HCMI 3240: Introduction to Health Care Management
Fall 2024 TR 2:00-3:15 MCHU 202
Instructor: Shane Murphy; Email: shane@uconn.edu; Website: https://shane-murphy.uconn.edu; Office: BUSN 460
Office Hours: TBD and by appointment
Materials including the syllabus can be found on HuskyCT
On this page you can find a calendar which includes links to materials from each week and lists the weeks readings. Homework assignments are to do a reading response for one of the readings and are listed on HuskyCT. Material about the midterm, final, and paper are also on HuskyCT.
Optional textbook: Olden, Peter C. and Erwin, Cathleen O. Management of Healthcare Organizations, An Introduction (I’m using 4th Edition, 2023)
Course Schedule:
(for off campus access, you may need to use the UConn VPN)
August 27: Landscape of health in the US (slides)
• Fuchs, Victor R. “Major trends in the US health economy since 1950.” New England Journal of Medicine 366, no. 11 (2012): 973-977.
• (optional) Grossman, Michael. “The demand for health, 30 years later: a very personal retrospective and prospective reflection.” Journal of health economics 23, no. 4 (2004): 629-636.
• (optional) Dieleman, Joseph L., et al. “US spending on personal health care and public health, 1996-2013.” Jama 316.24 (2016): 2627-2646.
• (optional) Mokdad, Ali H., Katherine Ballestros, Michelle Echko, Scott Glenn, Helen E. Olsen, Erin Mullany, Alex Lee et al. “The state of US health, 1990-2016: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors among US states.” Jama 319, no. 14 (2018): 1444-1472.
• (optional) Alan Krueger | Keynote 3 | Subjective Well Being Over The Life Course
August 29: Future of health care management (slides)
September 3: Complexity in healthcare (slides)
September 5: BS and ethics in healthcare (slides)
September 10: BS, Ethics, AI, and trilemmas (<a href="https://shane-murphy.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2548/2024/09/HCMI-3240-Week-3-Slides.pptx)
September 12: HealthCare Organizational Structure (slides)
September 17: More on Hospitals (slides)
September 19: Public Health Management (slides)
September 24: Operations Management (slides)
September 27: Operations Management (slides)
October 1: Operations Management (slides)
October 3: Operations Management (slides)
October 8: Alternative Perspectives on JIT/Lean Manufacturing (slides)
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December 2: