

Prerequisite: Graduate student.