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VDCI

AI for Healthcare Administration

via VDCI

Overview

Leverage Claude to simplify healthcare administration documentation, analysis, and communication through a personalized workflow built on compliance, HIPAA awareness, and appropriate AI use boundaries.

Syllabus

Module 1: Getting Started with Claude AI

  • Explain how Claude works in plain language and identify the model tiers, plans, and interface
  • Understand the context window, how Claude processes information, and when to start new conversations
  • Practice your first Claude conversation using a healthcare administration-specific prompt
  • Identify what Claude does well, what it doesn’t, and when human judgment is essential

Module 2: Prompting Fundamentals

  • Apply the five-part prompt framework: context, task, format, constraints, and examples
  • Write effective prompts across five use cases: writing, summarization, analysis, research, and creative problem-solving
  • Recognize and fix common prompting mistakes that produce vague or unusable output
  • Practice prompting with healthcare admin scenarios: drafting a department policy, summarizing a compliance audit report, and writing a patient-facing communication about a process change

Module 3: Working with Files & Documents

  • Upload and analyze images, PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents directly in Claude
  • Use Claude to extract, compare, and summarize information from uploaded files
  • Work with healthcare administration file types: policies and procedures, compliance reports, quality metrics exports, patient satisfaction surveys, and operational dashboards
  • Complete a hands-on document analysis exercise using provided healthcare administration sample files

Module 4: Projects & Knowledge Bases

  • Explain how Projects use custom instructions and knowledge bases to organize ongoing work
  • Write effective Project instructions that encode your role, audience, format preferences, and rules
  • Upload reference documents and understand how RAG retrieves relevant content
  • Create a healthcare administration Project for a quality improvement initiative or policy revision using provided sample documents and templates

Module 5: Artifacts, Styles, Memory & Usage Management

  • Create reusable deliverables with Artifacts and edit them directly or through conversation
  • Build custom Styles that match your professional communication voice
  • Configure Memory to retain key context about you and your work across conversations
  • Apply usage management techniques to extend your plan value

Taught by

Reid Johnson and David Nguyen

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