This Specialization was designed to help you keep pace with the rapidly changing world of health and health care. Through partnership with Wharton and Penn Medicine, you’ll learn from experts in business acumen, health care management, and health care policy to develop the skills you’ll need to successfully navigate the quickly evolving landscape of this fast-growing field.* By the end of this specialization, you will have a strong foundational understanding of the American health care system, along with the basic financial and management skills to make better, well-informed decisions that improve the cost and quality of the health care you or your enterprise provides. *The employment of medical and health services managers is projected to grow 17% from 2014 to 2024, significantly faster than the average for all occupations. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor. “Occupational Outlook handbook 2016-17 Edition. Medical and Health Services Managers.”
HK
Very well structured, suitable for non financial experts, provides a good overview and introduction into the financial world.Would appreciate more content into the slides.
JB
Very interesting introduction to the market and governmental forces behind our healthcare system. I enjoyed that the instructor has direct research experience on this topic and spoke candidly.
AK
Well-designed course to intrigue the curiosity of a new learner. Gives valuable insights into the core fundamentals of management.
VW
Great frameworks and solid content. A good course as part of a broader foundation.
RC
The course is really good and I recommended it to my colleagues. It doesn't get 5 stars from me because of the test for week 3 which seems weird.
YL
Great overview about the payment system for health care! But it has too many theories that I don't know how I can apply to real practice.
MR
One of the best courses! Lecturers make it super interesting, is as fun as watching a TV show, but you are learning.
ES
this was a great course which consisted of both economics as well as health which made it more interesting
AM
Good course - time spent examining real world financial statements and real world predictive analytics were the most helpful for me!
CO
The course, Economics of Health Care Delivery, is one of the most wonderful courses I have ever taken. It has exposed so many lessons on the economic perspective of health care delivery.
MA
Fantastic case studies and information. Can immediately deploy this information in my work and personal life.
EA
Weeks 1 and 3 were really interesting and the instructors were very informative. For the other 2 weeks, the topics and instructors were not as interesting. But overall was a pretty informative course.
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feedback is very poor from the quiz especially from the questions with multiple answers
It was great. I had little issues in understanding little bit as i am medical background, it would be great if it had some medical examples.
The course was OK. However, the quizzes do not match the wording of the lectures or accompanying material. Worse, many of the questions are the "pick the best answers" type which if you make even one mistake the whole question is wrong. There is zero feedback on the test results so you have no idea what was wrong. I would have just abandoned this course but it was required for the specialization. Finally got it done. Not a good learning experience and if I want to learn more of this stuff I will pick a better learner centric venue. Tests should be a teaching tool that aid in knowledge acquisition. Not a big, got ya!
This course provides rather intense learning materials and competitive quizzes, urging me to do more research outside of the classes. The course content is informative and a little bit challenging, bur learning it is definitely a rewarding experience. The skills on accounting and building financial models offer me a new perspective and many insights on evaluating the financial performance of companies and strategies they use. Thank you for preparing such a great course.
I do not have a background of Finance and Accounting. This course is really for me to learn the basics and apply it in my practice
Not enough examples in many of the accounting concepts covered. The quizzes were way too hard. It seems like this course would be more suitable for someone with some prior financial knowledge. A nurse or medical professional, without any prior financial knowledge, could get lost quite easily in this course.
The content of Weeks 2 and 3 was fairly difficult by comparison, and the slides were not quite enough detail to be a good reference to prepare for the quiz. I found myself trying to google terms, since there is no "textbook". Overall however, a very valuable course!
The classes were amazing and the quizzes helpful and challenging. I am a medical student in one of the top universities in my country, unfortunately our healthcare managing discipline does not even scrape the most fundamental aspect of managing, which is accounting. Most of the medical students in my country do not have the slightest idea of the economic dynamic behind healthcare, that's why I am recommending this course for all my colleagues. I hope that this knowledge will change our culture, that in most instances only result in the tragedy of commons.
I began this course with very limited knowledge about the role of finance in decision making and ended it with a great overview of its different aspects. Professors Richard Lambert and Christopher Ittner explain the concepts elegantly and at the right pace. The content and teaching were engaging and easy to follow. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who wants to gain good knowledge on using financial data to identify key drivers and take the right decision.
I earned an MBA more than 20 years ago and accounting was my most challenging subject. This course was extremely difficult because I have not had to use most of the accounting knowledge I gained during the MBA program 20 years ago. However, as I worked through each module, certain terms and processes were familiar to me because of the accounting class I took more than 20 years ago.
Everything i was looking for from this course and more.
Both professors had good lecturing styles and kept the content interesting.
The pace of content was considerate of the likely target audience.
I wish some of the quizzes didn't have so many "check all that apply" questions.
Overall, the best course in the Finance and Quantitative Modeling for Analysts Specialization
While I have studied accounting briefly at a high school level, I had not understood it in the context of healthcare much. This course really helped me relate the two. It was an excellent course and I learnt a lot. The test questions made you think and apply what you had learnt in the lectures. It was truly helpful and the quality of this course was fantastic.
This Course was very helpful and providing an excellent knowledge about Financial Results with proper integration with non-financial performance. I really enjoyed the course !
Great course!, It gives so much insights about how to understand the business performance and to make strategic decision with much better foundations. Thank you!
Level of Difficulty is good. Challenging at times to executives in firms who don't have much exposure to financial aspects of the firm. But grit will help you go through the course and complete it.
Would be helpful if more case examples were provided from the health industry, such as health service organizations, pharmaceutical companies, or private health insurance companies.
The course is really good and I recommended it to my colleagues. It doesn't get 5 stars from me because of the test for week 3 which seems weird.
Great way to learn , some topics are really hard to understand if you dont read some Financial Terms
The module was very informative but lacked examples about the Healthcare industry.
Should consider having a tutor or have users apply to be peer tutor to better facilitates the learning process and forum.