Health Care Leadership

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What do you need to lead a business in the health care sector?

Health care is a complex, multidisciplinary endeavor, requiring leaders to direct and motivate diverse teams representing varying educational and cultural backgrounds as well as different business functions. How can you balance the needs of patients, providers, and payers? What tactics are most important for a valuable, competitive, and sustainable health care practice? Do you know how to protect your patients against racial disparities built into the health care system?

Health Care Leadership is designed for emerging leaders in provider, payer, and life sciences organizations. The series includes courses in business strategy, economics, and digital health, delivering key lessons in leadership and management for today’s health care landscape. Taken together, these courses allow you to develop a comprehensive approach to health care leadership and consider strategies for an ever-evolving sector.

 

Who is this series for?

The Health Care Leadership Series is designed for rising leaders in health care organizations who are working to effect change in their organizations. Leaders with a clinical, science, or technical background will become better strategists and business leaders, and those with existing business, or finance training will benefit from insights into the challenges and perspectives of front-line health care delivery professionals.

 

About the Faculty

These series courses represent the breadth and depth of Harvard University and its faculty. Learn from professors across disciplines -- from Harvard Medical School to Harvard Business School -- and hear from experts in leading industries around the globe. Benefit from this wide ranging expertise, studying topics from different points of view and with different categories of emphasis.

The Series at a Glance

Health Care Economics

Health Care Economics: balancing the needs of patients and purchasers is a daily struggle for health care leaders and central to the success of any business in the health care field. Taught by Harvard Medical School faculty, Health Care Economics provides insights into the interactions between industries in the health care sector and teaches what economic forces are shaping health care.

  • Why is health care so expensive (in absolute and relative terms)?
  • What role should patients and providers play in making important choices about care, and what role should cost play in those decisions?
  • Why is the risk pool for health insurance so important, and how do we manage it?
  • How can we structure benefits to promote efficient consumer decision-making?
  • How do we structure payments to promote efficient provider decision-making and to reward innovation?

 

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The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard Medical School designates this enduring material for a maximum of 19.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will have access to claim their credits through the Harvard Medical School’s continuing education platform.

Interested in other Harvard Medical School accredited online continuing education courses? Visit the Harvard Medical School CE Catalog.

 

Digital Health

Digital Health: provides a framework to think strategically about digital transformation in health care in the context of its complex ecosystem and culture. Through a deepened appreciation for both the capabilities of the technologies as well as health care-specific challenges, learners will be better prepared to develop or implement digital innovations that create value and improve health care delivery.

  • Digital transformation in the health care enterprise
  • Real world evidence and practical frameworks for evaluating health apps
  • Understanding unmet needs of patients and providers
  • Improving patient outcomes in large health care systems
  • Privacy and ethical issues in digital health

 

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The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Upon successful completion of the course, participants will have access to claim their credits through the Harvard Medical School’s continuing education platform.

Interested in other Harvard Medical School accredited online continuing education courses? Visit the Harvard Medical School CE Catalog.

 

From Past Learners

This is an amazing course. The professor did a fantastic job dissecting the complexities of health care into chewable junks that made it easier to understand the complexities.

Howard H. Dinh
MD, FACC on Health Care Economics Medical Director, Cardiac Services, Greater Sacramento, The Permanente Medical Group and Chief, Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento

I felt the course covered a good overall scope and understanding of healthcare economics and would be beneficial for anyone seeking or needing a greater understanding of the stakeholders and forces at work in the healthcare sector. This applies for those new to healthcare as well as those who have worked in the industry for long periods of time.

Andy Milligan
RN, BSN, CHPN on Health Care Economics President & CEO Solaris Healthcare, Inc

This is now my fourth HBS online course that I have taken. I love the format that lets me learn asynchronously when I have time in my busy schedule. The HBS courses do a wonderful job encouraging interaction with peer learners which amplifies the learning. The HBS courses foster this peer engagement much more effectively than I have found in other online courses that I have taken.

Denver Sallee III
MD on Health Care Economics Chief Financial Officer Sibley Heart Center Cardiology, Associate Professor of Pediatrics Emory University School of Medicine

For Organizations

Organizations of all sizes can benefit from a partnership with these courses. Our partners at HBS Online can work with you to create a solution that fits your business’ learning and development needs.

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