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University of Pennsylvania

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: Process Improvement and Optimization
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.

SE

5.0Reviewed Jun 30, 2022

Intuitive and engaging. High remarks to the instructors condensing their lectures into the coursera platform.

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.

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!!!

CH

4.0Reviewed Nov 2, 2019

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

JS

5.0Reviewed Jan 21, 2021

Very knowledgeable and interesting sessions presented by instructors who are clear and give good examples.

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.

TU

5.0Reviewed Aug 12, 2023

Great content and delivery. While it is healthcare focused, the concepts can be applied to other businesses as well.

KR

4.0Reviewed Jan 17, 2023

Great course! I wish more were focused in behavioral economics in health care.

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