2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 24, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate 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.