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Health Care Innovation

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.

Status: Operational Performance Management
Status: Qualitative Research
Course7 hours

Featured reviews

R

4.0Reviewed 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.

VW

4.0Reviewed Jul 14, 2019

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

EA

4.0Reviewed Jun 9, 2020

Weeks 1 and 3 were really interesting and the instructors were very informative. For the other 2 weeks, the topics and instructors were not as interesting. But overall was a pretty informative course.

SA

5.0Reviewed Apr 29, 2020

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

CE

5.0Reviewed Feb 14, 2025

Excellent intro to healthcare innovation. Thought-provoking coverage of some of the main areas including operations, evaluation, and behavioral economics.

CH

4.0Reviewed Nov 2, 2019

behavioural economics part was great, module 2 was not so great

RH

5.0Reviewed Feb 11, 2019

Excellent, wishing to find more courses like this one.

MA

5.0Reviewed Jul 20, 2018

The best course on Healthcare Management ever!!! Kudos to Penn Med Wharton Online team for putting together such an amazing course!!!

MN

5.0Reviewed Nov 23, 2022

coursera is best platform. And this course was very productive.

AK

4.0Reviewed Feb 7, 2023

More time and details would be highly appreciated, instead of rushing through the complicated concepts

KM

5.0Reviewed May 11, 2020

Very good examples of innovative solutions to health care and highlighting behavioral economics in the last part gives us an overview of possible solutions to policy making.

ES

5.0Reviewed Jun 4, 2020

this was a great course which consisted of both economics as well as health which made it more interesting

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