ACPE Distance Education Courses

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Course Title	Description	Register	Course Site (Enrolled students)
ACPE's Keystone	Develop your own personal blueprint for leading and growing your organization, department or agency. [more info]	Register (Express- no online session)	Enrolled Students (Express- no online session)
Business Plans	Take a leadership role in the development of business plans for new programs, projects, and ventures. [more info]	Register (Express- no online session)	Enrolled Students (Express- no online session)
Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE)	Take the step in making a business and quality outcomes case for considering a CPOE system.[more info]	Register (Express- no online session)	Enrolled Students (Express- no online session)
Contracts -What Do You Need to Know?	This course reviews frequently encountered contractual pitfalls in managed care contracts, takes a brief look at some legal issues with managed care organizations, and describes some of the elements that should always be included in a physician employment contract.[more info]	Register (Express- no online session)	Enrolled Students (Express- no online session)
E-Health Strategies	This course is no longer available for purchase.		Enrolled Students (Express- no online session)
Essentials of Health Law	Gain an understanding of laws pertaining to health care organizations. [more info]	Register (with online session) Register (Express- no online session)	Enrolled Students- Feb 5 - 25 Enrolled Students (Express- no online session)
Course Description Learn to think like a lawyer. Help keep your organization out of the courtroom. This course will give you a basic understanding of laws pertaining to health care organizations. You'll discuss the hot legal issues of today -- privacy, managed care contracting, patient rights, peer review protection -- and how they apply to your organization. Highlights Avoiding antitrust violations Deciphering Stark Legislation Integrating HIPAA rules in your organization Frequently asked questions about managed care organizations Tips for dealing with disruptive practitioners Practitioner health issues Key elements for physician employment contracts Objectives To interpret statutes and judicial opinions which affect health care. To examine how the law affects business relationships and the health care decision-making process. To explore the legal trends in legal liability for hospitals and managed care organizations and ways to reduce the risk. To identify problem practitioners and develop effective strategies for dealing with them. To review issues related to managed care, including key contract provisions. Hide details
Ethical Challenges	Become the leader in developing processes for resolving ethical issues facing physicians, patients and their families. [more info]	Register (with online session) Register (Express- no online session)	Enrolled Students Jan 8 - 28 Enrolled Students (Express- no online session)
Course Description How much treatment is too much when a patient is terminally ill? What is a physician's obligation when the mother of a critically ill child refuses consent for a recommended treatment? When an HIV patient practices risky behavior, how do you balance the patient's right to privacy against public welfare? How should organizational resources be responsibly managed, especially when a healthcare organization is facing serious financial challenges? As a physician executive, are you equipped to deal with today's complex and perplexing ethical issues? This program will help you take a leadership role in developing processes for resolving ethical issues facing physicians, patients and their families. Highlights Building ethics into your organization's organizational culture, especially its policies and procedures. Preventing and managing ethical conflicts at the bedside. Responsibly managing your organization’s resources. Responding to patients’ refusals of needed medical interventions. Setting ethically justified limits on individual and organizational self-sacrifice. Invoking futility to set ethically justified limits on end-of-life care. Putting your institution to the test: gauging its commitment to ethics. Objectives To demonstrate familiarity with basic concepts of bioethics, such as professional virtues, beneficence, respect for autonomy, justice, the fiduciary nature of the medical profession, and preventive ethics. To demonstrate ability to apply basic concepts in a preventive ethics approach to both clinical cases and cases in institutional management. To take a leadership role in framing and monitoring the ethics of one's institution. Hide details
Financial Decision Making	Learn the basic principles of finance to shape your organization's strategic future. [more info]	Register (with online session) Register (Express no online session)	Enrolled Students Feb 5 - March 18 Enrolled Students (Express no online session)
Course Description The ability to apply financial principles and concepts to decision making is critical for the physician executive, but is often a mystifying blend of mechanical calculation and confusing theories. This course provides the knowledge and skills to turn the mysteries into tools you can use to shape your organization's strategic future. The focus is on operations and investment, and the integration of financial principles into those areas. The basic principles of finance will be taught along with the mechanical skills of manipulating financial tools, giving each participant a thorough understanding of the key areas required to both build and grow a fiscally healthy organization. Specifics include: Really using financial and accounting statements. Budgeting and cost management that makes sense. Productivity and performance enhancement. Risks and returns within your organization and in capital markets. Practical investments for short and long term goals. Creating value for your organization in the competitive marketplace. Objectives To demonstrate familiarity with basic concepts of bioethics, such as professional virtues, beneficence, respect for autonomy, justice, the fiduciary nature of the medical profession, and preventive ethics. To demonstrate ability to apply basic concepts in a preventive ethics approach to both clinical cases and cases in institutional management. To take a leadership role in framing and monitoring the ethics of one's institution. Hide details
Follow the Money:Financial Management Series	Develop expertise in specific financial areas and gain a solid basis for discussing issues with financial experts. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions) All Modules Financial Performance Budgeting Process Improvement Ethics & Compliance	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions) Financial Performance Budgeting Process Improvement Ethics & Compliance
