Healthcare Marketplace Specialization
Launch your career in the healthcare marketplace. Master your understanding of the complex and wealthy industry of healthcare.
The first course, Healthcare Marketplace Overview, covers all of the major sub-sectors of the healthcare industry including the physician, hospital, insurer and medical technology markets, including a historical perspective. The second course, Healthcare Delivery Providers, takes an in-depth look at the system of healthcare delivery and the transformations occurring to improve the health of populations and communities. The third course,Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Innovations, gives the learner an in-depth view of the intellectual property creation that is vital to creating breakthrough technologies. The fourth course, Medical Technology and Evaluation, explains how cost-effectiveness analysis is used in the healthcare market to put a monetary value on a life saved through a new innovation.
The Capstone brings together key skills engendered from the four courses to create an original medical innovation valuation. The first course teaches the learner to size a population or market. The second course explores whether the healthcare delivery system and the clinicians will or will not find value from deploying a new innovation. The third course identifies the competitive landscape of medical technology innovations to compete or complement. The fourth course teaches how to put a monetary value on the improvement in health resulting from a new innovation. In this way, the suite of four courses supports the capstone experience.
Healthcare Marketplace
Healthcare Delivery Providers
Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Innovations
Medical Technology and Evaluation
Healthcare Marketplace Capstone
The Business of Health Care Specialization
Advance your career in health care management. Develop business skills and understand the American health care system to improve cost and quality.
This Specialization was designed to help you keep pace with the rapidly changing world of health and health care. Through partnership with Wharton and Penn Medicine, you’ll learn from experts in business acumen, health care management, and health care policy to develop the skills you’ll need to successfully navigate the quickly evolving landscape of this fast-growing field.* By the end of this specialization, you will have a strong foundational understanding of the American health care system, along with the basic financial and management skills to make better, well-informed decisions that improve the cost and quality of the health care you or your enterprise provides.
*The employment of medical and health services managers is projected to grow 17% from 2014 to 2024, significantly faster than the average for all occupations.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor. “Occupational Outlook handbook 2016-17 Edition. Medical and Health Services Managers.”
Financial Acumen for Non-Financial Managers
The Economics of Health Care Delivery
Management Fundamentals
Health Care Innovation
Integrative Nursing Specialization
Patient-Centered, Relationship-Based Nursing Care. By the end of this specialization, you will be able to practice a patient-centered, relationship-based approach to nursing that utilizes a variety of integrative healing modalities.
You will identify ways to implement the six principles of Integrative Nursing in your work setting, then learn how to practice and apply specific integrative therapies at work, in alignment with the research evidence and safety and quality considerations. In short, you will be ready to partner with patients on developing a plan of integrative care that fits their needs and preferences. Each course is eligible for Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements and may be eligible for CE credit from other professional boards.
- Introduction to Integrative Nursing
- Aromatherapy: Clinical Use of Essential Oils
- Guided Imagery
- Mindfulness in Integrative Healthcare
Healthcare Organization Operations Specialization
Healthcare Foundations for Administrative Careers. This specialization introduces concepts for healthcare organization administration and operations.
The healthcare tetralogy specialization is intended for anyone interested in healthcare organization as practiced in the United States. A range of healthcare organizations are discussed (e.g., medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and public health). The specialization is particularly useful to anyone working in the healthcare industry who either has: 1) a developing interest in the issues important to the administration of healthcare organization operations; or 2) some expertise, but wishes an overview or refresher of the issues. However, those who do not work in the healthcare industry, but who interact with healthcare organizations of any type as patients/consumers will also find the specialization informative. Through the four courses in the specialization, you will cover many aspects of healthcare organization operations including the relationship between healthcare organizations and the health system as well as health care delivery, business process management, and quality improvement within healthcare organizations. Upon completion of the specialization, those who interact with healthcare organizations as patients/consumers will have a better understanding of the issues involved in the effective administration of healthcare organizations and operations. Those working in the healthcare industry, upon completion of the specialization, will be better able to contribute to the effective administration of the healthcare organization’s operations.
- Healthcare Organizations and the Health System
- Health Care Delivery in Healthcare Organizations
- Business Process Management in Healthcare Organizations
- Quality Improvement in Healthcare Organizations
Foundations of Public Health Practice Specialization
This specialisation will enable you to reflect on and cultivate the behaviours you require to become an effective public health professional –whether as an academic, practitioner, clinician, manager or leader.The specialisation is shaped into four courses covering the origins of public health, health improvement, behaviour change, and health protection. The specialisation will draw upon learning from the Statistics for Public Health and Epidemiology for Public Health specialisations, and builds the foundations of public health knowledge.
By the end of this specialisation, you will be able to:
- Use the principles which underpin public health as a discipline in order to articulate public health objectives;
- Critically analyse public health challenges using data and health intelligence in order to characterise need and prioritise actions for key stakeholders
- Devise effective interventions using behaviour change theory and other public health approaches in order to improve population health outcomes;
- Assess both operational and strategic health protection threats in order to recommend appropriate management actions to relevant parties;
- Reflect upon one’s own professional skills, attitudes, and behaviours in order to improve leadership capability and personal effectiveness in public healthpractice;
- Apply appropriate health protection, health improvement and disease prevention interventions in order to improve public health programmes.
- Healthcare Organizations and the Health System
- Health Care Delivery in Healthcare Organizations
- Business Process Management in Healthcare Organizations
- Quality Improvement in Healthcare Organizations
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.
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 Consumerism and Implication for Care Delivery
- Future Healthcare Payment Models
- Evaluating the Quality of Healthcare Delivery
- Business Application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare