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Innovation in Healthcare Organizations
| Faculteit | Economie en Bedrijfskunde |
| Jaar | 2017/18 |
| Vakcode | EBM047A05 |
| Vaknaam | Innovation in Healthcare Organizations |
| Niveau(s) | master, uitwisseling |
| Voertaal | Engels |
| Periode | semester II a |
| ECTS | 5 |
| Rooster | rooster |
| 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 organisation. 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. Systematically assess the (potential) impact of such an innovation on health care management and performance. 6. Explicate the assumptions made during an impact assessment, e.g. in terms of contextual and process conditions. 7. Review the strenghts and limitations of an impact assessment in the light of data quality and availability. 8. Design and orally present a poster to communicate the results and relevance of a qualitative impact assessment. |
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| Omschrijving | This course offers an overview of the strategic context and content of managerial innovations in health care. Organisational, technological, and human resource innovations will be covered. The analytic focus is on these innovations' (potential) contributions to and implications for health care management and performance. Guided by an 'open systems'-change and an innovation framework, students will evaluate the intended contributions of specific innovations to strategic key debates in health care and analyse their implications for health care organisation and performance. They will analyse how specific innovations can be aligned with organizational aspect systems, what managerial transformation it requires, and explore implementation issues involved. This course is part of the focus area 'Healthcare Management'. When you focus your MSc on healthcare management subjects you will be awarded an official acknowledgement on your diploma, improving and broadening your career opportunities in the healthcare sector. Prerequisites are mentioned in the Teaching and Examiniation Regulations: 'Focus areas in the master programmes'. |
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| Uren per week | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Onderwijsvorm | gecombineerde hoor-/werkcolleges | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Toetsvorm |
opdracht(en), presentatie(s), schriftelijk tentamen met open vragen
(Intermediary written exam of the basic literature. The final oral exam consists of a poster presentation with underlying document.) |
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| Vaksoort | master | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coördinator | dr. M.A.G. van Offenbeek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Docent(en) | prof. dr. A. Boonstra ,dr. M.A.G. van Offenbeek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Entreevoorwaarden | A BSc in the area of business or organisation studies. For others an intake is required, and there is a maximum capacity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opmerkingen | Secretary: Mirjam Berghuis, email m.berghuis@rug.nl, phone +31 (0)50 363 3453 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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