{"73361":{"#nid":"73361","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Announces Healthcare Financial Mgt. Short Course","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn February 1-2, Georgia Tech presents a short course on \u0027Healthcare Financial Management\u0027 designed for healthcare managers who want to lead their areas of responsibility to lower costs, collect more revenue and improve processes. The course focuses on applying basic healthcare financial concepts to build effective action plans to help meet the higher expectations caused by the financial pressures facing the healthcare industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe lead instructor for the course, David Cowan, executive in residence in the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech, brings 26 years of industry experience to the classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This course will not prepare students to be the chief accountant but instead to function as the CFO in their segment of the organization,\u0022 said Cowan. \u0022We will address basic financial concepts and the unique challenges facing healthcare, and attendees will learn many proven tools and techniques which we will apply to practical case studies.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis course is the first in the Health Systems Professional Education Series for 2006.  Georgia Tech\u0027s graduate program in health systems is top ranked in the field, and faculty members bring their extensive experience in consulting, research and teaching to the classroom. Short courses offered during the coming year include:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E*\tHealthcare Financial Management\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tEssentials of Statistics For Health Professionals\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tStatistics for Health Professionals\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tDecision Analysis in Healthcare\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tHealthcare System Modeling and Operations Management\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tMeasurement and Management of Quality Care\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tComputer Simulation in Healthcare\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tMeasurement and Analysis of Health Outcomes\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tInformation Technology and Decision Support for Healthcare Delivery\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tHuman Computer Interaction and Healthcare Informatics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n*\tInformatics and Healthcare Delivery\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll courses will be taught at Georgia Tech\u0027s new state-of-the-art Global Learning \u0026amp; Conference Center located in midtown Atlanta and are organized by the Professional Education division at Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDetailed information about these courses is available online at \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.pe.gatech.edu\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.pe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E, key word HS.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Professional education courses cover critical health systems topics"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia Tech presents a short course on \u0027Healthcare Financial Management\u0027 designed for healthcare managers who want to lead their areas of responsibility to lower costs, collect more revenue and improve processes.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professional Ed courses cover health systems topics"}],"uid":"27301","created_gmt":"2006-01-06 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:00:59","author":"Elizabeth Campell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73362":{"id":"73362","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178002","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:42","changed":"1475894676","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:36"}},"media_ids":["73362"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.glcc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Global Learning \u0026 Conference Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/healthsystems\/","title":"Health Systems"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.pe.gatech.edu\/","title":"Professional Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}