Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management-Uni

This programmes aims to educate healtcare professionals who can initiate, develop and manage healthcare innovations.

How can we implement homecare technologies effectively and efficiently? How can we optimise the respective involvement of state and private players in healthcare? How best to guarantee universal access to a fair package of health services? And how to maintain quality while containing costs? The key to all these issues is the need for innovation. Gaining new knowlegde, applying existing knowledge in a new way, developing new tasks and activities - this programme brings together both theory and practice in its focus on innovation. And it does so on all possible levels, from micro -to macro-level, from individual organisations to national healthcare systems, from patient relations to the process of caretaking. You learn how to analyse situations in which innovations are needed, come up with innovative solutions, implement and manage these solutions, and critically evaluate and improve them. The programma also emphasises the importance of practical, hands-on training in conducting your own research.

The programme will give you:
- solid insight into all aspects of healthcare innovation at all levels, i.e. policy, ethical, organisational, managerial, economic and substantive aspects at the individual, organisational, regional, national and international levels
- the competences need to play a key role in initiating, governing and managing healthcare innovations
- the ability to critically analyse health systems and situations and to translate the relults into innovative solutions

This a one-year full-time or two-year part-time programme taught in English.

Contact
Student Recruitment Office
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Universiteit Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: + 31 43 388 5798
E-mail: study-fhml@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Internet: www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fhml/masters

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