Innovation In Health Care Education: A Call To Action

Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for innovative solutions. And yet, according to our content analysis of top U.S. health administration schools and a recent article in the Lancet, our educational systems focus their curricula on isolated, theoretical subjects, such as analytics and quantitative problem solving, rather than the team-oriented, practical problem-solving skills required for innovation. All too often, when graduates of these programs enter the workforce, they find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges for innovation of 21st century health care. The following blog post examines the current educational gaps in traditional health care administration and efforts underway to address them. One such effort is the Global Educators Network for Health Care Innovation Education (GENiE) Group, created by Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor, Regina Herzlinger, whose members are working to make innovation a central part of the education of the future leaders in health care. Interviews with Global CEOs In 2012, Regina Herzlinger worked with Scriplogix to conduct interviews with 58 leading global health care sector CEOs about their future needs. A quarter of these CEOs noted that they were so dissatisfied with traditional health care administration education that they have developed training programs of their own...
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