Certificate in Heroic Leadership in Healthcare
Online Certificate
Designed for all healthcare professionals, this program provides you with an in-depth accounting of your lives as leaders. Over the course of 8 weeks, world-renowned author Chris Lowney and senior executives in healthcare and leadership will bring clarity into your everyday lives, strengthen your capacity to connect with co-workers, teams, and patients, and make deep connections between personal purpose and workplace mission.
Healthcare Innovation
Certificate in Healthcare Innovation
Online Certificate
Healthcare is constantly evolving — our program helps learners develop an innovative mindset to identify and develop leading-edge ideas. Using real-world examples and leveraging industry expertise, the Certificate in Healthcare Innovation drives innovation by fostering a forward-thinking culture that empowers care teams to explore new ideas. This ground-breaking program will help you understand how your organization is affected by trends (including financial, technology, regulatory, patient, practitioner, delivery modes, and methods) so that you can apply innovation in the most impactful way and learn to implement improvements on a larger scale if successful. The eight-week online program carries 16 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
Duration:
8 weeks
Price:
$2,995
CEUs:
16
Partner:
Drive Innovation in Healthcare Through New Solutions
Innovation can take many different shapes in healthcare. It can be as simple as changing a form to check out patients five minutes faster or as complex as immunotherapy that targets specific types of cancer cells. Any development and change in practice that leads to improvements in health outcomes and patient experiences are healthcare innovations. With healthcare costs skyrocketing and the U.S. having some of the highest per capita expenditures in the world, healthcare leaders are seeking new ways to create more effective and efficient healthcare delivery models.
The Certificate in Healthcare Innovation program, co-developed by OpusVi and Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University (ASU), empowers healthcare professionals to take on complex industry challenges, develop new solutions, and drive innovation at an organizational level.
95.1%
of graduates learned to create a healthcare strategy plan that includes key action items to deliver intended business results
98.3%
of graduates agreed that content was presented with a flow that facilitated understanding and built connections across topics
96.7%
of graduates said that their expert instructor was accessible and responsive to their need
16 CNE Units:
and badges are awarded upon graduation.Learner Outcomes
Upon completing our Certificate in Healthcare Innovation program, you will be able to:
- Describe key trends in the healthcare industry
- Recognize key environmental constraints impacting healthcare providers and healthcare service companies
- Identify opportunities for innovation in the healthcare industry
- Apply and summarize effective validation strategies for innovation opportunities
- Identify ways to turn innovative ideas into valuable strategies and business models
- Learn about the strategic planning models and payoff measurements for new innovation projects
- Evaluate resource needs for new innovation projects
- Outline techniques for encouraging others to adopt new innovations
- Create an innovative healthcare strategy plan that includes keys to delivering intended results
System Outcomes
- Technology and data will be key to creating the innovations that move modern healthcare forward as healthcare leaders look for ways to solve more complex health challenges. We encourage you to think about problems you are encountering in your healthcare organization and will help you to find solutions.
- Ideally, innovation involves following a methodology that incorporates qualitative and quantitative techniques for design of a new value proposition and business model. Additionally, plans for execution must consider the customer and key stakeholders journey to adoption of the innovation and the change they must personally go through.
- Historically, the healthcare workforce has operated in a fragmented, bricks and mortar based environment. Roles were specialized, decisions were hierarchical, and staff worked together with others trained in their functional area. In the future, a digital, connected ecosystem will fuse the physical, digital, and biologic worlds impacting professions, enterprises and economies. High performing networks and market places will require democratization of data, new decision making models and collaboration. Design of future workforce capabilities and skill sets must be intentional and aligned with new digital operating models.
Learner FAQs
Shared Common Competencies
- Leadership
- Communication
- Quality and Patient Experience
- Mental Health, Substance Abuse
- Resilience
- Cultural Engagement
Specialty Areas Supported
Unit-Specific Pathways
- MedSurg-Tele
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU)
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Emergency Room (ER)
- Labor & Delivery (L&D)
- Mother Baby Care (MBC)
- Operating Room (OR)
- Cath Lab
- Hospice
- Behavioral Health
- Critical Access Hospitals
Specific MedSurg Competencies
- Surgical Care
- Integumentary
- Respiratory
- Hematology
- Cardiovascular
- Gastrointestinal
- Renal
- Endocrine
- Neurological
FAQs
We are your partners from start to finish. View this FAQ for more information on who brings what to the table.
Curriculum
Our Certificate in Healthcare Innovation will help you drive innovation through strategic planning skills and implementing new solution models that deliver results.
- Unit 1: Megatrends in Healthcare
- Unit 2: Ideation Best Practices
- Unit 3: Effective Validation
- Unit 4: Understanding Resource Constraints
- Unit 5: Planning for New Innovations
- Unit 6: Creating Valuable Advantages
- Unit 7: Winning Adoption for New Ideas
- Unit 8: Delivering Rapid Results
Outcomes
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Embracing an open innovation approach to generate new ideas and solutions benefits every organization. With an innovative mindset, you will be able to include a wider community in solving challenges.
Upon completing our Certificate in Healthcare Innovation program, you will be able to:
- Describe key trends in the healthcare industry
- Recognize key environmental constraints impacting healthcare providers and healthcare service companies
- Identify opportunities for innovation in the healthcare industry
- Apply and summarize effective validation strategies for innovation opportunities
- Identify ways to turn innovative ideas into valuable strategies and business models
- Learn about the strategic planning models and payoff measurements for new innovation projects
- Evaluate resource needs for new innovation projects
- Outline techniques for encouraging others to adopt new innovations
- Create an innovative healthcare strategy plan that includes keys to delivering intended results
Why Innovation?
