[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2012-2013 Graduate Academic Catalog

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[ARCHIVED CATALOG] 2012-2013 Graduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HCM 560 - Consumer Health Care

3 credit hours

Prerequisites: HCM 520 .
In this course, students will study the critical elements of contemporary consumer health care management beginning with an understanding of JCAHO's interest in and support for patient, client, customer, and employee satisfaction through communication. The course will also examine the role of communication as it relates to health care quality improvement methods and allied health professions such as communication as a central feature of customer satisfaction, communication management to support health care consumerism, process improvement techniques related to health care practice behavior, and the way these techniques are communicated to practitioners, agents, and patients.