Governance for Medical Groups: Take Charge of your Group	Gain the skills you need for strong leadership in your group from the board or partnership perspective. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
High Tech and High Reliability	This new ACPE course addresses why information systems and standardization are key to creating positive acceptable improvements in care. ...[more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
IT- Change Management	Discover implementation tools for gaining commitment, dealing with technical shortcomings, project management skills, training and communication. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
IT- Knowledge Management	Establish realistic processes to get the best information in the right hands at the right time. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Leadership Skills for Medical Staff Officers	Be a more effective leader and get the most out of the management side of your job-managing people, meetings, finance, quality and organizational politics. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions) All Modules Credentialing & Privileging Hospital Finance Meeting & Org. Politics Quality & Patient Safety	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions) Credentialing &Privileging Hospital Finance Meeting & Org.Politics Quality & Patient Safety
Managing Physician Performance	A definitive guide to managing medical professionals, from recruiting and hiring to everyday supervision.[more info]	Register (With online sessions) Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students Mar 19 - Apr 29 Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Course Description This is the definitive guide to managing medical professionals, from recruiting and hiring to everyday supervision. Finding and attracting the best candidates for positions in your organization, evaluating physicians' performance, and motivating your staff are just a few of the topics covered. Other topics include: Questions you can -- and can't -- ask during a job interview. Defining job expectations from day one. Feedback--it's better to give and receive. Becoming a "coach" to motivate staff. How to handle marginal performers. Hide details
Mastering the Basics of Health Care Finance	Learn budgeting, managing costs, reporting results, and some of the unique aspects of accounting for health care organizations. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
MetaLeadership: Removing Barriers and Building Bridges	Focus on how to connect people, resources, information and performance of different professions and specialties. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Pay for Performance	Common initiatives are explained, including the role of patient satisfaction, IT investment, and process standards vs. outcomes measures as means to measure quality. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Physicians and Hospitals: Proven Techniques to Optimize the Relationship	Cultivate a new and non-intuitive approach for managing the broken relationships between health system managers and physicians. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Physician in Management	More than 15,000 physicians have chosen the Physician in Management Seminar (PIM) to learn the business skills medical schools don't teach. You can take all six modules for the full PIM Seminar, or pick and choose individual modules in any order or combination you like. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions) All Modules Communication Finance Influence Management Marketing Negotiation	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions) Communication Finance Influence Management Marketing Negotiation
Practical Fundamentals of IT	This course is no longer available for purchase.		Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Practice Management	Transform your practice into a unique environment where everyone - patients, physicians and staff – thrives. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Science of High Reliability	Learn to improve patient care (safety, clinical quality, cost, and time) through applying best practices from High Reliability Organizations.[more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Stark Regulations: Prohibitions, Exceptions, and Guidance for the Future	This 3-hour web lecture studies Stark regulations and reviews updates, changes and exceptions to this complicated law	Register (Express no online sessions)	(Express no online sessions)
Taking Charge of Change	This course is no longer available for purchase.		Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Taming Disruptive Behavior	Learn how to manage disruptive behavior, including how to have the difficult conversations and explain that disruptive behavior that has been tolerated for years is no longer acceptable.[more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Three Faces of Quality	Expose your to techniques used to meet various quality initiatives, including total quality management, outcomes management, and clinical guidelines. [more info]	Register (with online sessions) Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students Feb 12 - March 25 Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)
Course Description The most successful physicians and organizations are able to demonstrate that they deliver appropriate care with superior outcomes to the most satisfied patients at the lowest cost. This course will introduce techniques used to meet those goals, including total quality management, outcomes management, and clinical guidelines. Using measurement and data collection to see where you are and where you should be. How examining and changing processes can improve quality of care. How to overcome physicians' resistance to practice guidelines, and why you should. When it makes sense to use a disease management strategy. How report cards can help or hinder your organization's ability to compete. Objectives To integrate the best quality management components from national quality leaders. To discover when and where each of the quality approaches is most effective. To study the difficult cost-quality issues in managed care organizations. To explore case studies which challenge the delivery of high quality care. Hide details
What’s New in Credentialing and Privileging	Be up to date on core privileges, privileging for new procedures, and privileges that cross specialty lines. [more info]	Register (Express no online sessions)	Enrolled Students (Express no online sessions)