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• HCAM 230: US Healthcare Systems

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course offers an overview of the U.S. healthcare delivery system and challenges that confront the industry. It examines legal, technological, economic, political, ethical, and social forces that impact the healthcare industry. Students will learn about the delivery of healthcare services in various settings, as well as the role of government, professional agencies, and other industry related organizations. The allocation of scarce healthcare resources is examined through the lenses of social awareness, civic responsibility, and quasi-market forces. This course also equips students to become informed healthcare consumers and introduces them to healthcare employment opportunities.
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• HCAM 250: Medical Terminology for Healthcare Administrators

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of medical language. Emphasis is placed on basic medical word construction and language derivation related to health care.
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• HCAM 265: Introduction to Insurance and Managed Care

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines Managed Care Organizations, insurance plans, Consumer Directed Health Care plans, and Health Care Exchanges. Students will explore the influence of managed health care and the various forms of health care insurance on the organization and delivery of health services in the United States are explored.
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• HCAM 275: Health Care Legal & Ethical Foundations

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course connects theoretical foundations of ethics with practical legal issues facing health care leaders. The course will define the role of the health care provider, payer, consumers, delivery systems, and regulatory bodies in addressing challenges presented by health care law and ethics.
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• HCAM 290: Experimental

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.
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• HCAM 295: Health Care Workshop

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format and on a timely topic.
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• HCAM 298: Selected Topics

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A Selected Topics course is a normal, departmental offering which is directly related to the discipline, but because of its specialized nature, may not be able to be offered on a yearly basis by the department.
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• HCAM 300: Healthcare Systems: Global Perspectives and Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines health care systems from other countries in contrast to the United States system of health care. Students will be introduced to larger global perspectives about healthcare systems. Comparisons of healthcare systems' infrastructures, finance systems, level of government involvement, and key metrics of health outcomes will be discussed along with the interconnected socio-political issues across diverse populations.
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• HCAM 305: Fundamentals of Healthcare Quality and Safety

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Through this course, students will identify drivers of value in health care and identify major challenges to value-based care. Students will examine various healthcare value-based reimbursement programs and develop leadership strategies to improve quality and reduce costs in health care.
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• HCAM 332: US Health Care Policy

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides an overview of US health care policy in the postwar period. The course will examine the problems of health care costs, access, and quality in depth, consider alternative approaches to health care reform and use a comparative method to examine the health policies of other advanced industrialized countries. In addition, the course aims to introduce students to health policy analysis as an applied social science discipline.
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