Innovation in Healthcare Organizations

Uitgebreide vaknaam	Innovation in Healthcare Organizations
Leerdoelen	Upon completion of the course the student is able to: 1. Describe key strategic issues in health care and explain how they relate to health care management and organization. 2. Generate an overview of managerial innovations aimed at improving health care performance. 3. Collect and combine secondary data from various sources guided by a model and interpret the data in its health care context. 4. Describe the content and process characteristics of a particular managerial innovation in a health care setting. 5. Apply relevant theories to assess the (potential) impact of a healthcare innovation on stakeholders, given their power, interests and concerns. 6. Design an implementation approach for a healthcare innovation that takes the context into consideration. 7. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of a proposed implementation approach. 8. Communicate the results of 5, 6, and 7 in written and oral form.
Omschrijving	The introductory weeks of this course offer an overview of the strategic context of managerial (i.e., non-clinical) innovations in healthcare and discusses a variety of such organizational, technological, and human resource innovations. The analytic focus is on these innovations' (potential) contributions to and implications for healthcare management and performance. You will evaluate the intended contributions of a specific innovation to strategic key debates in healthcare at large. The second part of the course addresses the particularities of stakeholder management in healthcare innovations. Guided by frameworks in the literature, you will learn to systematically identify and analyse the stakeholders of a managerial healthcare innovation. You will explore how specific innovations can be aligned with stakeholders’ power, interests and concerns, and what the risks and implications for the implementation process are. In the final part of the course, you will get acquainted with healthcare specific implementation models. Based on the foregoing analyses and supported by these implementation models, you will learn to design an implementation approach that takes the specific characteristics of the healthcare context, the innovation content and the implementation process into consideration.
Uren per week	4
Onderwijsvorm	hoor- en werkcolleges
Toetsvorm	opdracht(en), presentatie(s), schriftelijk tentamen met open vragen
Vaksoort	master
Coördinator	prof. dr. A. Boonstra
Docent(en)	prof. dr. A. Boonstra ,dr. M.A.G. van Offenbeek
Verplichte literatuur	Titel Auteur ISBN Prijs Key Debates in Health Care, 2010, London, McGrawHill/Open University Press Taylor, G., H. Hawley 9780335223947 ca. €  30,00 Selected papers on stakeholders in healthcare innovation and implementation models Various Selected papers on strategy and innovations in health care management and organization Various
Entreevoorwaarden	A BSc in the area of business or organization studies. For others an intake is required.
Opmerkingen	Secretary: Mirjam Berghuis, email m.berghuis@rug.nl, phone +31 (0)50 363 3453
Opgenomen in	Opleiding Jaar Periode Type Courses open to Exchange Students (MSc)  ( Courses open to Exchange Students (MSc) without limited access ) 1 semester I a keuze MSc BA - Health  (basisprogramma MSc BA Health) 1 semester I a verplicht