The top 20 Healthcare courses you need to take

1. Healthcare Law

This Specialization is designed to help you navigate the complex legal framework that governs modern health systems. You will learn the fundamentals of American health law, then explore how privacy law shapes the relationship between healthcare providers and their patients. You will also learn how intellectual property law influences everything from the pharmaceutical industry, to medical research, to cutting-edge ethical issues involved in emerging technologies such as DNA-testing. Finally, the specialization will conclude with a study of how other countries vary in their approaches to solving the common problems that face all health systems...

2. Healthcare Marketplace

The first course, Healthcare Marketplace Overview, covers all of the major sub-sectors of the healthcare industry including the physician, hospital, insurer and medical technology markets, including a historical perspective. The second course, Healthcare Delivery Providers, takes an in-depth look at the system of healthcare delivery and the transformations occurring to improve the health of populations and communities. The third course,Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Innovations, gives the learner an in-depth view of the intellectual property creation that is vital to creating breakthrough technologies. The fourth course, Medical Technology and Evaluation, explains how cost-effectiveness analysis is used in the healthcare market to put a monetary value on a life saved through a new innovation.\n\nThe Capstone brings together key skills engendered from the four courses to create an original medical innovation valuation. The first course teaches the learner to size a population or market. The second course explores whether the healthcare delivery system and the clinicians will or will not find value from deploying a new innovation. The third course identifies the competitive landscape of medical technology innovations to compete or complement. The fourth course teaches how to put a monetary value on the improvement in health resulting from a new innovation. In this way, the suite of four courses supports the capstone experience...

3. AI in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed industries around the world, and has the potential to radically alter the field of healthcare. Imagine being able to analyze data on patient visits to the clinic, medications prescribed, lab tests, and procedures performed, as well as data outside the health system -- such as social media, purchases made using credit cards, census records, Internet search activity logs that contain valuable health information, and you’ll get a sense of how AI could transform patient care and diagnoses.\n\nIn this specialization, we'll discuss the current and future applications of AI in healthcare with the goal of learning to bring AI technologies into the clinic safely and ethically.\n\nThis specialization is designed for both healthcare providers and computer science professionals, offering insights to facilitate collaboration between the disciplines.\n\nCME Accreditation\n\nThe Stanford University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. View the full CME accreditation information on the individual course FAQ page...

4. Healthcare IT Support

Are you looking to get your foot in the door as a Healthcare IT Support specialist? Do you want to solve technical problems for healthcare professionals and health system employees? Have you always wanted to enter an in-demand field in Health Information Technology? The courses in this specialization are designed to pique your interest regarding the ever-evolving field of IT support in healthcare. In order to help physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and a wide range of other allied health professionals and non-clinical staff, you need to be familiar with the basic language of healthcare. Through this 4-course specialization, we’ll take you on a whirlwind tour of what it means to play a critical role in maintaining the ongoing operations of a hospital, health system, clinic or other healthcare setting. You’ll be introduced to the basics of health IT fundamentals, the different technologies relevant to healthcare, and important aspects of data security, privacy and compliance. You’ll have an opportunity to hear stories of inspiration from health IT staff who once were in your shoes. Go behind-the-scenes at a large hospital to learn about the many ways in which IT support staff play a role in helping patients, providers and the population. You’ll even receive tips on job interviews and advice on how to succeed on this career path...

5. Healthcare Organization Operations

The healthcare tetralogy specialization is intended for anyone interested in healthcare organization as practiced in the United States. A range of healthcare organizations are discussed (e.g., medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and public health). The specialization is particularly useful to anyone working in the healthcare industry who either has: 1) a developing interest in the issues important to the administration of healthcare organization operations; or 2) some expertise, but wishes an overview or refresher of the issues. However, those who do not work in the healthcare industry, but who interact with healthcare organizations of any type as patients/consumers will also find the specialization informative. Through the four courses in the specialization, you will cover many aspects of healthcare organization operations including the relationship between healthcare organizations and the health system as well as health care delivery, business process management, and quality improvement within healthcare organizations. Upon completion of the specialization, those who interact with healthcare organizations as patients/consumers will have a better understanding of the issues involved in the effective administration of healthcare organizations and operations. Those working in the healthcare industry, upon completion of the specialization, will be better able to contribute to the effective administration of the healthcare organization’s operations...

