Health Entrepreneurship and Innovation (BAS)

Prepares students to use best practices for health communication that promote consumer health literacy.

Philosophy of science and its application to health and healing paradigms. Employs selected schools of thought and individual philosophers within philosophy of science to closely examine health and healing paradigms. Discusses concepts such as \

Provides foundational knowledge for leading health innovation. Organized around the Seven Pillars of Innovation: innovation process, leadership structure, outcomes, evidence-based practice, finance, policy, and technology and communication. Emphasizes principles of health innovation, in addition to characteristics, skills and knowledge required for the innovator.

Methods of clinical and scientific inquiry. Focuses on the application of an evidence-based practice approach.

Legal theories, ethical issues, and regulatory climate affecting business policies and decisions.

Critical examination of moral questions arising in biomedical contexts, particularly due to new technologies and scientific discoveries.

Integrates the theory and practice of ethics within health-related disciplines and the application of bioethics by health science professionals, including health disparities.

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Examines moral theories applied to cases of corporate responsibility, property rights, environment, fairness, profit, employee rights, and responsibilities.

Introduces understanding and developing leadership skills, including an examination of leadership theories and models from multidisciplinary and crosscultural points of view, an assessment of the student's leadership capabilities, and practical applications to improve individual leadership capabilities.

Processes and methods to ensure current organizational success and sustainable relevance in changing domestic and global environments. Presents an introduction of strategic management with primary emphasis on situation analysis, strategy formulation, and long-term strategy evaluation. Covers the strategic leadership context using external and internal analysis to inform functional and competitive strategies that can be applied across multiple sectors and industries.

The leader's role in bringing about significant organizational and societal change with special attention to group and organizational behavior dynamics, establishing a vision, mobilizing and empowering individuals and groups, and assessing outcomes of the change process in a variety of settings.

Innovation perspective on policy decision making in the health care environment. This perspective views policy-making as a fluctuating, dynamic and evolving process as seen through a lens of innovation principles. Explores the relationship between politics and policy and discusses factors influencing policy development. Identifies methods to formulate and implement policy and presents models to evaluate, analyze and modify health care policy.

Principles of facilitation that promote and enable the implementation of innovation to achieve outcomes. This approach identifies facilitation as requiring collaboration, continuous evaluation, and a focus on identifying and measuring health outcomes. Discusses characteristics of effective teams, innovation leadership behaviors that impact change, and involvement of end users. Compares and contrasts traditional project management processes with innovative facilitation techniques.

Investigates the essential elements of systems thinking as a framework for innovation in addressing current and future issues in health care. Demonstrates systems thinking to present and future problems in health care and utilizes the knowledge and understanding of behavioral and learning styles to facilitate innovation in diverse systems. Stresses the importance of collaboration to the systems perspective, in addition to the value of individual worldviews.

Explores the role of technology in achieving the Triple Aim: improved quality, improved patient experience and decreased cost. Compares and contrasts tools of technology that hold the potential to advance innovation in health care. Examines the relationship among the users, their behaviors and technology and how this interaction advances communication, automation, organization and standardization.

Focuses on effective communication practices in health-related fields, emphasizing communicating professionally with both scholarly and workplace audiences. In addition to providing a foundation in workplace communication, emphasizes information and technology literacy to help students become proficient in collecting, analyzing, interpreting and synthesizing information using appropriate tools, sources and styles.

Strategies, techniques and genres for developing and presenting information intended for business and other workplace audiences.

Introductory probability, descriptive statistics, sampling distributions, parameter estimation, tests of hypotheses, chi-square tests, regression analysis, analysis of variance, and nonparametric tests.

Basic concepts and methods of statistics, including descriptive statistics, significance tests, estimation, sampling, and correlation.

Descriptive and inferential statistical methods for analysis of social data. Computer applications.

Introduces statistical techniques for the social sciences, including the role and rationale of statistics, descriptive measures, associational measures, and inferential statistics.