The Master of Healthcare Innovation is a 31 credit hour professional master’s degree program designed to be completed as a two year program of study completed in five semesters. The core program requires 28 credit hours of course work, and 3 hours capstone.
Core Coursework:
- HCINNOV7440: Innovation in High Performing Organizations (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV7441: Innovation Leadership: Leading from Within (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV7442: Building a Culture of Innovation in Health Systems (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV7460: Enhancing Communication in the Innovation System (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV7500: Healthcare Policy: A Case for Innovation (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV7520: Utilizing Technology to Measure Outcomes in Health systems (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV7521: Best Practices In Organizational Operations (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7522: Fundamentals of Design Thinking in Healthcare (3 credits)
- HCINNOV7780: Evidence-Based Practice for Innovation in Organizations (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOVxxxx: Professional Development Seminar (1 credit)
- HCINNOV7593: Capstone 1 (3 credits)
1. Innovation in High Performing Organizations
Course Description:
Students learn advanced concepts of innovation in a high performing organization and the leadership behaviors that sustain innovation. Students discuss cross-disciplinary theories of innovation for improving health and quality of healthcare. Students are introduced to innovation competencies including positive deviance, complexity leadership, and disruptive innovation.
2. Innovation Leadership: Leading from Within
Course Description:
This course encourages students to discover themselves as leaders to maximize innovation and organizational impact. Students will explore their own leadership behaviors to better manage their energy and find balance in order to perform at a peak level and positively impact the advancement of innovation in healthcare.
3. Building a Culture of Innovation in Health Systems
Course Description:
This course builds foundational knowledge of complex adaptive system characteristics in healthcare. It will explore complex adaptive system theory, systems thinking and network relationships as the context of leadership action and innovation. This course focuses on healthcare innovation from a systems perspective emphasizing the importance of networks, relationships, culture and feedback.
4. Enhancing Communication in the Innovation System
Course Description:
This course develops leadership behaviors that facilitate constructive conversations, interactions, and outcomes through communication and coaching techniques. The course explores the role of relationships and communication in healthcare innovation, and challenges the traditionally negative view of conflict, by reframing it as a valuable and normative behavior in high performing organizations.
5. Healthcare Policy: A Case for Innovation
Course Description
This course introduces the multi-faceted elements of healthcare policy at the local, regional and national level. It discusses the role that healthcare policy plays in framing the context for healthcare innovation to occur. Learners will be introduced to the current state of the US healthcare system and the political, systematic and environmental impact of healthcare policy on innovation.
6. Utilizing Technology to Measure Outcomes in Health Systems
Course Description:
This course explores strategies for outcome measurement as a strategy for enhancing organizational performance and innovation and how to leverage technology to measure and integrate outcomes into the daily practice in healthcare. The course emphasizes technology’s role in the measurement of outcomes at the personal, the professional, the organizational and the system level.
7. Best Practices in Organizational Operations
Course Description:
This course explores various elements of organizational operations in order to fully impact the organizations and systems in which they work. This course develops basic skill sets in financial and business operations in healthcare organizations. Students learn specific skills in budgeting, planning, financial analysis, program development and implementation, and resource identification and use.
8. Fundamentals of Design in Healthcare
Course Description:
This course provides a framework and tools for innovation leaders to address challenges within healthcare systems. Principles of design thinking and design principles of functionality, value, and aesthetics are discussed and applied to analysis of complex healthcare problems.
9. Evidence-Based Practice for Innovation in Organizations
Course Description:
This course focuses on the use of evidence-based practice, clinical decision making and patient preference as core competencies of innovation leaders. Students develop skills in searching, appraising, and implementing the best evidence in organizations extending beyond the traditional view of EBP to emphasize the importance of evidence in driving organizational change and innovation.
10. Professional Development Seminar
Course Description:
Program Capstone:
Course Description:
The Capstone course represents the synthesis of MHI course work into a team innovation project. Utilizing the Business Case for Innovation, Capstone teams will build off of the work started in the Design Thinking course. Students will be required to develop an implementation and evaluation plan for their Capstone idea. The final product of the student’s work will be presentation of a final Mindmap documenting the entirety of the groups work, presentation of the process via approved presentation software, a Pecha Kucha representing the story of the groups work, and finally an Elevator Pitch, which is the marketing of the groups work. This course will also address individual student professional and career development.