• Deakin University

Re-inventing Hospital Administration

Critically reflect on hospital digital health, evolving work practices, skills and roles.

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  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    10 hours
Overview
Requirements
Educators

Hospital administration matters

This Deakin University course is a pathway towards a career as a hospital administrator and making a difference to both patients and healthcare professionals.

In this course, you will work towards developing the skills needed for various hospital administrative roles like hospital manager, director or officer.

You will explore essential theories, processes and techniques for hospital administration and management and cover a range of topics to consolidate your knowledge.

What topics will you cover?

Hospitals in transition
Critically reflect on evolving roles and the implications for required skills.
Hospital administration in a digital age
Examine co-design and future administrator capabilities.

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...

  • Identify the implications of changing hospital contexts for digital health information.
  • Critically reflect on how roles and skills will evolve in hospital administration due to digital health information.
  • Examine how co-design principles may apply to digital health information systems in hospitals.

Who is the course for?

Deakin University microcredential students.

Who will you learn with?

Paul Cooper

A/Prof Paul Cooper specialises in health informatics in the School of Medicine at Deakin University. His goal is to help students learn how to make the most effective use of digital health

Dr. Imran Muhammad

Lecturer, School of Medicine, Deakin University. Imran's research interests range from information systems, Health information systems to Electronic health records and he is a widely published scholar

Who developed the course?

Deakin University

Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.

  • Established

    1974

  • Location

    Melbourne, Australia

  • World ranking

    Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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