Health Care Management

Program Description
Books
Journals
Reference Books
Internet Sites

Health Care Management Major (Pending Approval)

The rapidly changing health care industry is the nation's second largest employer and the demand for qualified managers in health care and health product organizations is increasing. The Health Care Management major focuses on the management, financing, and economics of the health services sector, preparing students for careers in health care management or policy, clinical medicine, pharmaceutical services, nursing, or dentistry.

In response to the high demand for skilled managers and policy makers, the Health Care Management major builds upon the established strength of the academic departments and existing courses in the Labovitz School of Business and Economics and provides, in addition, a series of courses that familiarize the student with unique aspects and issues of the health care industry. An interdisciplinary faculty based in the Labovitz School of Business and Economics, together with adjunct faculty from area health organizations, prepare students majoring in health care management to respond to the many critical problems now faced by hospitals, government agencies, group practices, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, insurance and managed care organizations, and consulting firms. The health care management major also provides the fundamental education and experience necessary for students interested in obtaining a graduate degree in health administration.

Students will gain a solid foundation of knowledge regarding the health care industry along with practical skills to apply that knowledge. The health care management major integrates academic and professional development through collaborative research and consulting projects among students, faculty, and the health care community, an internship program, and presentations from professionals employed in the health care industry.

The health care management major includes study in the following: managed care, market structure, and health care delivery; health care management; economics of health care; health policy analysis; health care marketing; financial management of health institutions; legal aspects of health care; comparative health care systems; management and economic issues of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry; and health care entrepreneurship.

The Health Care Management major will be accepting students and offering courses in the fall of 2005. You can learn more about degree requirements and course descriptions for the health care management major by visiting the Labovitz School of Business and Economics online at www.d.umn.edu/sbe/ and the UMD Catalog online at www.d.umn.edu/catalogs/. Or, contact Dr. Jennifer Schultz (phone: 218-726-6695, e-mail: jschultz@d.umn.edu) for more information. The LSBE Student Affairs Office, located in SBE 21, will have applications for the major and information on requirements for this major and the degree program.

Health Care Management Glossary

Books:

Ambulatory Care Management, Ross Jr., Austin (3rd ed.) - Library Book WX 205 R823a 1998

America's Health Rankings - Reference Book RA407.3 .N86 2005

America's Health: State health rankings - Reference Book RA407.3 .N86 2004

Applying Quality Management in Healthcare: A Process for Improvement, Kelly, Diane L. (2003) - NETLIBRARY Online Resource

Assessment Manual For Medical Groups, Medical Group Management Association (4th ed.) - Library Book W 92 S382a 2002 

Beyond Managed Care, Coddington, Dean C. (2000) - Library Book W 84 AA1 B567 2000

Building Rural Hospital Networks, Moscovice, Ira - Library Book WA 390 B932 1995

Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key issues in health services policy and management - Library Book RA395.A3 C478 2001

Code Greene: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing, Weinberg, Dana Beth (2004) - Library Book WX 150 W45 2003

Competitive Managed Care: The Emerging Health Care System - Library Book RA413.5.U5 C66 1997

Contemporary Health Policy - Library Book RA395.A3 L659 2001

Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care: Theory, Implementation, and Applications, McLaughlin, Curtis (2nd ed.) - Library Book W 84 AA1 C76 2004

Critical Issues in Rural Health, Johnson, Nan - Library Book WA 390 C934 2004

Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, Institute of Medicine (2001) - Library Book WA 540 AA1 C937 2001

Delivering Health Care in America - Library Book RA395.A3 S485 2004

The Economic Evolution of American Healthcare: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care, Dranove, David - Library Book W 130 AA1 D764e 2002 Regular Loan

Essentials of Health Care Finance - Library Book RA971.3 .C528 2003

Ethical Challenges in the Management of Health Information, Harman, Laurinda B. (1st ed.) - Library Book WX 173 E84 2001

