The Health Care Industry Overview Version 2

There is growing evidence that the current health systems around the world will be unsustainable if they go unchanged over the coming years. The health care industry is under constant pressure to streamline operations and cut extraneous spending, while providing quality, safe, and cost-effective care to its patients. In addition, operating in a highly regulated environment, industry players need to constantly adjust their systems and processes for compliance. As a result, they are fine-tuning their business strategies and turning to information technology to eliminate inefficiencies in the value chain, to address issues of access, to improve quality, and to reduce cost. This course provides a high-level view of the health care industry environment, including its key players, trends, structure, and relevant business and regulatory issues. It also provides an overview of the state of affairs and insights into the health care industry. The course reflects on issues and challenges that the industry is facing in North America and other parts of the world, and examines strategic solutions the industry is using to overcome them. The overall purpose of this course is not to make learners industry experts, but to help them better understand the health care industry and some of the successful strategies the key players are applying.

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Consulting houses, corporations, and small-to-medium-sized enterprises that sell products or services to other sectors and industries; companies looking for knowledge and key business information in the health care industry

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Course Overview|Lesson Overview| - recognize the value of knowing about the health care industry value chain, key players, business sectors, and trends|Health Care Value Chain and Business Model| - match the key categories of stakeholders in the health care value chain to their examples| - identify the cost factors and revenue sources associated with the health care industry|Key Sectors and Players in the Health Care Industry| - match each sector in the health care industry to its characteristics| - match the leading health care players to their sectors and contributions|Current Trends in the Health Care Industry| - match the current trends in the health care industry to their examples|Lesson Overview| - recognize the benefits of knowing the key issues and challenges facing the health care industry|Regulatory Issues in the Health Care Industry| - identify the issues and implications associated with health care regulations|Financial Sustainability Challenges in Health Care| - identify the key cost-driving factors contributing to the rise in health care premiums|Delivery Challenges in the Health Care Industry| - match key health care delivery challenges to their examples|Lesson Overview| - recognize the benefits of knowing the strategies that successful health care companies use to overcome challenges|Strategies for Survival and Growth in Health Care| - match the key health care industry challenges to strategies that help to overcome them|IT Strategies in Health Care| - identify the IT strategies used to overcome challenges in the health care industry|Consumer-focused Strategies in Health Care| - match key consumer-focused strategies in health care to their examples|

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