PUB204 Resourcing and Managing Health Budgets
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| Unit code: | PUB204 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | PUB104 |
| Antirequisite(s): | PUB480,PUB609 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,044 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PUB204 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PUB104 |
| Anti-requisite: | PUB480,PUB609 |
| Coordinators: | Sue Walker | s.walker@qut.edu.au Bronwyn Whelan | bm.whelan@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the concepts and methods that underpin decisions about resourcing and managing health budgets. It covers topics at the system, organisational and departmental levels. An understanding of financing and resource allocation concepts, planning and resourcing change initiatives will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to effectively manage the resources under your responsibility and to contribute to discussion and debate about health care funding decisions. Your ability to develop and monitor budgets will be developed. By the end of the semester, you will be expected to have developed sufficient knowledge and skills to be able to critically evaluate health care financing and purchasing priorities and develop a business case using them.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Describe the financing, budgeting and resource allocation concepts including contemporary health care funding models used in Australia
- Discuss the context, information, issues of sustainability and other factors that influence health resource allocation decisions;
- Apply the principles, processes and practices of sound financial management and budgeting at the health service and departmental levels.
Content
This unit includes three modules that support understanding and application of the principles of financing and budgeting in the real world.
Module 1: Health financing at a systems level. Sustainable financing, budgeting and resource allocation concepts. Principles of health resource allocation and budgeting and other drivers.
Module 2: Financial management at the health service and departmental levels - developing a business case, budgeting and reporting on budgets and managing resources for sustainability. Entreprenurial thinking is embedded in the content in the exploration of sustainable solutions through adaptability, and creative problem-solving to leverage innovative approaches.
Module 3: Project planning and resourcing change initiatives.
Learning Approaches
This unit adopts a blended learning approach that will require students to engage in classes and self-directed learning activities. Lectures and tutorials will be conducted each week in synchronous face-to-face and online modalities. Lectures will cover core content integral to achievement of the unit's learning outcomes. The integration of theory and practice is achieved through discussions and case studies in tutorials. Assessments will replicate real world financial decision making.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Two items will form the summative assessment. In addition, the written feedback associated with the marking of assessments and the oral feedback provided on lectorial activities will constitute formative assessment for the unit.
Assessment
Overview
There are two (2) assessments to be completed throughout the semester. Criteria marking sheets will support your achievement of the learning outcomes in your assessment items. Formative activities during tutorials are intended to develop your understanding and consolidate the materials presented in lectures.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Examination (written)
This assessment item is designed to gauge your understanding of the concepts covered in weeks 1-7 including resource allocation and financial concepts, costing processes and controlling costs. It is a take home exam with a series of questions to be answered.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Real world business case
This assessment item is designed to gauge your understanding of the concepts covered in the unit across semester (Wks 1-12), including resource allocation decisions, budget development and purchasing scenarios. You will develop a business case demonstrating application of financial management and resource allocation principles to a real-world scenario. The business case product is to be submitted to your hypothetical HIM employee. The assessment is authentic as it replicates what is done by HIM professionals.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no required references for this unit.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
The below recommended texts are useful resources available in the library:
White S. Principles of Finance for Health Information and Informatics Professionals, American Health Information Management Association; Chicago, 2012.
Duckett S and Willcox S, Australian Health Care System, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/qut/detail.action?docID=4389045.
Courtney M. and Briggs D. (Eds.) Health Care Financial Management,Elsevier: Sydney, 2004.
