HLAD - 8101 Quantitative Decision-Making for Health Administration (3)

Emphasizes quantitative approaches to decision making and problem solving related to the healthcare management by introducing quantitative techniques for optimization, forecasting, staffing and scheduling, productivity determination, resources allocation, and queuing models etc. Examines the benefits as well as the limits of quantitative techniques in a real-world context and promotes a greater use of quantitative techniques in health administration by managers. Equivalent to HLAD-806. Prerequisite: take HLAD-7105, HLAD-7109, and HLAD-7110