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: Innovation
Innovation
Status: Health Technology
Health Technology
Course·7 hours
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4.0
·Reviewed Jan 17, 2023
Great course! I wish more were focused in behavioral economics in health care.
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 4, 2020
this was a great course which consisted of both economics as well as health which made it more interesting
4.0
·Reviewed 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.
5.0
·Reviewed 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.
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 23, 2022
coursera is best platform. And this course was very productive.
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 14, 2020
Great course for understanding behavioral economics!
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 20, 2018
The best course on Healthcare Management ever!!! Kudos to Penn Med Wharton Online team for putting together such an amazing course!!!
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 12, 2023
Great content and delivery. While it is healthcare focused, the concepts can be applied to other businesses as well.
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 29, 2020
as a physician it helped a lot to understand human behaviors with health choices . it was a great course
4.0
·Reviewed May 9, 2020
Week 2 is too general and badly structured compared to other weeks.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 14, 2020
Great Course that provided me a lot of good insights. Thumbs up!
4.0
·Reviewed 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.
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Alia
5.0
·Reviewed May 9, 2020
I really enjoyed the expertise of the professors and lecturers of this course. I did not entirely know what health care innovation entailed before I signed up for the course, but I can say I have learned a lot after completing it. Thank you University of Pennsylvania and Coursera for providing this in an online capacity!
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Jacques
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 10, 2020
I really enjoyed every part of every course within this specialisation. It was extremely beneficial and informative, and I feel like it will be a great primer/supplement to my further studies. Thank you to all the professors of this course for taking your time to create such a valuable resource. Cheers.
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Matthew
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 21, 2018
The best course on Healthcare Management ever!!! Kudos to Penn Med Wharton Online team for putting together such an amazing course!!!
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Julie
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 21, 2021
Very knowledgeable and interesting sessions presented by instructors who are clear and give good examples.
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Ekass
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 5, 2020
this was a great course which consisted of both economics as well as health which made it more interesting
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Pierre
5.0
·Reviewed Dec 15, 2020
Great course for understanding behavioral economics!
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Celine
4.0
·Reviewed Nov 3, 2019
behavioural economics part was great, module 2 was not so great
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Padmanabhan
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 4, 2020
The Course on Behavioral Economics was very helpful in understanding methodology adopted in understanding Human behavior in formulating policies in benefit of society at large. classic examples have been given with illustration to understand the importance of Behavioral Economics in various Health related issues. The course has also highlighted on countries like U.S, UK, Australia and Singapore who have studied and experimented to formulate policies for the benefit of society.
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Teresa
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 2, 2020
This course has been truly enlightening. The methodology allows the adaptation to a busy, committed professional life, that for me happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. All 4 weeks courses were innovators and visionaries. I would like to underline the Behavioral Economics that for me was a new and very exciting area with important and useful application.
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Joseph
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 3, 2019
All the instructors were presented compelling evidence and information to help me understand how and why healthcare innovation is so vitally important. I will take what I have learned in this course with me for my entire career. Thank you to Penn!
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Kevin
5.0
·Reviewed May 12, 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.
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Christopher
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 15, 2025
Excellent intro to healthcare innovation. Thought-provoking coverage of some of the main areas including operations, evaluation, and behavioral economics.
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Timo
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 13, 2023
Great content and delivery. While it is healthcare focused, the concepts can be applied to other businesses as well.
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Sean
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 1, 2022
Intuitive and engaging. High remarks to the instructors condensing their lectures into the coursera platform.
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Samma
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 30, 2020
as a physician it helped a lot to understand human behaviors with health choices . it was a great course
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Mahnoor
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 24, 2022
coursera is best platform. And this course was very productive.
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claudio
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 15, 2020
Great Course that provided me a lot of good insights. Thumbs up!
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Seohee
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 9, 2022
 I am very thankful for passionate professors like you!Â
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Rafael
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 12, 2019
Excellent, wishing to find more courses like this one.