6. Fixing Healthcare Delivery

Isn’t it time to end the loss of life from preventable medical errors? Each year 100,000 patients die from preventable errors in the U.S. How can you help to change this intractable problem? Knowledge is power, and this course will provide you with a deep understanding of the problems and the solutions. You can become part of the solution...

7. Healthcare Data Literacy

This course will help lay the foundation of your healthcare data journey and provide you with knowledge and skills necessary to work in the healthcare industry as a data scientist. Healthcare is unique because it is associated with continually evolving and complex processes associated with health management and medical care. We'll learn about the many facets to consider in healthcare and determine the value and growing need for data analysts in healthcare. We'll learn about the Triple Aim and other data-enabled healthcare drivers. We'll cover different concepts and categories of healthcare data and describe how ontologies and related terms such as taxonomy and terminology organize concepts and facilitate computation. We'll discuss the common clinical representations of data in healthcare systems, including ICD-10, SNOMED, LOINC, drug vocabularies (e.g., RxNorm), and clinical data standards. We’ll discuss the various types of healthcare data and assess the complexity that occurs as you work with pulling in all the different types of data to aid in decisions. We will analyze various types and sources of healthcare data, including clinical, operational claims, and patient generated data as well as differentiate unstructured, semi-structured and structured data within health data contexts. We'll examine the inner workings of data and conceptual harmony offer some solutions to the data integration problem by defining some important concepts, methods, and applications that are important to this domain...

8. Healthcare Marketplace Capstone

In the Healthcare Marketplace specialization capstone course, key skills are engendered from the four prior courses to create an original medical innovation valuation. The first course in the specialization teaches the learner to size a population or market. The second course teaches whether the clinician will or will not find value from deploying a new innovation. The third course identifies the competitive landscape of medical technology innovations to compete or complement. The fourth course, teaches how to put a monetary value on the improvement in health resulting from a new innovation. The summary of these elements creates a document of high strategic value where the learner has demonstrated not only an understanding of the marketplace but what is required for the marketplace to advance. This is what is accomplished during the Healthcare Marketplace capstone experience...

9. Violence Against Healthcare

At the global level, there are many countries marked by violence affecting health care. The 'Health care in danger' project aims to establish practical measures and recommendations that can be implemented on the ground by policy-makers, humanitarian organizations and health professionals. In view of the multiplicity of actors and latitudes concerned, it is essential to be able to make available the tools needed to make informed decisions, guide behaviour in high-risk areas and provide everyone the means to create and optimize the dialogue between humanitarian professionals and health on the one hand and relevant authorities or other armed actors. This course covers various topics such as ethics, rights and responsibilities of the staff of health and pre-hospital personnel, issues related to international law and humanitarian law, international human rights, caregivers and patient safety as well as the role of communities to address and reduce violence against health care...

10. Deep Learning for Healthcare

This specialization is intended for persons involved in machine learning who are interested in medical applications, or vice versa, medical professionals who are interested in the methods modern computer science has to offer to their field. We will cover health data analysis, different types of neural networks, as well as training and application of neural networks applied on real-world medical scenarios...

11. Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Health systems worldwide seek to prevent and treat disease and illness and improve well-being and quality of life. This specialisation focuses on improving the quality of the services provided by these systems. The specialisation content is based on the academic literature and research in quality improvement, comprehensively illustrated with real-life practical examples.You will hear from leaders in the field, including a range of guest speakers to support your learning. In this specialisation, you will explore what is meant by quality in healthcare, study approaches to improving quality; and understand what has and has not been learned through scientific study of such approaches to date.\n\nYou will gain an appreciation of the theory and practice of improving quality in health and care, through the scientific literature, and through case studies from around the world. You will learn the tools and techniques of quality improvement, how to apply them and to critique their use. You will learn to analyse data over time to guide and evaluate improvement initiatives. You will study these concepts in health service and population health settings, learning from quality improvement practitioners and experts in the field...

