The Master of Healthcare Innovation (MHI) is a 33-credit (one year) master’s degree program using a hybrid online format open to nursing and non-nursing students working and living at a distance. This program is an initiative led by the ASU College of Nursing & Health Innovation in collaboration with the College of Design and the Hugh Downs School of Human Communications.
MHI offers a futuristic, multidisciplinary, educational approach to the development of healthcare leaders who base decisions upon the best evidence available. Students accepted into this program will learn new processes to develop innovative, immediate solutions to existing or potential healthcare problems in both traditional and non-traditional healthcare organizations. Students will come from a variety of backgrounds including nurse managers, nurses who are poised to move into management, physicians, engineers, dentists, and architects. Students are expected to come with a current or future healthcare problem or product they will work on during the directed study segment of MHI.
This program is designed to bring together information from business, leadership, technology and system design programs in a way that encourages application of this knowledge to create innovative solutions to current healthcare problems. The program will prepare graduates to be leaders who are able to influence the future direction of healthcare and to transform the current system as the means to improve health outcomes and costs for patients and providers, as well as better integrate members of the community into the healthcare system.
Nature of the MHI Educational Experience
Students will approach the study of innovation for the healthcare marketplace with a focus on advancing the system from multiple perspectives -- personal competence for innovation, use of evidence in decision making, remodeling system infrastructures, financing, communication, technology, information management, and policy making. Students will develop competence in the design, application, and testing of innovative processes and products, however, the focus is on preparing students to lead the process of innovation. Innovative thinking, planning, implementing, and evaluation are emphasized throughout the program. The curriculum incorporates the latest trends in healthcare and the opportunity to network with other professionals and faculty across diverse disciplines.
program description
The curriculum uses a “hybrid online format” to distinguish it from a traditional distance learning program. This unique curriculum and hybrid online format allow students face-to-face contact with each other and healthcare leaders during 4 to 5 day immersion sessions that will entail 8-hour days at the beginning of each semester and 2 days mid-semester. The rest of the coursework will be held online using both synchronous (i.e., everyone is online “in class” at the same time) and asynchronous formats using voiced over lectures or discussion boards using the Blackboard course management system.
faculty publications
Managing for Success in Health Care is a unique and innovative new reference manual for practicing nurse and health care managers designed to provide practical, to-the-point guidance on how to face the challenges of health care management in the twenty-first century. This book addresses issues such as increased workloads, budget and staffing cuts, and ongoing legislative changes that have altered the face of health care over the last decade and provides practical advice and information for managers.