Financial Management for Medical Groups, Pavlock, Ernest J. (2nd ed.) - Library Book W 80 P338f 2000

Financial Management of the Medical Practice, Reiboldt, J. Max (2nd ed.) - Library Book W 80 R347f 2002

Health and Health Care 2010: The Forecast, The Challenge, Amara, Roy (2nd ed.) - Library Book W 84 AA1 H356 2003

Health Care Administration - Planning, Implementing, and Managing Organized Delivery Systems, Wolper, Lawrence (4th ed.) - Library Book WX 150 H4337 2004

Healthcare Strategic Planning: Approaches for the 21st Century, Zuckerman, Alan M. (1998) - Library Book WX 150 Z938h 2005

Health Care Strategy for Uncertain Times - Library Book RA971 .H3865 2000

Health Care USA: Understanding its organization and Delivery - Library Book RA395.A3 S897 2004

Health Information Systems: Design Issues and Analytic Applications, McGlynn, Elizabeth A. (1999) - Library Book  W 26.55 I4 H4341 1998

The Health Information Technology Dictionary, Rognehaugh, Richard (1st ed.) - REF W26.5 R735h 1999

Health Network Innovations: How 20 communitites are improving their systems through collaboration - Library Book RA445 .H339 1997

The Heart of Long Term Care, Kane, Rosalie - Library Book WX 162 K16h 1998

Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the new medical marketplace - Library Book KF1183 .M67 2001

Introduction to Healthcare Delivery Organizations: Functions and Management, Sloane, Robert M. (4th ed.) - Book on Order

Introduction to U.S. Health Care: The structure of management and financing of the U.S. health care system - Library Book RA395.A3 I496 2007

Is Inequality Bad for Our Health, Daniels, Norm - Library Book WA 31 I73 2000

Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses, Institute of Medicine (2004) - NETLIBRARY Online Resource

Leadership in Healthcare: Values at the Top, Dye, Carson F. (2000) - Library Book W 84.1 D995L 2000

Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration - Library Book KF3821 P69 2004

Legal Aspects of Health Information Management, McWay, Dana C. (2nd ed.) -  Library Book KF3827.R4 M395 2003

Long-Term Care: Managing Across the Continuum, Pratt, John R. (2nd ed.) - Library Book WX 162 P915L 2004

The Managed Care Handbook, Kongstvedt, Peter R. (4th ed.) - Expected in the UMD Library Fall 2005

Managing Change in Healthcare: Innovative Solutions for People-based Organizations, Key, M.K. (1999) - Library Book W 84.1 M2665 1999

Managing Health Services Organizations, Rakich, Jonathan S. (4th ed.) - Library Book WX 150 L852m 2000

Managing health services organizations and systems, Longest, Beaufort B. (4th ed.) - Library Book WX 150 L852m 2000

Managing the Medical Practice, Reeves, Crystal S. (2nd ed.) - Library Book W 49 R332m 2002

Managing Quality of Care in a Cost-focused Environment, Goldfield and Nash - Library Book W 84 M266 1999

Medical Sociology, Cockerham, William C. (9th ed.) - Library Book WA 31 C666m 2004

Medicine and Social Justice, Rhodes - Library Book W 76 M4895 2002

Money-Driven Medicine: The real reason health care costs so much - Library Book RA410 .M34 2006

The Paperless Hospital: Healthcare in a Digital Age, (2002) - NETLIBRARY Online Resource

Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care, Institute of Medicine (2004) - NETLIBRARY Online Resource

Physician Performance Management, Micklitsch, Christine N. (1996) - Library Book W 84 AA1 M625p 1996

Problems in Health Care Law - Library Book KF3825 .M53 2006

Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health, Institute of Medicine - Library Reserve BK Two Hour Loan

Quantitative Analysis for Health Services Administration, Austin, Charles J. (1995) - Book on Order

Quick & Easy Medical Terminology (w/CD & cassette) - Reference Book R123 .L47 2003

