The Master of Healthcare Innovation is a 31 credit hour professional master’s degree program designed to be completed as a five-semester program of study. The core program requires 28 credit hours of coursework, and a 3 hour capstone.
Core Coursework:
- HCINNOV 7440: Innovation in High Performing Organizations (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7441: Innovation Leadership: Leading from Within (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7442: Building a Culture of Innovation in Health Systems (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7460: Enhancing Communication in the Innovation System (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7500: Healthcare Policy and Innovation (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7520: Utilizing Technology to Measure Outcomes in Health systems (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7521: Best Practices In Organizational Operations (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7522: Fundamentals of Design Thinking in Healthcare (3 credits)
- HCINNOV 7780: Evidence-Based Practice for Innovation in Organizations (3 credit hours)
- HCINNOV 7595: Capstone (3 credits)
- HCINNOV 7596: Professional Development Seminar (1 credit)
HCINNOV 7440 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.
HCINNOV 7441 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.
HCINNOV 7442 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.
HCINNOV 7460 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.
HCINNOV 7500 Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Course Description: This course introduces the foundations of healthcare policy at the local, state, national, and international level and explores the associations between policy and healthcare innovation.
HCINNOV 7520 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.
HCINNOV 7521 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.
HCINNOV 7522 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.
HCINNOV 7780 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.
HCINNOV 7596 Professional Development Seminar
Course Description: This course will address individual student professional and career development. Students will develop a roadmap for their professional development and engage in regular discussions with prominent healthcare and innovation leaders.
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, and finally an Elevator Pitch, which is the marketing of the groups work. This course will also address individual student professional and career development.