Online Courses in Health Care Innovation

What can you learn online about health care innovation? Improving health care can mean taking small steps to address root causes and growing your impact as you gather evidence of success.

Innovation can be as simple as laminated wayfinding cards for volunteers to help guide patients around a VA hospital. And it may be revising protocols for appointment scheduling, starting with a study of current practices. Penn MEHP online education learners have used course activities to begin improving health care in these ways and more.

Improving Health Care

Penn’s online education in health care innovation is designed for professionals looking to make a difference. Physicians, nurses, care coordinators, managers, directors, executives, and consultants may select the immediate, short-term learning of professional development courses. Or they may want to build a network of innovative thinkers over a longer, more extensive online Master’s degree in health care innovation.

The courses and curriculum provide context on health care that is unparalleled.

Improving the complex system of health care requires multiple perspectives and a collaborative effort. Develop skills in innovation and leadership with a network of change agents through the Master of Health Care Innovation. Or discover tools to implement now within your workplace through Professional Development courses.

Faculty Spotlight

MEHP’s Online Education programs bring together world-renowned faculty in health policy, innovation, operations, behavioral economics, and leadership to share insights and offer tools for improving health care. Learn through curated sets of engaging brief lectures by Zeke Emanuel, Roy Rosin, Christian Terwiesch, Kevin Volpp, and others from the Perelman School of Medicine, Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, Wharton, Penn Law, and the School of Nursing.

Lee A. Fleisher, MD

I believe that obtaining a sustainable health system which achieves the triple aim is only achievable through the measurement of our practice. I am concerned that simply focusing on metrics could lead to perverse incentives and therefore measurement must be framed within social norms and focus on...

Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, PhD

I believe equity can be best achieved with customized approaches that mitigate the “isms” where we live and work.

Sarah Rottenberg, MA

Design can transform healthcare products and systems for the better. Building empathy for stakeholders, developing new ideas for products, services and experiences, and prototyping those ideas can lead to the kinds of innovations that radically improve healthcare delivery.

Roy Rosin, MBA

In my role at Penn Medicine, I work to rapidly design, test, and implement high impact health care delivery practices. I work with thought leaders across the health system to turn ideas into measurable impact.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD

Physicians, nurses, managers, policymakers, consultants, and others are urgently trying to transform the health care system. Through these online educational programs, they will be able to create and implement patient-centric and efficient models of care.

Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

Students in this program will get a rigorous foundation in a number of disciplines central to understanding how to innovate and to do so in a way that is measurable and impactful.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA

I think it is critically important for those working in health care or population health to understand how policy can be used to improve health equity.

Christian Terwiesch, PhD

All of us in the health care profession share a common goal: to improve the care that patients receive. To do so, economic aspects such as payments, behavioral aspects such as patient psychology, and business aspects such as the clinical operations all need to be carefully designed.

Faculty News: Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, PhD

Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, PhD is a leading voice in diversity, equity, and inclusion. When the COVID-19 pandemic turned a spotlight on issues of racial and economic disparity, the media turned to him as a resource. And, whether he is speaking to a state health association or advising Fortune 500 companies, Prof. Jenkins focuses on the tools and techniques to create a culture of inclusion. Explore ways you can address bringing equity to action in his course, From Health Disparities to Health Equity.

Master of Health Care Innovation

Develop expertise and build a network to advance health care innovation with an online Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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