Healthcare Management
Published: January 2024
Description
This program is for healthcare professionals transitioning into managerial roles who require business knowledge and leadership principles to complement their clinical expertise. Throughout the program, you’ll delve into the core facets of business and their unique application in healthcare organizations. Whether you’re a medical practitioner or a professional working in the industry, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of the factors shaping the U.S. healthcare system — including macroeconomic forces and organizational dynamics — and unpack the fundamentals of health services administration. These learnings will include payment structures, budgeting, funding, compliance, and quality assurance.
By leveraging industry-specific case studies, you’ll build management skills and techniques to run more efficient hospitals and healthcare centers, become a more effective leader in the industry, and ultimately optimize patient care. You’ll also gain actionable insights applicable to your unique context and learn to navigate the complexities of healthcare management confidently.
Course Takeaways
- Review the funding structures and resource flows within the U.S. healthcare industry and understand what is needed for good financial stewardship.
- Develop practical tools and skills to facilitate your progress from a healthcare manager to a healthcare leader.
- Gain operations-management techniques to effectively market and lead a group-healthcare practice.
- Enhance your knowledge of compliance and quality-assurance standards, and learn how to negotiate potential conflicts of interest within dynamic healthcare organizations.
Meet the Instructors
Paul Taheri, MD, MBA, is Chief Executive Officer of Yale Medicine, and a Deputy Dean at the Yale School of Medicine, providing leadership for a rapidly expanding physician organization that combines the best compassionate care with the latest in advancing medicine. He joined Yale Medicine from University of Vermont (UVM), where he was President and CEO of the UVM Medical Group in Burlington, and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, as well as a professor of surgery. Before that he was Division Chief of Trauma, Burn and Critical Care, and then Vice Chair of Surgery at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he completed his MBA at the Ross School of Business. Dr. Taheri, who is originally from Buffalo, N.Y., completed his medical degree at New York University and his general surgical residency at Tulane University. Yale Medicine’s CEO is also the past chair of the Group on Faculty Practices for the Association of American Medical Colleges and an examiner for the American Board of Surgery. He has lectured broadly on various business topics, including cost of care, physician leadership and system optimizations.
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