12. Healthcare Financial Management Fundamentals

This course is the continuation of "Intro to Finance in Healthcare." If you have not yet taken the introductory course, it is recommended that you complete that course prior to this course. The foundational knowledge is carried through in this deeper dive into financial management in healthcare. In this course, you will continue to explore concepts and topics related to accounting and finance basics for healthcare organizations. You will learn how to read, interpret, and use a financial statement in order to understand the financial health of an organization. You will explore long-term financing and learn about the types of debt available to healthcare organizations. You will also be introduced to financial planning and analysis and how to best assess the financial performance of a company. You will be asked to put yourself in the position of a financial officer within a healthcare organization as you explore the complexities and challenges healthcare organizations face when managing healthcare financial decisions. Throughout this course, you will be given the opportunity to evaluate your understanding through engagement in a course project, discussions, and through completion of content quizzes along the way...

13. Healthcare Project Management

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Healthcare project leaders - Have you ever wondered why the programs at your organization aren't fully adopted? Why it feels like each department works in a silo instead of resembling actual teammates? Why the ball gets dropped so often? Why there's so much miscommunication? The answer may be that your organization isn't following some fundamental project management (PM) best practices. This course is designed for the healthcare project management (PM) novice. As a physical therapist, I was tasked with managing all kinds of projects without the slightest idea of project management best practices (and without the slightest idea that project management was even a thing!). My goal is to provide some foundational PM skills to those clinicians out there that have been tasked with implementing new programs or creating new processes in their organizations. My aim is to provide you with lessons learned, 'what I wish I had knowns', and basic skills to set you up for success in bringing your projects to completion! Let the journey begin! CONTINUING EDUCATION NOTES: PMP(R) Certificate Holders: This course content is appropriate to be self-logged for 1 PDU in Ways of Working under the Education category. Nothing will be automatically added to your Dashboard after taking this course. You will have to manually log into your PMI(R) account and self-enter the PDUs in your Dashboard. Please message me with any questions on how to log your PDUs. Physical Therapists/PTAs: For the year 2023 - This course is approved for 1 continuing education credit by the West Virginia Board of Physical Therapy for physical therapists and physical therapy assistants in the United States. Please message me for details on obtaining the appropriate course certificate if this applies to you. Thank you!...

14. Tableau For Healthcare

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Tableau For Healthcare is a course focused on what quality is, why we care about it in healthcare, and how we can best use Tableau to analyze it using different topics like readmissions, ED utilization, mortality, and hypertension management. Please note that while Tableau functionality will be discussed, this is not meant to be an intro to Tableau course - instead it's focused on the leveraging Tableau to analyze quality improvement within health systems and hospitals. This course was created by me - Mark Connolly, MEng. I'm currently a Business Intelligence Lead and co-lead for the virtual Tableau Healthcare User Group. I have over 4 years of experience reporting on quality data using Tableau and over 8 years of experience in the healthcare analytics space in general. I have a Tableau Desktop Certification and recently received a Site Admin badge after completing the Tableau eLearning path. Beyond my experience working directly with quality data and Tableau, I have also developed internal Tableau training programs and provided 100's (if not 1000's) of hours of training support to analysts both at his current organization and externally. This course combines two of my passions - helping others with Tableau and healthcare!...

15. Blockchain and Healthcare

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Blockchain technology has the potential to transform the healthcare industry. People in the healthcare sector, however, need comprehensive tools to guide them through a functional and technical understanding of blockchain. This course will give an overview of what blockchain is, how it works, and how it is impacting the healthcare industry, so professionals can be empowered as the field continues to evolve. Music in promotional video by Bensound...

16. CompTIA Healthcare IT

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As an IT professional working at a hospital, it's easy to get overwhelmed with unfamiliar medical terminology and patient confidentiality requirements. CompTIA's Healthcare IT Technician course dives into the hospital-based IT systems and focuses on the medical jargon you'll be working with. CompTIA Healthcare IT Technician puts you in a high-growth job market. Employment of health IT professionals is expected to increase by 20 percent through 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The U. S. government estimates that we will need more than 50,000 health IT workers to help medical providers with electronic medical records. Help desk technicians in healthcare environments earn $40,000 per year on average. The average annual salary for an implementation support specialist, an IT professional able to implement, deploy and support healthcare IT systems, is $71,000.**This course is only for knowledge, not attached to any certification exam.**...

