Coursera

Foundations of Telehealth (Coursera)

Offered by Johns Hopkins University,
Foundations of Telehealth (Coursera)

Telemedicine has proven itself to be an important part of the future of healthcare. In this course, students will be introduced to the key components and considerations needed to design and implement a successful telemedicine program at both the practice and health system levels.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see Coursera's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

The course emphasizes operational design principles and highlights a team based approach. Key content areas include clinical considerations, patient safety, technology needs, patient satisfaction, legal, government affairs, regulatory and compliance, and billing considerations.

Syllabus

WEEK 1: A Primer on Telemedicine
WEEK 2: Health System Strategy and Telemedicine Operations
WEEK 3: Billing, Regulatory and Legal Considerations
WEEK 4: Future of Telemedicine

Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Clinical Perspective) (Coursera) Coursera
Columbia University

HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Clinical Perspective) (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

HI-FIVE (Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment) Training is a 12-hour online course designed by Columbia University in 2016, with sponsorship from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The training is role-based and uses case scenarios. Also, it has additional, optional modules on other topics of interest or relevance. Although we suggest to complete the course within a month's timeframe, the course is self-paced and so you can start and finish the course at anytime during a month's time period. No additional hardware or software are required for this course.

Sep 28th 2026
4 Weeks
Health Management Healthcare
Details
Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons for Healthcare Workers (Coursera) Coursera
Johns Hopkins University

Confronting Gender Based Violence: Global Lessons for Healthcare Workers (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

This course introduces participants from the healthcare sector to gender based violence (GBV), including global epidemiology of GBV; health outcomes; seminal research; and clinical best practices for GBV prevention, support, and management. A core curriculum is supplemented by lectures that contextualize the content with specific examples and programs from around the world.

Oct 12th 2026
4 Weeks
Healthcare Epidemiology GBV
Details
The Oral Cavity: Portal to Health and Disease (Coursera) Coursera
University of Pennsylvania

The Oral Cavity: Portal to Health and Disease (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

This course will focus on the interprofessional realtionship of dentistry and medicine. For each session, the medical specialist will present a broad overview of specific disease entity which will be followed by a dental educator discussing the relevant oral manifestations and implications. The final module of each session will be devoted to the interaction between the dental and other health care professionals.

Oct 5th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Medicine Health Healthcare
Details
Program Design & Evaluation for Health Systems Strengthening (Coursera) Coursera
Johns Hopkins University

Program Design & Evaluation for Health Systems Strengthening (Coursera)

Health & Society

This course provides an introduction to designing and evaluating to strengthen the health system. After successful completion of all learning activities, course participants will be able to: 1. Define health systems strengthening; 2. Describe health systems frameworks and how to incorporate them into evaluation planning; 3. Describe how to design and prioritize implementation of health systems programs; 4. Detail approaches to evaluate health systems programs, including data sources and study design; 5. Introduce tools to assist with evaluation planning and simple models to assess health system intervention impact; 6. Describe how to interpret health system evaluation findings and sustainability and scalability implications

Oct 5th 2026
3 Weeks
Program Design Health Systems Evaluation
Details
Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety (Coursera) Coursera
George Washington University

Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

Ensuring patient safety and healthcare quality is critical and should be a key focus of everyone in healthcare practice. This course provides healthcare practitioners and others with an introduction to the knowledge and skills needed to lead patient safety and quality improvement initiatives at the micro and macro levels. Participants will explore the foundations of health care quality and the science underlying patient safety and quality improvement, design and select effective health care measures, analyze patient safety problems and processes using tools such as human factors analysis, apply systematic approaches including the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model to address quality improvement challenges, and learn strategies to lead a culture of change

Sep 28th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Health Healthcare Measurement
Details
HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Social/Peer Perspective) (Coursera) Coursera
Columbia University

HI-FIVE: Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment (Social/Peer Perspective) (Coursera)

Health & Society Medicine & Pharmacology

HI-FIVE (Health Informatics For Innovation, Value & Enrichment) Training is an approximately 10-hour online course designed by Columbia University in 2016, with sponsorship from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The training is role-based and uses case scenarios. Our nation’s healthcare system is changing at a rapid pace. Transformative health care delivery programs depend heavily on health information technology to improve and coordinate care, maintain patient registries, support patient engagement, develop and sustain data infrastructure necessary for multi-payer value-based payment, and enable analytical capacities to inform decision making and streamline reporting.

Sep 28th 2026
4 Weeks
Health Healthcare Patient Care
Details
Community Awareness Course: Sexuality and Disability (Coursera) Coursera
University of Minnesota

Community Awareness Course: Sexuality and Disability (Coursera)

Health & Society

This community awareness course from the University of Minnesota Program on Human Sexuality will provide you with a solid introduction to human sexuality for those living with disabilities. Often there are assumptions that the disabled or differently abled people are not sexual, do not have sexual needs, or cannot be involved sexually. In this professionally produced one-hour course, you'll learn about the basics of disabilities and human sexuality.

Oct 5th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Health Healthcare Sexuality
Details
Lymphoedema: Monitoring & Intervention After Breast Cancer (Coursera) Coursera
Macquarie University

Lymphoedema: Monitoring & Intervention After Breast Cancer (Coursera)

Health & Society

Lymphoedema following breast cancer treatment is a poorly understood and under-researched condition which can significantly impact physical and psychological function, reduce quality of life and result in substantial cost burdens to both patients and the healthcare system. In these interactive modules we will cover an introduction to lymphoedema, lymphatic physiology and anatomy, assessment and treatment, as well as utilise case studies to understand the prospective surveillance and early intervention model of care in breast cancer rehabilitation.

Oct 5th 2026
4 Weeks
Health Healthcare Cancer
Details