Reengineering Health Care, Lenz, Paul (1998) - Library Book WA 525 R327 1998

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, Bolman, Lee G. (3rd ed.) - Library Book HD31 .B6135 2003

Reinsuring Health : why more middle-class people are uninsured and what government can do, Swartz, Katherine - Library Book HG9396

Rural Health in the United States, Ed. by Ricketts, III, Thomas C. (1999) - Library Book WA 390 R95145 1999

The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness - Library Book RA418.3.U6 W45 2003

Strategic Application of Information Technology in Healthcare Organizations: A Guide to Implementing Integrated Systems, Glaser, John (1999) - Library Book W 26.5 G548s 2002

The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance, Nyman, John - Library Book HG9396 .N96 2003 Regular Loan

Through the Patient's Eyes: Understanding and Promoting Patient-Centered Care, Gerteis et al. - Library Book W 84.7 T531 1993

Transformation of healthcare with information technologies, Ed. by Mariusz Duplaga, Krzysztof Zielinski, David Ingram (2004) - Library Book WA 26.5 T772 2004

To Do No Harm: ensuring patient safety in health care organizations, Morath and Turnball - Library Book WX 185 M831t 2005

To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health Systems, Institute of Medicine (1st ed.) - Library Book W 84 AA1 T627 2000

Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research, Robert Kane - Library Book W 84.1 U55 2006

Understanding Health System Change: Local markets, national trends - Library Book RA399.A3 U48 2001

The U.S. Health System: Origins and Functions - Library Book RA395.A3 R33 2002

Using the Electronic Health Record (w/CD) - Library Book R864 .E38 2008

The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization, Griffith, John R. (5th ed.) - Library Book W 84 AA1 G816w 2002 and NETLIBRARY Online Resource

Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, Cutler, David - NETLIBRARY Online Resource

Videos:

PBS Program: CEO Exchange: The Prognosis for Health Care: Is the Industry Alive and Well?, DVD 550

