HCMI 3240: Introduction to Health Care Management
Spring 2025 MW 2:00-3:15 ITE 336
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)
January 22: 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

Tentative future schedule