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Healthcare Management
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde |
| Jaar | 2021/22 |
| Vakcode | EBB132A05 |
| Vaknaam | Healthcare Management |
| Niveau(s) | bachelor |
| Voertaal | Engels |
| Periode | semester I b |
| ECTS | 5 |
| Rooster | rooster |
| Uitgebreide vaknaam | Healthcare Management | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leerdoelen | After completion of this course in healthcare management you are able to: 1. Explain why healthcare management exists as a distinctive discipline within management. 2. Understand the systemic challenges healthcare management is facing. 3. Discuss the major defining components of healthcare systems. 4. Outline effective strategies for working with healthcare professionals. 5. Reflect on the relevance of basic management accounting functions in healthcare settings. 6. Argue against which kinds of standards healthcare quality can be evaluated. |
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| Omschrijving | Healthcare settings require specific management strategies and approaches to organizing in certain aspects. Healthcare organizations are professional service firms with most often a multidisciplinary workforce. Professionals require a degree autonomy, which does not mean highly professionalised medical doctors should be unmanaged – It just requires a different type of leadership from managers working in medical contexts. Medical and related knowledge is rapidly progressing and despite all the advances in technology leading to more complicated equipment and refined diagnostic and treatment procedures, at first sight the healthcare process in itself may still be seen as organised comparatively traditionally. A closer look, however, will reveal that healthcare organisations have increasingly implemented structures and explicitness (such as healthcare supply chains, clinical guidelines, electronic healthcare records, outcome monitoring systems) to the healthcare process to increase quality of care. These improvements have also led to new challenges, such as being confronted with the question how to balance investments in transparency and reliability against increased administration costs. Another feature that makes healthcare organisations stand out is they all share to some degree a sense of social mission or purpose concerned with the public good. Unlike most other organisations, healthcare generally aims to both realise this social mission while at the same time responding to financial incentives and behaving entrepreneurially, resulting in sometimes doing things that do not make sense in business terms. The multiple aims and the multiple actors involved pose specific challenges to managers in healthcare settings. This course sets out to explore the key areas in which healthcare management differs from management in other contexts. In this course you will be introduced to the basic components of the healthcare system and how these are organized and managed. You will be stimulated to reflect on the consequences for the quality of care. By working together on a complex real-life case that shows how the different components are related, you will get acquainted with the set-up of healthcare systems and the dynamics evolving from the actors involved and their specific roles. |
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| Uren per week | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Onderwijsvorm | -hoorcollege , -werkcollege | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toetsvorm | -groepsopdracht, -schriftelijk tentamen (open en mc vragen) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vaksoort | bachelor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coördinator | dr. O.P. Roemeling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Docent(en) | T.S. Fokkema , N. Renting ,dr. O.P. Roemeling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opmerkingen | For more information contact the coordinator: n.renting@rug.nl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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