17. Healthcare IT Decoded

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Are you Interested in understanding the basics of Health Information Technology or Health-IT? Yes, then look no further. This course has been designed considering various parameters. I combine my experience of over twenty years in Health IT and more than ten years in teaching the same to students of various backgrounds (Technical as well as Non-Technical). I have leveraged PowerPoint  to explain some of the concepts in an simple but engaging manner. In this course you will learn the following (Currently the Primary focus is on Hospital IT Systems, will add elements related to Payor and Pharma later)Introduction and Basics - History of Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management - Front, Middle and Back OfficeHealth Insurances - How it all started, The Concept of sliding scaleUnderstanding the Institutional Claim File (UB04) and the various data elements present in the same; Revenue Code, Condition Codes, HCPCS Codes  Electronic Medical Records - POMR, SOAP, HIMSS 7 Stages of EMR Adoption, EPIC & Meditech Modules   The Tidal wave of Regulations - ARRA, Meaningful Use, ACO's, ICD-9 to ICD-10, Hospital Price TransparencyData Transmission Standards - HL7, EDI, DICOM, CCD, FHIRTerminology Standards - RxNorm, NDC, NDF-RT, MED-RT, LOINC, SNOMED-CT Additional Topics - Patient Health Records, Health Information Exchange, Clinical Quality ReportingThe Health IT Job Market - Types of Organization to look out for and the different kind or roles one can search or look for in the future...

18. SQL for Healthcare

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SQL for Healthcare looks to provide students a single course to learn SQL and United States Healthcare concepts together. Through the use of MySQL (an open source and free tool) we will explore various use cases like patient volumes, emergency room throughput, and procedures to learn new SQL and healthcare analytics skills. I will be taking an approach of presenting healthcare topics briefly before diving into working examples using SQL. My intent is to help us apply technical concepts of the SQL language while at the same time learning new healthcare knowledge. Following each lecture, there will be an assignment for students to really apply and grow beyond what we cover over video content. I have found this approach really helps with long term retainment of skills. This course is great for anyone new to healthcare and/or SQL and is meant to help others jump start a career in healthcare analytics. This course was created by me - Mark Connolly, MEng. I'm currently a Business Intelligence Lead and co-lead for the virtual Tableau Healthcare User Group. I have almost 10 years of experience in the healthcare analytics space in general. I have used SQL heavily in my most recent role to answer many healthcare clinical analytics questions. Beyond my experience working directly with SQL, I have also developed internal Tableau training programs and provided 100's (if not 1000's) of hours of training support to analysts both at his current organization and externally. I am also the creator for the strongly reviewed Tableau for Healthcare course on Udemy. Please note that this course utilizes training data and is not reflective of any current or past performance or clinical data for any patient, health system, insurance provider, or any other entity. All data is fake and made available for educational purposes only...

19. Master Course: Healthcare IT and Healthcare Management 2.0

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Master course in healthcare IT and healthcare management 2.0Health IT is the collection, storage, analysis, and sharing of health information by physicians, nurses, health administrators, patients, insurance companies, government entities and others. EHRs, personal health records, e-prescriptions, and apps for health are all health IT tools. There have been three basic medical steps for decades: evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. Today, healthcare is considering much more than just the patient's condition to improve how they feel. Doctors, pharmacists, and other providers are using health information technology to improve patient care both short-term and long-term. With health IT, providers can communicate directly with each other to assess all aspects of a patient's life, from diet and exercise to genetic predisposition, so that they can make better assessments and advise. The Healthcare Management IndustryManaging healthcare systems, public health systems, hospitals, entire hospital networks or other medical facilities is called healthcare management. Their duties include making sure each department runs smoothly, hiring qualified employees, disseminating information efficiently throughout the company, achieving specific outcomes, and using resources efficiently, among other things. Healthcare managers can be general or specialized. There are generalists who oversee entire facilities, and specialists who handle specific departments like marketing, finance, policy analysis, and accounting. Here are the 5 major topics I'll cover in this master's course1. Introduction and Importance of Healthcare IT and Healthcare management 2.02. Skills, Trends and IT role in healthcare sector3. Scope and Benefits of healthcare management and healthcare marketing4. Healthcare management functions and healthcare data analytics5. AI in healthcare and becoming a healthcare data analyst...