*Core Requirement for M.S. degree
Prerequisites: None

*ECS 115: Strategic and Financial Management of Health Care Organizations
Strategic and Financial Management of Health Care Organizations offers students the opportunity to learn about and practice strategic and financial management as those disciplines apply to health care organizations. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand financial accounting, cost accounting, financial analysis, financial strategy, organizational structure, strategic planning, environmental analysis, and marketing. Students will be able to apply financial techniques to strategic analysis of the health care environment, cost reduction in health care and to organizational decision making. The ability to apply that knowledge will be reinforced through projects, casework and homework problems. The course integrates textbooks, cases, and projects. The first half of the course focuses on financial analysis; the second half of the course focuses on strategy. There will be in-class midterm and final exams.

Spring term; one credit; (HP, P, LP, NC)
Elective
Prerequisites: ECS 100; no economics preparation assumed

*ECS 117: Continual Improvement of Healthcare: An Overview
This course offers participants the opportunity to discover and preview the knowledge, methods, and skills necessary to effect the continual improvement of the quality and value of health care. Participants will be offered an opportunity to connect that knowledge, and those methods and skills, to their personal life and work. This course includes a significant amount of weekly pre-class preparation.
Fall term; one credit; (HP, P, LP, NC)
*Core Requirement
Prerequisites: None

*ECS 124: Continually Improving the Health and the Value of Health Care for a Panel of Patients: Practicum in Health Care Decision Making and Improvement
Creates an opportunity for students to study and apply the principles and concepts learned in ECS 117, The Continual Improvement of Health Care: An Overview, to the work of managing the health and value of health care for a defined population of patients. Participants will work in partnership with selected managed care settings throughout the United States. Specifically, this course will offer participants an opportunity to
o identify the processes involved in managing a panel of patients.
o learn the knowledge and skills providers need to manage panels and provide optimal patient care.
o identify approaches for taking costs out of the care while maintaining or improving quality and enhancing customer satisfaction.