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          MHA 5140 Financial Accounting (1.5 units)

          Introduction to the foundations of financial accounting including theoretical aspects, the principles of financial reporting and preparation of financial statements and accounting for inventory and capital assets. Creation and interpretation of financial performance measurements.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5140 and MHA 5141 cannot be combined for credit with MBA 5340 or with MBA 5140 and MBA 5141.

          MHA 5141 Managerial Accounting (1.5 units)

          Introduction to the preparation and use of accounting information to support managerial decision making. Topics include product and process costing and activity based costing and management.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5140 and MHA 5141 cannot be combined for credit with MBA 5340 or with MBA 5140 and MBA 5141.

          MHA 5150 Managing Finance in Health Systems (3 units)

          Financial planning and interpretation of financial statements and metrics, managing budgets and understanding funding models in health systems.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5158 Digital Health Innovation & Transformation (3 units)

          Principles of health informatics, EHR, telehealth, mobile health, artificial intelligence, innovation processes, planning and implementing technological solutions.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5300 Data-Driven Decision-Making in Health Systems (3 units)

          Critical thinking, evidence-based decision-making, data analysis, statistical reasoning and inference, and ethical use of data.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5330 Human Resource Management in Health Care (3 units)

          Focus on the major issues unique to effective health human resources management. Measuring needs and planning for the current and future supply of human resources. Recruitment, retention and development strategies to meet changing workforce conditions. Understanding the unique regulatory environments where professions are regulated by provincial laws and professional colleges. Labor relation issues and approaches in unionized environment. Funding, team work and inter-professional practice, scope of practice issues and organizational design. Interactions of organizational and professional accreditation mechanisms (such as professional colleges and associations, and accreditation bodies).

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5335 People management in Health Systems (3 units)

          Working with partnerered health providers, develop strategic workforce plans, HHR optimization and analytics, inclusive recruitment and retention, as well as talent development.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5345 Health Leadership and Change Management (3 units)

          The course will be guided by the CCHL’s LEAD Framework to help students translate leadership, governance, and accountability principles into practice when working with hybrid teams, dyads, remote employees, and across organizational boundaries.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 5701 Gestion et entrepreneuriat en santé (3 crédits)

          Ce cours initie les professionnels de la santé à la gestion et à l’entrepreneuriat dans un contexte de soins en évolution. Axé sur la planification stratégique, le leadership, la gestion des ressources humaines, la finance, le marketing et l’innovation, il leur permet de développer un esprit entrepreneurial et des compétences pratiques à travers études de cas et projets appliqués.

          Volet : Cours magistral

          MHA 6203 Program Evaluation (1.5 units)

          Types of program evaluation, evaluation design, reporting of results to different stakeholders, critical appraisal of evaluation research and reports.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6213 Directed Readings in Health Care Management (3 units)

          Personal definition, investigation and synthesis of broadly based literature on a topic from a list prepared in advance by the MHA faculty. Bi-weekly progress reports submitted by e-mail or in person. Presentation of the report at a seminar organized by a supervisor.

          Course Component: Research

          Prerequisites: must have completed the common core and at least 10.5 MHA units.

          MHA 6250 Health Care Finance (1.5 units)

          Overview of financial concepts, including time-value of money analysis, risk and rate of return, bond and equity pricing, and financial planning. Financial decision-making and risk assessment tools in administrative decisions within the unique context of health care organizations.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6260 Project Planning and Management (1.5 units)

          Introduction to program planning and management of health management projects. Program planning and management methods including management of a project throughout its life cycle (identification, design, planning, realization and close-out).

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6260 cannot be combined for credit with ADM 6260.

          MHA 6266 Managing Projects in Complex Health Systems (3 units)

          Project scope definition, resource planning, risk management, and change management frameworks.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6271 Application of Information Technology in Health Care (1.5 units)

          Presents an overview of timely topics related to the application of information technologies (IT) in health care, and prepares students to better understand and work with IT in the current healthcare environment. The course discusses research and evidence on contemporary health IT solutions and their role in improving, transforming and supporting the delivery of health care, as well as the decisions and challenges that managers face when considering the implementation of these new technologies.

          Course Component: Lecture

          Prerequisite: MHA 6370

          MHA 6301 Epidemiology and Population Health (3 units)

          Understanding of the principles of epidemiology and research designs in the health related fields, and the ability to critically evaluate clinical, epidemiological, and health care management evidence in support of decision-making. Topics include: determining research designs most appropriate to specific research conditions; overview of epidemiologic approaches; important measures; issues related to validity, confounding effect, selection bias, misclassification bias, and effect modification; and general concepts related to population health.

          Course Component: Lecture

          Prerequisite: MBA 5300 or MHA 5300

          MHA 6303 Epidemiology & Population Health (1.5 units)

          Population health data, evaluating interventions, distribution and determinants of health-related events, such as disease outbreaks and Health inequities.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6312 Strategy, Governance, and Ethics (3 units)

          Strategic thinking, board governance, stakeholder management, ethical decision-making and risk management.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6315 Quality and Performance Management in Health Care (3 units)

          Overview of approaches and tools used for managing, evaluating, and promoting quality in health care. Emphasizes the importance of context and stakeholder engagement in quality improvement and performance management initiatives. Topics include: important key theories and concepts related to quality; patient safety measures and practices; performance management; evidence-based management; and quality improvement strategies.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6316 Quality and Performance Management (3 units)

          Principles of quality and safety, continuous improvement models, performance indicators, evaluation of quality of care and benchmarking.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6351 Health Economics (3 units)

          An economists’ perspective illuminating the systems behavior of Health-Care. Such insights inform strategies for managing/improving Health-care. The survey course introduces key concepts from economics (e.g., micro-economics, trade-offs, opportunity costs, efficiency, equity) that are pivotal to this illumination. The unique attributes of health-care (e.g., uncertainty of demand and information asymmetry) and the incentives (some perverse) that ensue are discussed. Indices of population health impact and their links to health economic valuation are covered, including cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6356 Health Economics (3 units)

          Demand and supply of health care, economic evaluation, funding models, economics of population health and interpreting policy trade-offs.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6360 Comparative Health Policy and Systems (3 units)

          Structure, governance and performance of the Canadian health care system in comparision with systems in other countries. History of health care in medicare, funding mechanisms, delivery models and global comparisons.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6361 Organizational Behaviour in Health Systems (3 units)

          Leadership theories, emotional intelligence, diversity and inclusion, motivation, group dynamics, stress management, power, negotiation, and conflict resolution.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6370 Health Informatics (3 units)

          Overview of current developments, issues and challenges in the emerging field of health informatics, with an emphasis on the role it plays in health care transformation initiatives. Historical development and basic foundations of health informatics including theoretical, methodological and ethical/legal underpinnings will be studied. Management implications of health informatics.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6380 Analytics for Health Systems (3 units)

          Machine learning, optimization, queuing theory and simulations. Transforming data into actionable insights.

          Course Component: Lecture

          MHA 6990 Residency and Field Project (6 crédits / 6 units)

          In this four-month in-person residency, students gain executive-level experience in a health organization and complete a mandatory Field Project addressing a relevant health system issue under faculty and field supervision.

          Volet / Course Component: Recherche / Research

          MHA 6996 Health Consulting Project (3 crédits / 3 units)

          Final consulting project where students apply what they have learned in the classroom to a health system management project.

          Volet / Course Component: Recherche / Research

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