Duration
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How it works
Healthcare Management and Strategy
Optimise healthcare performance with fundamental business strategy concepts
On this six-week course from Taipei Medical University, gain a comprehensive overview of healthcare management. Dive into strategic planning, organisational behaviour, and financial management within healthcare settings.
By the end of this course, you’ll have gained the tools to create meaningful change within healthcare settings.
Elevate your leadership skills by mastering strategic and financial management principles
Explore various strategic management and planning models and learn how these can be applied within healthcare organisations.
Delve further into more nuanced concepts surrounding financial and performance management in healthcare settings, including financial statement and cost analysis, value chain, and the product life cycle.
Unpack organisational behaviour and management theories
Understand organisational management as a critical component in optimising company performance by viewing its history critically and accompanying theories.
Learn more about Theory X, Theory Y, and Fiedler’s Contingency Theory to gain deeper insights into organisational behaviour and leadership styles.
Contemplate your leadership style and how it might influence other important aspects of healthcare management, including performance, group structure, organisational culture, and conflict management.
Discuss trends, challenges, and innovations in US healthcare
Finally, use the US health system including Medicare and Medicaid, as a case study to understand the broader healthcare landscape and enhance healthcare management, assessing its benefits, challenges, and complexities.
Syllabus
Week 1
Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations - The Business of Healthcare
Strategic Management Process: Situational Analysis
Professor Huang, Kuo-Cherh, delves into the strategic management of healthcare organizations, covering essential topics such as strategy formulation, strategic planning, and strategic management.
Strategic Management Process: Formulation and Control
Professor Huang, Kuo-Cherh, will now proceed to discuss the subsequent steps of the model of the strategic management process, including strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategy control.
Week 2
Introduction to Organizational Behavior
Introduction to Organizational Behavior
In these sessions, Professor Chiu Chiung-hsuan will serve as your guide as we navigate through the fundamental concepts, theories, and practical applications of organizational behavior.
Exploring Aspects of Organizational Behavior
Professor Chiu explores transactional and transformational leadership, group dynamics, conflict resolution, organizational structure design, and the future of organizational behavior.
Week 3
Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture
Professor Chiu will discuss organizational culture, emphasizing values as its core and discussing socialization and leadership alignment.
Responsive Culture Formation
Delve into strategies for fostering customer-centric cultures, examining creation, sustainability, and employee integration within organizational values and practices.
Week 4
Basic Empirical Financial Management
Financial Management in Healthcare
You will learn the general management, financial statements and accounting and applications in health care administration.
Optimizing Hospital Performance: Financial Tools and Metrics
Explore cost behavior, CVP-BEP, ABC-ABM, and Balanced Scorecard for efficient management and strategic decision-making in hospitals.
Week 5
Activity Based Cost, Activity Based Management and Medical Productivity
Analyzing Hospital Performance: Accounting and Medical Productivity
Delving into ABC and ABM methodologies to gauge efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare delivery.
Exploring Performance Evaluation Strategies
Exploring Responsibility Management System and Cost Control System in Performance Evaluation, with an Empirical Application of the Balanced Scorecard. Delve into effective strategies for enhancing organizational performance.
Week 6
Trends, Challenges, and Innovations in US Healthcare
Key Aspects of US Healthcare
Explore pivotal facets of US healthcare, from legal risks and medical technology to IT budgets and innovative service settings.
Healthcare Programs: Medicare and Medicaid
Explore key aspects of Medicare and Medicaid, covering eligibility, coverage, and the impact of the Affordable Care Act's expansion.
Final Review and Course Feedback
As the course draws to a close, it's time for a final review and feedback session. This session aims to solidify understanding of key concepts and gather valuable insights to refine the course for future students.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore the various aspects of healthcare management
- Investigate organizational behavior, including the history of organization and management theories
- Evaluate general administration, with an emphasis on financial management
- Exploring the healthcare system in the United States
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone looking to broaden their knowledge of healthcare management. Prior knowledge is not needed to complete this course.
Who will you learn with?
Professor, School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University
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