Health Care Innovation

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Health Care Innovation

This course is part of The Business of Health Care Specialization

Instructors: Amber Bird

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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7 hours to complete

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

305 reviews

7 hours to complete

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There are 3 modules in this course

In this course, you’ll learn the foundational economic theories behind health care innovation and how to optimize your own health care practice or organization. Designed to help you gain a practical understanding of innovation techniques, operations management, and value and quality in the health care setting, this course will help you apply these frameworks to assess health care practices and apply innovation while managing risk. You’ll also explore the best practices for evaluating one’s innovative practices, using real-life examples of success to see the concepts in action. By the end of this course, you’ll have honed your skills in optimizing health care operations, and be able to develop the right set of evaluations and questions to achieve best innovative practices within your organization.

Important Program Note: A revised course version is set to launch on or near July 1, 2025. If you are a student with late work, deadlines will be reset and the content will be updated.Wharton professor, Christian Terwiesch welcomes you to the course, then Profs. Sarah Rottenberg and Roy Rosin focus on the discovery phase of the innovation process. Prof. Rosin discusses strategies—including ethnography or contextual inquiry—for gaining insight into the scope and parameters of challenging problems. He introduces a framework for crafting an effective hypothesis. And Prof. Rottenberg explores techniques for seeing and documenting what others have missed.

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11 videos2 assignments

11 videos Total 93 minutes

Welcome to the Course 1 minute
Introducing Innovation 14 minutes
How to See What Other People Have Missed 7 minutes
Beyond On-Site Interviews 5 minutes
Ethnography for Innovation 8 minutes
Understanding Where Health Happens 5 minutes
The Tools of Ethnography 10 minutes
How to Focus Your Attention 10 minutes
Whose World do We Need to Understand? 10 minutes
Inclusive Design and Co-Design 11 minutes
Crafting a Hypothesis 11 minutes

2 assignments Total 60 minutes

Practice Quiz #1 30 minutes
Module 1 Quiz 30 minutes

In this module, Prof. Terwiesch explains foundational concepts of health care operations and ways to use them to optimize health care delivery. You will examine the provider-patient relationship and learn how a different types of performance metrics can improve patient-facing performance measures. You will enumerate various types of inefficiency, such as waste, variability, and inflexibility. You will learn techniques to optimize performance and service by gauging flow rate, flow time, and inventory. And you will learn to map health care processes. By the end of this module, you will be equipped to analyze the financial viability of a health care provider using and create a framework to assess and optimize performance.

What's included

9 videos2 assignments

9 videos Total 83 minutes

Introduction: The Patient Perspective 8 minutes
Introduction: The Provider Perspective 6 minutes
Trade-offs, Strategy, System Inhibitors 10 minutes
Inventory, Flow Rate, and Flow Time 6 minutes
Mapping Processes with Flow Diagrams 7 minutes
Lean Operations and Waste 10 minutes
The Curse of Variability 11 minutes
Financial Viability 13 minutes
Finding the Value Drivers 12 minutes

2 assignments Total 60 minutes

Practice Quiz #2 30 minutes
Module 2 Quiz 30 minutes

In this module, Drs. Neha Patel and Lee Fleisher define value, survey methods for assessing value and quality, and introduce the organizations that set quality standards. Dr. Fleisher and guest presenter Dr. Amber Bird explain the importance of health equity and social determinants of health in determining quality of care, patient experience, and patient outcomes. Dr. Fleisher also examines acute care at home, and opportunities for artificial intelligence.

What's included

8 videos2 assignments

8 videos Total 70 minutes

Understanding Quality in the Present 9 minutes
Defining Value, Part I 12 minutes
Defining Value, Part II 7 minutes
The Role of Equity in Quality 6 minutes
An Intentional Equity Initiative 5 minutes
Social Determinants: Improving Health Rather than Health Care 7 minutes
Acute Hospital at Home 11 minutes
Opportunities for Artificial Intelligence 14 minutes

2 assignments Total 60 minutes

Practice Quiz #3 30 minutes
Module 3 Quiz 30 minutes

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Amber Bird

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Reviewed on Nov 6, 2019

I found the course helpful overall, I found the 3rd module to be the most difficult and hard to follow and felt there was a lot of information without real world examples.

Reviewed on Apr 29, 2020

as a physician it helped a lot to understand human behaviors with health choices . it was a great course

Reviewed on Jul 14, 2019

Great frameworks and solid content. A good course as part of a broader foundation.

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