ADVANCED HEALTH SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION
Focuses on health innovation and leadership, integrating systems thinking and relevant theories to advance innovation and achieve sustainable change in contemporary health settings. Leaders apply and synthesize theories of leadership, innovation, informatics, and business concepts to complex healthcare issues to improve outcomes. Utilizes current and emerging issues, theories, and case studies to explore attributes of innovative leaders, emerging models of care, innovation models, design and adoption, mergers and affiliations in healthcare, and entrepreneurship.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the importance of evidence-based innovation in healthcare. Audience: Graduate 2. Compare and contrast leadership theories and models of innovation. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe characteristics and skills of innovative leaders. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze an emerging innovation in healthcare. Audience: Graduate 5. Analyze the culture and organizational design (infrastructure) of a healthcare system or department to support innovation and quality improvement. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify strategies to increase the adoption of evidence-based healthcare innovations. Audience: Graduate 7. Apply the principles of leadership, business, and healthcare economics in the development of a new innovative product, program, or service that will improve the quality of care delivery for a specific population, program, or system. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the importance of evidence-based innovation in healthcare. Audience: Graduate 2. Compare and contrast leadership theories and models of innovation. Audience: Graduate 3. Describe characteristics and skills of innovative leaders. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze an emerging innovation in healthcare. Audience: Graduate 5. Analyze the culture and organizational design (infrastructure) of a healthcare system or department to support innovation and quality improvement. Audience: Graduate 6. Identify strategies to increase the adoption of evidence-based healthcare innovations. Audience: Graduate 7. Apply the principles of leadership, business, and healthcare economics in the development of a new innovative product, program, or service that will improve the quality of care delivery for a specific population, program, or system. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027