| Learning objectives |
- 1. Demonstrate an understanding for central organizational
theories and concepts and their relevance in analyzing and
improving healthcare innovation processes
- 2. Identify, describe and define a healthcare innovation case
and identify relevant organizational challenges
- 3. Make a theory-driven analysis of the healthcare innovation
case using organizational theories from at least two different
organizational theory agendas
- 4. Evaluate these organizational theories’ possibilities and
limitations for designing and organizing healthcare innovations
based on your case-analysis.
- 5. Demonstrate a high level of command of the
syllabus
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| Course prerequisites |
This is a mandatory course for the MSc in
Business Administration and Innovation in Health Care.
To sign up send a 1-page motivational letter and a grade transcript
to ily.stu@cbs.dk before the registration deadline for elective
courses. You may find the registration deadlines on
my.cbs.dk (
https://studentcbs.sharepoint.com/graduate/pages/registration-for-electives.aspx
)
Please also remember to sign up through the online
registration. |
| Examination |
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The
Organization of Health Care Innovation:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Home assignment - written product |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Size of written product |
Max. 10 pages |
| Assignment type |
Case based assignment |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date
and time. |
| Grading scale |
7-point grading scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and second internal
examiner |
| Exam period |
Winter |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If a student did not pass the
regular exam, he/she must make a new revised assignment (confer
advice from the examiner) and hand it in on a new deadline
specified by the secretariat.
If a student did not hand in the assignment due to illness or for
other reasons, he/she will be able to hand it in on a new
deadline.
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Description of the exam
procedure
The examination takes place through an individually written
10-page assignment in which the student is expected to apply and
operationalize theories and concepts from syllabus in relation to a
healthcare innovation case of own choice. In the assignment the
student is expected to give a theory-enlightened case-description,
an analysis of the case's innovation challenges, and a
discussion of possible improvement strategies. For these purposes,
the student is expected to describe and operationalize analytical
perspectives (models, arguments, analytical frames, concepts) from
different organizational theory
agendas.
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| Course content, structure and pedagogical
approach |
|
Health care innovation takes place in organizations in
which managers, employees, patients, technologies, rules and
practices constitute the organizational conditions for the design,
implementation, adaptation and success of the innovation. The main
objective of this course is to teach students how to understand and
analyze such organizational conditions and contexts for health care
innovation and become acquainted with the practical value of
organizational analysis for healthcare innovation processes. The
course introduces core themes of contemporary organization theory
and relates each of these to the design and organization of
innovations in healthcare. More specifically, the students will be
presented with some of the most important organizational conditions
for healthcare innovation including formal structure, culture,
professions, user-involvement, infrastructure, technology and
practice. Together these organizational themes are important for
understanding how healthcare organizations work and how
organizational processes and practices are key elements in
organizing health care innovation.
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| Description of the teaching methods |
| The course combines classical lectures, case
presentations, group work and online formats. The lectures require
students to have read the course material before entering class.
Moreover, the students are divided into groups that are each to
find a healthcare innovation case to illustrate and discuss one of
the organizational themes presented during the course. The
selection of case-material will be approved by the course teachers.
Group work on cases takes place online before each lecture where
the groups are expected to work with the day's case and
curriculum. Group presentations are taken place in class. |
| Feedback during the teaching period |
| The course is designed to be highly interactive,
and teacher as well as peer feedback is given continuously.
Feedback takes place in class during groupwork, case presentation
and dialog, for instance as peer and teacher feedback on group
presentations, and in an ongoing online discussion forum on Canvas
where texts and cases are discussed. Each group further receive
teacher feedback in relation to their selection of case before
presentation. Moreover, exam preparation in the final sessions
include peer and teacher feedback on case-selection and ideas
for/structure of exam assignment. The teachers are available for
online communication, and office hours are further used to maintain
continuous feedback. |
| Student workload |
| confrontation hours |
32 hours |
| reading hours |
75 hours |
| project/class presentation |
35 hours |
| final paper |
20 hours |
| exam preparation |
65 hours |
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| Expected literature |
|
to be announced
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