[Course Description]
Health
Service Management * 380110*
At the
end of this course the students will have the knowledge of the following the
emergence and development of health services management in the hospitals and the
other health, health care medical treatment and illness. Also they will have a
good idea concerning the components, characters tics of the health system the
increasing concern in the health services management as a profession the
comprehensive primary health care and the health system in Jordan.
Principles of Health
Management/ Obligatory/ prerequisite0380101:
The
course explains the managerial process in the health services system, which
include the function, concepts, and managerial roles of the health. It
discusses also the environment in which the health manger work, and the forces
affecting the environment such as financing, controls, movement legislations,
ethical, legal, and technological considerations, the modern organizational
models, including multi-hospital systems, resource utilization and control,
risk management, quality assurance, potential trends in health services in the
light of rapidly accelerating environmental changes.
The Hospital Management *
380430*
At the end
of this course the students will have a good idea about the following subject:
the historical development of hospitals, the importance of hospitals and their
role in the social and economic development in societies the need for effective
hospital management the essential functions of hospitals the hospital planning
and organizing and the management of medical paramedical and administrative
services or units in the hospitals.
The health legislations *
380341*
At the
end of this course, the students will have a good knowledge on the following:
the concept of the law the historical development of the health legislations
and the medical liability, the types of accountability of the hospitals
concerning their physicians malpractices the Jordanian
public health law the Jordanian physicians law, and other health staff laws.
Demography and
biostatistics (population and vital statistics) * 380108*
The
focus of this course will be on the following: fields the concept of the
population science, the sources of population data, the controlling factors of
the population growth, the fertility and the population structure the vital
statistics, the population polices in some countries, and the population case
or problem through the history.
The financial management
in health organizations *380440*
A course covering institutions and applications in health
care finance. Topics include the economics
of insurance and the healthcare markets; third party reimbursement with
emphasis on Medicare prospective pricing and Medicare physician reimbursement;
strategic financial planning, operational budgeting, and variance analysis;
cost of capital and capital structure decisions; and alternative costing
methods.
Health information system
*380412*
This
course will cover the following: the information concept, the information
types, its sources, its confidentiality, and its methods of collection, the
relation ship between the managements functions and the information, the
concept of the system, the administrative information systems definition and
emergence and its types, characteristics, and positives, the administrative
information upgrading, the administrative and organizational results by
adopting the information’s systems in thy organization, and some enveloped
information’s systems in practice.
Comprehensive health
quality management * 380342*
At the
end of this course, the students will know the importance of the Comprehensive
health quality management as a scientific approach and an effective method for
the problems solving and the promotion of the society health level. Therefore
the students will be introduced to the basic and the concepts of quality
management, include other matters, such as, the back ground of quality, its
importance, nature, and some quality management systems.
The health service
marketing *380460*
This
course aims to introduce the following subjects and matters to participants:
the concept of health service marketing, its characteristics that distinguish
it from other service or products, health service information systems and its
function to provide administration information to facilitate decision-making,
the marketing mix as the essence of the marketing, the problems that health
organization fact and suggested solutions.
Finally, the illustrated of health organization team model.
Health
Planning * 380420 *
The course discusses the
health planning in terms of types, level, scope, methods and procedures, and
their applications to health care. Needs assessment, goals
and objective settings, in addition to how health institutions secure and
manage scarce of productive resources to rise up the heath status. It
presents also the methods of evaluating health plans, as well as the
importance, role, and applications of health information in health planning.
Computer
Skills in Health Orgs.
*380450*
It discusses the
application of all health services such as medical care, medical records,
health services facilities statistics and indicators, both technical and
managerial in different software. Computerized health information system will
be introduced, and its application on personnel management, accounting and
finance, material and drug administration, engineering and maintenance,
paramedical activities, admitting and discharge planning, organizing waiting
lists for outpatient services, scheduling surgical operations, and other
medical and managerial services.
Drugs and their uses/
obligatory/ prerequisite *0380201*:
It
discusses the importance of drugs in human health, and their role in the care and
prevention of diseases. It includes also the classification of drugs, the
common drug items, the medical indications and their use, for their sides effects, the economical and managerial aspects
concerning the provision of drugs in hospitals as well as some important
business related matters. This is besides to the quality and safety
considerations in the use of drugs, the control of use, the cost and some of
the managerial issues related to the hospital pharmacy.
Medical Records and
Information System/ Obligator/ Prerequisite *0380411* :
It
includes the medical record as a
subsystem within the supra hospital system, and its relations with other
hospital subsystems, the importance of the medical records in the management of
patient care process and other hospital activities both technical and
managerial, organizing the medical records department, the content of the
record, the basic and special medical forms, important data and information
both medical and managerial, indexing, numbering, filing, and classification
systems, the fields in which modern information technology can be used, and
computer applications in medical records management.
Health information system/
elective/ prerequisite *0380412*:
This course provides the future healthcare
administrator with background and skills related to: 1) management oversight of
the design, acquisition, installation, and operation of information systems in
a healthcare setting; and 2) productive utilization of information for
strategic planning, executive decision-making, and managerial control. Specific
topics include: features and components which comprise an integrated health
information system; computer and computer network terminology and concepts;
managerial issues associated with information system planning, acquisition,
implementation and operation; the systems analysis process applied to the
evaluation of information technology and the recommendation of appropriate
information technology enhancements and the value of information as an asset in
managerial decision-making and control.
The
course discusses all types of services and accommodations provided for the
patients during their hospitalization period. The services include admission
and discharges.