This Specialization will provide learners with the knowledge and skills to recognize key shifts in the industry and to have an agile perspective on how these shifts might impact their organizations. Learners will be exposed to the key drivers in the global healthcare industry today so they might apply what they have learned to help their organizations.
Healthcare Trends for Business Professionals Specialization
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Healthcare Trends for Business Professionals Specialization
Navigate the New Business of Healthcare. Understand the interconnected nature of healthcare to make a positive impact for patients.
Instructors: George “Russ” Moran
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4.5
(146 reviews)
Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 month at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Assess current and future healthcare trends to identify gaps and suggest informed improvements.
Identify and manage the changes needed in organizations to execute new strategies within a changing healthcare landscape.
Define healthcare quality and examine the implications potential changes would have for members of the healthcare ecosystem.
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Skills you'll gain
- Decision Support Systems
- Care Management
- Health Systems
- Quality Improvement
- Payment Systems
- Business Analytics
- Quality Assessment
- Scientific Methods
- Health Care
- Program Evaluation
- Business Intelligence
- Performance Measurement
- Value Engineering
- Health Policy
- Health Care Administration
- Healthcare Industry Knowledge
- Health Informatics
- Patient Safety
- Business Process Automation
- Change Management
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Specialization - 4 course series
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
Category: Emerging Technologies
Category: Payment Systems
Category: Consumer Behaviour
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Innovation
Category: Health Policy
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Customer experience improvement
Category: Health Care
Category: Change Management
Category: Health Systems
What you'll learn
Identify the drivers and trends of healthcare spending from the perspective of various stakeholders.
Critically assess the impact of strategic and financial approaches that have been put in place by the ACA and the various modifications.
Evaluate how healthcare payment models currently work and the new direction that value-based payment is taking.
Identify how financial and non-financial metrics can be appropriately combined to improve a healthcare stakeholders’ value proposition.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Medicare
Category: Risk Management
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Insurance
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Cost Management
Category: Health Care
Category: Value Engineering
Category: Payment Systems
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Health Policy
Category: Care Management
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Primary Care
What you'll learn
Explain key developments regarding how quality of care is measured and evaluated in the US.
Discuss scientific issues and challenges for evaluating quality of care and methods for addressing these challenges.
Identify and apply resources and tools for comparing the quality of care of providers.
Articulate basic framework for evaluating quality of outcomes of care for evaluating and comparing providers.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Quality Assessment
Category: Quality Improvement
Category: Performance Reporting
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Health Systems
Category: Patient Safety
Category: Health Care
Category: Program Evaluation
Category: Scientific Methods
Category: Health Policy
What you'll learn
Determine the factors involved in decision support that can improve business performance across the provider/payer ecosystem
Identify opportunities for business applications in healthcare by applying journey mapping and pain point analysis in a real world context
Identify differences in methods and techniques in order to appropriately apply to pain points using case studies
Critically assess the opportunities to leverage decision support in adapting to trends in the industry
Skills you'll gain
Category: Decision Support Systems
Category: Predictive Modeling
Category: Analytics
Category: Health Informatics
Category: Process Analysis
Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Customer experience strategy (CX)
Category: Business Process Automation
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Business Analytics
Category: Advanced Analytics
Category: Emerging Technologies
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Predictive Analytics
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Frequently asked questions
Each course will take approximately 4 weeks to complete. There are 4 courses in the specialization.
No prerequisite knowledge is required to successfully complete this Specialization.
It is recommended that you take Healthcare Consumerism and Implication for Care Delivery first because it includes introductory material for the other 3 courses.
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