Healthcare Analytics Management program
Undergrad minorAre you interested in a career in healthcare?
Strengthen your healthcare skillset by learning about data analytics. Healthcare organizations collect extensive amounts of data for effective decision-making, making data analysis skills increasingly important in nearly all health-related careers.
UWL's Healthcare Analytics Management minor was designed with guidance from leaders in the healthcare field. The program prepares students from a wide variety of majors to enter the healthcare industry. Students learn to identify innovative uses of data to solve healthcare management problems, understand key industry metrics, and guide professional decision-making.
What is a healthcare data analyst?
Healthcare data analysts work with data to help solve healthcare issues and improve processes. Not only do these professionals coordinate analytics, but they also have the communication skills to explain findings to healthcare decision-makers.
In the Healthcare Analytics Management minor, I personally got to know two professors who helped me receive three internships in the healthcare industry. Gaining analytical experience with the internships and having my professors as references gave me a competitive edge and led to me finding a job as a data analyst.
Brianna Berg
Healthcare data analyst jobs
The Healthcare Analytics Management minor is designed to prepare students with additional data skills to bring to any healthcare industry career. Students may also pursue a career specifically as a healthcare analyst. The average base salary for a healthcare analyst is approximately $64,000 per year (payscale.com, 2021). A background in healthcare analytics management often leads to managerial and leadership positions in the organization.
What distinguishes UWL's program?
The program was developed under the guidance of an Executive Advisory Board, including senior leadership from Mayo Clinic Health System, Gundersen Health System and Logistics Health Incorporated.
Experience in the healthcare setting significantly increases job opportunities for graduates, so the program places significant emphasis on helping students to gain real-life experience through internships and live case projects. In addition to gaining practical skills, students also gain foundational knowledge about the U.S. healthcare system and healthcare business management practices, including leadership and teamwork.
Students will gain multiple perspectives on healthcare delivery and policy, as well as practice data analysis and communication through applied projects with industry partners.
This minor is housed within the Management Department, but it is open to students with any major. Courses within the minor are from across UWL. They include 21 credits of healthcare and analytics courses (six credits from the student’s major can be double counted).
Students will gain hands-on practice using software used in the healthcare industry to analyze data. Faculty connections with the healthcare industry have led to purchasing these tools and generating mock data for students to use.
Healthcare is a large industry with strong demand. In the U.S. more than 17.7% of the gross domestic product is spent on healthcare, according to CMS.gov.
UWL's College of Business Administration is located in the recently-renovated Wittich Hall. Changes to the facility preserve the history of UWL's second oldest building, while providing modern places to connect and study. The facility was renovated with student input. Student spaces include computer labs, study spaces, sales competition rooms and more.
UWL's College of Business Administration is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This is the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide. AACSB-accredited schools have the highest quality faculty, deliver relevant and challenging curriculum and provide educational and career opportunities that are not found at other business schools.
Sample courses
ECO 230 Data Analysis for Business Applications Building on the foundation in statistics acquired in STAT 145, students will continue to develop and will apply skills in data analysis to aid in business decision making. These skills include data collection, data summarization, data visualization, statistical inference, and communication of data in business contexts. Students will learn and apply best practices for research design and analysis to address authentic business cases. Students will build these skills in collaboration with each other and through engagement with business and community leaders. The course also discusses effective survey design and current privacy and ethical issues in collecting and using data. Prerequisite: ENG 110 or ENG 112; STAT 145; CBA major, CASSH economics major, or healthcare analytics management minor. Offered Fall, Spring.
IS 321
MGT 402 Healthcare Analytics Management This course is primarily concerned with the study of how data and analytics can impact the overall performance of healthcare organizations. The course answers a fundamental question: How do some healthcare firms leverage data analytics and the accompanying technology to perform better than others? Students will explore multifunctional problems that confront top management and gain exposure to the current use of analytics in consumer driven healthcare, risk management, quality and safety, financial performance and reimbursement, health outcomes analysis, and healthcare value and costs. Prerequisite: grade of "C" or better in STAT 145 or STAT 245; ECO 230; cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above; declared major. Offered Spring.
ECO 350 Health Economics Study of the use of resources in health care and the application of economic methods to issues of public health. Topics include organization of health care delivery, relationships between health care and health status, and the economic evaluation of health care services. The U.S. system is compared with those of other nations, focusing on the roles of the consumers and providers in health care markets, and on the roles of government in shaping demand, supply, and utilization. Prerequisite: ECO 110; junior standing. Offered Occasionally.
FIN 360 Principles of Insurance and Risk Management A survey of insurance and risk management concepts, the insurance industry and common insurance contracts. Topics include: types of insurers, functions of insurers, legal principles of insurance, and analysis of property, liability, life and health contracts. Special emphasis will be placed on personal insurance for the home, automobile, life and health. Prerequisite: ACC 221. Offered Fall, Spring.
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