1. Healthcare Risk Management- Stanford
In an evolving environment, healthcare organizations must ensure that their systems are equipped to tackle potential disruptions and disasters. Having a carefully crafted emergency management plan is therefore vital. Gain the practical tools and knowledge to create one in this online course.
Through scenario-based learning, you’ll develop practical insights into the process of healthcare risk management. In doing so, you’ll learn to identify and address the steps you can take in the disaster management cycle, from preparedness through response and recovery to mitigation. Guided by Dr. M. Meredith Masters and Dr. Matthew Strehlow, you’ll explore the role of a crisis response team in disaster management and create strategies to build organizational and workforce resilience. Ensure your healthcare organization is prepared for tomorrow’s crisis today.
Course Highlights:
- Tools to support your healthcare organization and workforce in times of crisis
- In-depth insight into disaster epidemiology, the importance of disaster preparation, and the role of an incident command system
- Planning exercises that can be used during crisis management
- Strategies to create an effective disaster management drill
- Techniques to improve health-related crisis preparedness and management within your teams and organization
- An understanding of how to build organizational and health worker resilience
Course Duration: 6 weeks (6-8 hours/week)
2. Health Care Risk Management Certificate
The Risk Management Certificate Program at UCF has continuously operated since 1987 with AHCA approval. The eleven course modules are taught by experts in their respective fields, including educators, attorneys, and risk management practitioners. The media through which the program is offered includes lectures, case studies, role playing and videos. The course focuses on clinical and administrative risks with a particular emphasis on Florida Risk Management statutes. The curriculum aligns with the Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management (FSHRMPS) professional development framework.
The Health Care Risk Management Certificate Program is offered entirely online. This means that each student can start at any time and work at their own speed to complete the eleven modules comprising the program. Each student will have up to a one year period in which to complete the program of study.
Course Highlights:
- Registered Nurses (RNs)
- Medical Doctors (MDs)
- Pharmacists
- Respiratory Therapists (RRTs)
- Radiologic Technologists
- Administrators of Healthcare Organizations
- Osteopaths
Course Duration: Self Paced
3. Patient Safety And Risk Management
This course provides comprehensive coverage of all of the knowledge and skills required by today’s patient safety and risk management professionals. It explores how, in healthcare, fallible human beings and complex systems interact to create a challenging safety environment. The course also shows you, in considerable depth, how to set up effective error reporting systems and lead investigations into adverse incidents in order to learn from harm and reduce the likelihood of recurrence. In addition to guiding you through each stage of a patient safety improvement project the course will enable you to develop your impact as an agent of change capable of convincing physicians and other clinical staff to collaborate with you to design safer systems of care and develop a culture of safety.
Course Highlights:
- Appreciate the nature and frequency of medical errors and adverse incidents as well as why healthcare is such a complex safety environment
- Understand the cognitive, physical and psychological factors that affect how human beings and health systems interact
- Identify the dangers technology poses for patient safety as well the role it can play in improving safety
- Improve and optimise your organisation’s error reporting system
- Manage and lead investigations of patient safety incidents using Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Run successful projects that accelerate patient safety improvements using the ‘Model for Improvement’ and Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles
Course Duration: 10 weeks (4-6 hours/week)
4. Healthcare Risk Management- Everett
As concerns grow about reducing liability, healthcare organizations need strategies for reducing errors and establishing a safe environment for patients and employees. Having healthcare professionals trained in Healthcare Risk Management is becoming more and more necessary in organizations as patient safety and reduced costs are a big part of the focus in healthcare today.
Course Highlights:
- Introduction to the concept of risk management in the healthcare setting, including a historical perspective on the development of healthcare risk management
- Overview of applicable federal, state and local health and safety laws relevant to the practice of healthcare risk management and patient safety
- Overview of the principles of malpractice and liability insurance, the conduct of malpractice litigation, and the settlement of malpractice claims
Course Duration: Self Paced
5. 0017 – Healthcare Risk Management– University of Florida
The University of Florida Healthcare online program in Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety allows industry students and professionals the opportunity to further strengthen their foundational knowledge. This flexible, online offering allows participants the opportunity to familiarize themselves with core concepts in: the assessment and management of organizational risk, malpractice and insurance, informed consent, Long term and acute care facility risk principles, acute care infection control and more. In addition to the identification of techniques and foundational concepts, the program also provides participants with a slew of online links and reference articles available for use beyond completion of the course. This niche certificate represents another highly popular healthcare professional education offering from UF’s rich library of online healthcare educational content.
Course Highlights:
- 40 hours of educational content related to general risk management administration and departmental organization and management.
- 30 hours of educational content related to applicable federal, state and local health and safety laws and rules, community interrelationships, and accident prevention.
- 40 hours related to applicable standards of healthcare risk management, including the principles of malpractice insurance, the conduct of malpractice litigation, and the settlement of malpractice claims.
- 10 hours related to additional general healthcare risk management contemporary issues.
Course Duration: Self Paced
6. Certified Healthcare Risk Management Officer (CHRMO)
CHRMO course covers basic concepts of risk management in healthcare, employment practices, and general risk management strategies. It also goes over specific risk areas including medical malpractice, strategies to reduce liability, managing positions, and litigation alternatives.
CHRMO course includes an emphasis on outpatient medicine and the risks associated with electronic medical records. This course covers academic medical settings and their impact on healthcare delivery, ambulatory and outpatient surgery, risk management for infection control programs, telemedicine, risk management in ambulatory care settings, and risk management in office-based surgery.
