October 20 - November 2, 2008
Online Course, 24/7 Access
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Course Description:
The U.S. healthcare delivery system is huge and complicated. Healthcare is a two-trillion-dollar sector that accounts for 16 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. Understanding its size, scope, and complexity can help improve the performance of everyone who works in healthcare.

Orientation to Healthcare is an online course focusing on the role of four key groups in the healthcare system—patients, hospitals, physicians, and insurers/managed care organizations. In addition to describing each of these groups, their key characteristics, and their major challenges and issues, the course will consider the interrelationships among the groups and other elements of the healthcare system.

Target Audience:
Orientation to Healthcare is for all healthcare professionals. This course is very helpful for on-boarding new staff members and professionals new to the healthcare field. This online course will give participants an understanding the fundamentals of healthcare; crucial to every member of your team. Those who complete the course will be able to:

• Describe the major structural elements of the American healthcare system
• Determine the key drivers of the healthcare system
• Identify the healthcare system’s major groups and their key characteristics
• Understand the relationship among the key players in the healthcare system
• Understand some economic fundamentals of the healthcare system