Healthcare Administration MicroMasters

What you will learn:

• How to use management and leadership frameworks, theories, and case studies to address complex issues in healthcare organizations
• How to manage the economic environment in healthcare
• Financial Management techniques to prepare budgets, financial forecasts, assess investment alternatives, and leverage capital structures within healthcare organizations
• Evaluate the value of new healthcare delivery systems and interventions on the basis of quality, safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness using accumulated data
• Evaluate health policy as it applies to industry economics, needs demands and quality of care
• Apply advocacy skills including quality of care, patients-rights, cultural competency and preventative care
• Apply leadership frameworks, skills and functions of management in planning, organizing leadership and systems control
• Evidence-based methods for planning, organizing, leading, and advocating for patients, families and communities in the public health sector
• Demonstrate an understanding of healthcare system providers, financing, consumerism, past and future trends and regulatory and legal framework.