Course Highlights:
- Basics of Risk Management in Healthcare
- Risk Management Process
- Assessing Risk Management Areas
- Early Warning Systems for Organizational Risks
- Patient Safety Organizations
- Healthcare Legal Concepts
- Legal Issues Common to Healthcare Providers
- Healthcare Risk Management Professional Responsibilities
Course Duration: Self Paced
7. Population Health: Disease Prevention And Management
The connections between prevention, wellness and behavioral health science with healthcare delivery, quality and safety, lifestyle medicine-based disease management and economic issues of value and risk—all in the service of specific populations and subpopulations – need to be made in order that disease can be prevented and managed within these populations.
Learners who take this course will come away with the knowledge to be able to identify key socio-economic and cultural determinants of population health outcomes, analyze the impact of socio-cultural factors on access to health care and adjust health promotions and interventions accordingly.
Course Highlights:
- Identify the three types of disease prevention care/management
- Identify determinants of health and their effect on healthcare outcomes and access.
- Discuss the social and economic imperative of health promotion.
- Define the concept of lifestyle medicine-based disease management and understand the economic case.
- Identify the need for and value of integrating lifestyle medicine into the community, including worksites and healthcare institutions.
- Characterize the differences between chronic care and preventive care management.
Course Duration: 2 weeks (5-10 hours/week)
8. Risk Assessment And Management
Risk assessments are an important part of the occupational safety and health (OSH) management plan. You’ll learn the different types of risk assessment, as well as how and when to conduct each of them. Throughout this course, you’ll be supported with resources such as strategies, templates, and control measures to help you implement a proactive, iterative risk assessment process within your workplace.
Course Highlights:
- Develop occupational safety and health risk mitigation and management plan
- Apply and conduct workplace risk assessment
Course Duration: 2 weeks (6 hours/week)
9. Healthcare Management
Healthcare isn’t limited to patient care. Today’s most successful healthcare professionals are also well versed in essential business and management concepts. Whether you’re running your own practice or managing others in a clinic, department or nursing floor, you must be able to effectively lead the people around you, understand the financial landscape, create budgets and navigate the regulatory environment.
This certificate program is aimed at giving doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals the basic knowledge and skills needed to manage people and programs efficiently, within the bounds of government regulations.
Course Highlights:
Course Duration: 2 weeks (3-5 hours/week)
10. Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion in Healthcare
This course is for anyone interested in understanding and addressing systemic racism, societal biases across social identities, and public health disparities in healthcare while advancing DEI within their own organizations. Healthcare leaders and workforce managers will have the opportunity to engage with expert perspectives and gain a DEI-focused leadership tool kit. They’ll be equipped to understand how DEI manifests in the healthcare sector, and how it affects their management style and team dynamics. DEI professionals and healthcare students who are looking to navigate issues around racial, gender, and other identity-based discrimination within the healthcare sector will find the course content equally valuable.
Course Highlights:
- Learn how to mitigate health disparities and bias in the healthcare system
- Learn and apply specific DEI strategies to combat discriminatory practices while building a stronger patient-practitioner experience in the process
- Discover how recruitment policies, organizational change, and team dynamics can be enhanced through the active use of inclusive practices
- Walk away with the knowledge and tools to help advance workplace equity for diverse individuals
Course Duration: 6 weeks (4-6 hours/week)
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11. Healthcare Finance, Economics and Risk
In order to be a leader/administrator in thehealthcareindustry, you must have a basic understanding of healthcare finance, risk, legal and regulatory issues in order to navigate and change the system. Managing risk is one of the primary responsibilities of a leader. This requires a basic understanding of the financial health and regulatory constraints one operates within to anticipate and address changing dynamics.
Course Highlights:
- How to evaluate the relevance of economics in all aspects of healthcare.
- How to analyze economic concepts and models as they apply to healthcare.
- How to identify the diverse aspects of healthcare financing.
- How to assess economic problems in order to develop and implement economic policy.
- How to evaluate the economic advantages and policy options of healthcare market reform.
Course Duration: 5 weeks (5-10 hours/week)
12. Msc. in Quality and Safety in Healthcare Management
The MSc in Quality and Safety in Healthcare Management offers you advanced education in the use of quality improvement tools and interventions that are specific to quality, safety and risk in the healthcare sector. Throughout the programme you will acquire a deep understanding of core concepts around patient safety, quality, accreditation and governance. Following the completion of the six taught modules, you will further enhance your skills by leading a change project aimed at addressing, quality, health and safety issues in healthcare.
Graduates of this programme are better placed to ensure the delivery and configuration of high-quality health services, and to lead change projects and other development initiatives in their fields. They are also equipped to specialise in formal quality and safety roles.
Course Highlights:
- Develop participants as reflective critical practitioners with the knowledge, insight and skills to determine the threats to quality and safety, and the contributory factors therein, and to identify appropriate evidence based solutions for different levels of the healthcare system.
- Develop participants’ knowledge of quality, safety, leadership and management competencies to enable them to lead teams to improve and assure healthcare standards.
- Develop skills in quality and safety planning, implementing, monitoring and measurement, including the management of accreditation processes, to proactively assure the quality and safety of care.
- Develop a critical understanding of safety culture, driven by learning and accountability, and how such a culture can be fostered and maintained; as part of a collective approach to governance alongside patients and public, ensuring that quality and safety improvement is underpinned by current policy and best practice.
Course Duration: 2 years