PBS Program: Remaking American Medicine, DVD on Order

Health Care Management Journals - Need Meberships to View

Key Reference Books

	"Access to Health Risk Behavior in the United States: A State-by-State Look at Teens and Adults details Americans' answers to questions about their health, all cross-tabulated by age, education, income, and sex—the demographic factors known to be related to health risk behavior. Some of the many topics covered in the book's section on adults include weight, women's health, physical activity, seat belt use, health insurance coverage, alcohol consumption, high blood pressure, flu shots, etc." REF WA 900 AA1 A169 2004 Example Page
	"A new addition to the American Consumers Series, and a more comprehensive replacement for the discontinued Best of Health, American Health: Demographics and Spending of Health Care Consumers focuses on health care consumers rather than industry statistics and reveals future market and policy needs. Presenting more than twice as many tables as contained in the popular Health, United States, American Health's 14 chapters examine addictions, aging, alternative medicine, attitudes toward health care, births, deaths, disability, diseases and conditions, health care coverage and cost, health care visits, hospital care, mental health, sexual attitudes and behavior, weight and exercise—the whole gamut of our physical and mental well-being." REF WA900 AA1 A445 2005 Example Page
	"Understanding who health care consumers are and how they are changing is vital to health insurance companies, hospitals, medical personnel, pharmaceutical companies, government policymakers, and many others. Best of Health: Demographics of Health Care Consumers is the first guide to how changes in the demographics of health care consumers are influencing health care wants and needs. Best of Health explores the intersection between important facets of the health care industry and the consumers of health care." REF WA 900 AA1 W452 2000 Example Page
*Booklist	"Providing more than 80 different statistics, this work contains health-care data for each of the nation's more than 3,000 counties and 329 metropolitan areas. The data are alphabetically organized by state and county with a separate section for metropolitan areas. The range of data is extensive: teenage pregnancy rates; deaths by types of cancer; numbers of hospital beds, optometry offices, and nursing homes; and more. The data also include demographics and vital statistics; the oldest data are for 1995, and some figures are as recent as 1998. Most of the information was drawn from the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the National Center for Health Statistics. An especially useful feature are state reference maps outlining counties and metropolitan areas. A CD accompanying the book provides an electronic text version. Compiled by an experienced health-care data analyst, this work, containing much material that has been either inaccessible or not previously published, provides for the first time extensive health-care profiles of every county and metropolitan area in the U.S. Its specialized nature and high cost might restrict its purchase to health science libraries or major research libraries."* REF W 84.1 H434x 1999 Example Page
	An in-depth look at market trends in the Health Care sector, with a focus on physicians and hospitals. Features seven key parts on market overview, market sectors, future outlook, demographics, treatments and specialist markets, alternative medicine, and other alternative methods. REF W 74 H4336 2001 Example Page
	"This newly revised, 13th edition of Health Care State Rankings features a huge compilation of easy-to-understand state health care statistics. Discover how your state ranks in teen birth rates, access to doctors, infant mortality, smoking, cancer cases, and so much more. In all, 500 tables of state health care comparisons are featured.  Health Care State Rankings 2005 makes it easy to monitor important health care trends in your state." REF WA 900 H434 2005 Example Page
	"28th edition. Presents national trends in health statistics. Major findings are presented in the highlights. Includes a chartbook on urban and rural health, trend tables, extensive appendixes, and an index." REF WA 900AA1 N277H 2004 Example Page
	"Statistical Record of Health and Medicine is a comprehensive compilation of national, state, and municipal health and medical statistics profiling health in the United States, particularly those conditions and cocnerns causing the average American to sacrifice 15 percent of his or her life to ill health. Data in SRHM are drawn from more than 380 government, academic, association, trade, technical, and media sources, thus providing broad subject coverage of health and medical fields." REF WA 16 S7973 1995 Example Page
	"The World Health Statistics Annual presents detailed statistical information intended to provide both national and global overviews of changing trends in health status and causes of death. Health statistics submitted to WHO by national health and statistical offices are compiled each year in order to help policy makers interpret changes over time and compare key indicators of health status in different countries." REF WA 900.1 W927x 1994 (Circulating Stacks) Example Page
	"Ten leading health and medical researchers share their online secrets With human lives depending on them, skilled medical researchers rank among the best online searchers in the world. In Super Searchers on Health & Medicine, medical librarians, clinical researchers, health information specialists, and physicians explain how they combine traditional information sources with the best of the Net to deliver just what the doctor ordered. If you use the Internet and online databases to answer important health and medical questions, the Super Searchers will help huide you around the perils and pitfalls to the best sites, sources, and techniques." Library Book W 26.5 D483s 2000 (Circulating Stacks) Example Page

Internet Sites

• Academy Health
• Academy of Management
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• American Economic Association
• Association of University Programs in Health Administration
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Health Accounts
• Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) 
• CS Monitor
• The Economist
• International Health Economics Association
• International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Institute of Medicine
• Jim Vileta's Health and Medicine on the Web
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• Minnesota Department of Health
• Minnesota Public Radio
• National Institute for Health Care Management Research & Educational Foundation
• National Public Radio
• National Rural Health Association
• New York Times
• Rural Health Resource Center
• UMN Rural Health Research Center
• U.S. Census Bureau
• United States Department of Health and Human Services
• Washington Post
• World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Statistic Database
• World Health Organization

Statistics:

• American Health Department Hospital Statistics by State
• HCUPnet
• Kaiser State Health Facts
• Medicine Plus: Health Statistics
• Michigan Department of Community Health Health Statistics and Reports
• Minnesota Department of Health Health Data and Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Vital Statistics System
• South Dakota Department of Health
• University of Michigan Library Statistical Health Resources on the Web
• University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
• WHOSIS (World Health Organization Statistical Information System)
• Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services Health Statistics

Last Modified:  February 3, 2009

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