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Healthcare Management

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Overview

Discover how the application of fundamental business and management principles can enhance accessibility, quality, and safety in healthcare administration.

On completion of this program, you’ll walk away with: A comprehensive understanding of funding structures and resource flows within the US healthcare industry and insight into the factors required for good financial stewardship within healthcare. Practical tools to help you progress from a healthcare manager to a healthcare leader. Operations-management techniques to effectively market a group practice. Knowledge of compliance and quality-assurance standards, and how to negotiate potential conflicts of interest. Unlimited access to 2U’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Syllabus

  • Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
  • Module 1: Introduction to the economics of healthcare
  • Module 2: Financial resources underpinning healthcare
  • Module 3: Operations management and healthcare delivery
  • Module 4: Balancing patient rights and physician interests
  • Module 5: Financial principles underlying health systems
  • Module 6: The physician’s role in capital budgeting
  • Module 7: Physician organization
  • Module 8: Physician leadership

Taught by

Paul Taheri

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