Description

This course is designed to help healthcare sector directors and managers to build, manage, monitor and evaluate the performance of their functions and processes to ensure that they meet the strategic and operational targets of their healthcare organizations. It will provide them with basic knowledge that will enable them to set proper objectives for their business, identify the risks threatening it and finally managing these risks through integrated system of internal controls. The globalization process, complexity of healthcare sector transactions and the increase in fraudulent activities have recently sharpened the ever-increasing attention on internal control systems in banking sector. This course aims to enable students to learn and understand the nature and importance of Internal Controls within healthcare organizations.

Program

MBA

Objectives

• Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: • Define the internal control characteristics of healthcare organizations in understandable terms. • Introduce the components that should be considered in building internal control systems in healthcare sector. • Describe the principles, frameworks and approaches that gauge internal control in healthcare sector. • Identify the exposures to risk that an organization faces with respect to assets and data in healthcare sector. • Discuss the control problems caused by computerization of systems in healthcare sector. • Discuss how to bring improvement in internal control systems in healthcare sector.