Drummond M, Sculpher M, Torrance G, O'Brien B, and Stoddart G. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 3rd ed., Oxford Medical Publications: Oxford, 2005.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU51 Bachelor of Health Information Management
- Critically evaluate and apply theoretical and technical perspectives on health information management (HIM), applicable to professional practice to solve routine and emergent problems. [Knowledge, Practice]
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case - Initiate effective approaches for engaging in critical thinking, decision making and problem solving that reflect diverse perspectives and culturally safe and responsive practice, encompassing evidence-based HIM solutions. [Practice, Values/Disposition
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case - Employ digital capabilities in accessing, evaluating, utilising and communicating digital health information across a range of stakeholders, and intra- and inter-professional contexts that demonstrate independence, accountability, creativity and initiative as a HIM professional. [Practice, Values/Disposition]
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case - Exercise judgement in the context of HIM, informed by sustainable, legal, ethical, and professional perspectives that promote social inclusivity, multidisciplinary collaboration and reflective practice. [Values/Disposition, Knowledge, Practice]
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | PUB204 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PUB104 |
| Anti-requisite: | PUB480,PUB609 |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the concepts and methods that underpin decisions about resourcing and managing health budgets. It covers topics at the system, organisational and departmental levels. An understanding of financing and resource allocation concepts, planning and resourcing change initiatives will provide you with the knowledge and skills required to effectively manage the resources under your responsibility and to contribute to discussion and debate about health care funding decisions. Your ability to develop and monitor budgets will be developed. By the end of the semester, you will be expected to have developed sufficient knowledge and skills to be able to critically evaluate health care financing and purchasing priorities and develop a business case using them.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Describe the financing, budgeting and resource allocation concepts including contemporary health care funding models used in Australia
- Discuss the context, information, issues of sustainability and other factors that influence health resource allocation decisions;
- Apply the principles, processes and practices of sound financial management and budgeting at the health service and departmental levels.
Content
This unit includes three modules that support understanding and application of the principles of financing and budgeting in the real world.
Module 1: Health financing at a systems level. Sustainable financing, budgeting and resource allocation concepts. Principles of health resource allocation and budgeting and other drivers.
Module 2: Financial management at the health service and departmental levels - developing a business case, budgeting and reporting on budgets and managing resources for sustainability. Entreprenurial thinking is embedded in the content in the exploration of sustainable solutions through adaptability, and creative problem-solving to leverage innovative approaches.
Module 3: Project planning and resourcing change initiatives.
Learning Approaches
This unit adopts a blended learning approach that will require students to engage in classes and self-directed learning activities. Lectures and tutorials will be conducted each week in synchronous face-to-face and online modalities. Lectures will cover core content integral to achievement of the unit's learning outcomes. The integration of theory and practice is achieved through discussions and case studies in tutorials. Assessments will replicate real world financial decision making.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Two items will form the summative assessment. In addition, the written feedback associated with the marking of assessments and the oral feedback provided on lectorial activities will constitute formative assessment for the unit.
Assessment
Overview
There are two (2) assessments to be completed throughout the semester. Criteria marking sheets will support your achievement of the learning outcomes in your assessment items. Formative activities during tutorials are intended to develop your understanding and consolidate the materials presented in lectures.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Examination (written)
This assessment item is designed to gauge your understanding of the concepts covered in weeks 1-7 including resource allocation and financial concepts, costing processes and controlling costs. It is a take home exam with a series of questions to be answered.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Real world business case
This assessment item is designed to gauge your understanding of the concepts covered in the unit across semester (Wks 1-12), including resource allocation decisions, budget development and purchasing scenarios. You will develop a business case demonstrating application of financial management and resource allocation principles to a real-world scenario. The business case product is to be submitted to your hypothetical HIM employee. The assessment is authentic as it replicates what is done by HIM professionals.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no required references for this unit.
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
The below recommended texts are useful resources available in the library:
White S. Principles of Finance for Health Information and Informatics Professionals, American Health Information Management Association; Chicago, 2012.
Duckett S and Willcox S, Australian Health Care System, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/qut/detail.action?docID=4389045.
Courtney M. and Briggs D. (Eds.) Health Care Financial Management,Elsevier: Sydney, 2004.
Drummond M, Sculpher M, Torrance G, O'Brien B, and Stoddart G. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes 3rd ed., Oxford Medical Publications: Oxford, 2005.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU51 Bachelor of Health Information Management
- Critically evaluate and apply theoretical and technical perspectives on health information management (HIM), applicable to professional practice to solve routine and emergent problems. [Knowledge, Practice]
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case - Initiate effective approaches for engaging in critical thinking, decision making and problem solving that reflect diverse perspectives and culturally safe and responsive practice, encompassing evidence-based HIM solutions. [Practice, Values/Disposition
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case - Employ digital capabilities in accessing, evaluating, utilising and communicating digital health information across a range of stakeholders, and intra- and inter-professional contexts that demonstrate independence, accountability, creativity and initiative as a HIM professional. [Practice, Values/Disposition]
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case - Exercise judgement in the context of HIM, informed by sustainable, legal, ethical, and professional perspectives that promote social inclusivity, multidisciplinary collaboration and reflective practice. [Values/Disposition, Knowledge, Practice]
Relates to: Examination (written), Real world business case