- Innovation requires taking risks, thinking outside the box, and being open to new ideas. It also calls for a commitment to continuous learning, as the world is constantly changing and evolving. For any organization to be successful in the long term, they need to embrace innovation and make it a core part of their business strategy.
How do systems benefit?
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Future innovators in healthcare are professionals at all levels advocating for change in the organization. If you want to find new ideas or improve processes to advance quality, enhance the patient experience, expand safety initiatives, increase efficiency, and reduce costs, this program might be a good fit.
Learners that could especially benefit from this certificate program are:
- Executive leadership
- Mid- to senior-level managers
- Personnel with budget, management, or team-level decision responsibility
- Management candidates who want to fast-track their careers by proving to be efficient innovators
- Professionals interested in leadership to whom undertaking this program can provide a portfolio development piece
- Front-line staff with ideas for process improvement who want to learn to put their plans into action and present their ideas to leadership
Among other roles, our graduates work as:
- Clinic Manager/Lead
- Senior Infection Control Officer
- Director/Manager of Medical Operations
- Director, Marketing and Media
- Project Manager
- Technical Coordinator
- Researcher
- RN
- Clinical Informaticist
- Commercial Specialist
- Service Level Specialist
- Lab Assistant
- IT Auditor
Dr. Sylvain Trepanier, DNP, RN, CENP, FAONL, FAAN
SVP, System Chief Nursing Officer - Providence
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry was facing workforce challenges. Our partnership with OpusVi™ is helping to support caregivers at our family of organizations through quality education and development so that we can be part of the solution. Investing in professional development for the nation’s caregivers will assist us in stabilizing the workforce.
Andy Brailo
Chief Customer Officer, Premier Inc.
In our network of valued customers, the impact of the healthcare staffing shortage is palpable. We witness the challenges our partners face as they navigate through the critical shortage of skilled professionals. We look for strategic partnerships to support us in our commitment to addressing these workforce challenges with innovative solutions and offerings. This is essential in order for us to continue to contribute to the resilience and excellence of healthcare delivery within our community.”
Craig Ahrens
Chief Growth Officer, ShiftMed
Critical problems require innovative and comprehensive solutions. While the healthcare industry is facing a major staffing crisis, it’s encouraging to see impactful and leading-edge solutions evolving across the technology marketplace to not only tackle immediate needs but also highlight the importance of strong workforce development initiatives.
Andrew Malley
Chief Executive Officer at OpusVi™
We are thrilled to have two of the top three not-for-profit health systems, as well as one of the largest healthcare group purchasing organizations in America, as partners and investors. With our shareholder expertise and involvement, alongside our world-class digital platform, OpusVi™ will offer more healthcare organizations expert-driven education with best-in-class delivery, supported by an increasing amount of data, assessment and reporting.
Ashok Subramanian
Dean of The William A. Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University
Unlike many MBA programs which tend to specialize around functional lines such as finance, marketing, or analytics, my preference is to specialize along industry lines because every industry has its unique processes, models, problem structures, metrics, and key performance indicators. That’s why I’m very excited about this partnership. Healthcare is a unique industry and combining NAU’s business expertise with OpusVi™’s industry insights will allow us to teach business in the right industry context — this feeds well into my philosophical approach and will empower healthcare professionals to excel in their careers and achieve greatness for their organizations and their communities.
Kurt Hayes
Chief Learning Experience Officer at OpusVi™
To us, online learning is not only a means to an end — it’s a valuable tool that can be used to enhance a fulfilling learning experience. We can leverage it to deliver relevant content that can be applied immediately, allow learners to network and build lasting connections, and accommodate their busy schedules as working professionals. This program is built on relevance and employs practical, proven pedagogy throughout — we carefully design every aspect of the experience so students can succeed, improve their overall wellbeing, and make a real difference in their careers.
Kim Tharp-Barrie
System Vice President at the Institute for Nursing and Workforce Outreach
OpusVi™ is a vibrant and grounded leader in healthcare education and development that meets partners where they are to get them where they want to be. Their no-nonsense transparent approach to partnering is refreshing and appreciated during these unprecedented times. Their platform and their team is highly effective to help partners achieve desired outcomes.
Sandra M. Olguin
President and Chief Executive Officer at the Nevada Nurses Foundation
It’s a privilege to partner with a high-caliber healthcare workforce development team like the one OpusVi™ has to offer. The Nevada Nurses Foundation’s mission is to increase access to quality healthcare and further the professional advancement of nurses. OpusVi™ aligns with our mission and provides the tools and accessibility for healthcare providers to enhance their careers and improve the workforce. We are proud and fortunate to be partners.
Julie DeLoia, PhD
Chief Academic Officer of OpusVi™
In this program, learners will not just learn about the theory of social determinants of health, but also gain knowledge and skills that are immediately transferable to implement change in the workplace and communities. Learners will also gain skills to overcome obstacles to implementing change and how to evaluate program success.
Julia Profit-Johnson, RN, BSN
Birthing Center Manager at Bailey Medical Center and Secretary/Treasurer for the Oklahoma Nurses Association (ONAi
I was really impressed with the content. All topics were relevant and ‘real-time’. I found it interesting that it covered all subjects that would be important for nurse leaders, whether it was finance, communications within the team or to executive teams. It prepares those who want to progress to the next level of leadership.
Nicole DeJong
Director of Learning Experience Design at OpusVi
We’re proud of the learning experience we have created for this program. It’s truly immersive and practice-based learning. For example, we employ medical office simulation software so that learners can practice the exact tasks they will do on the job in a safe environment. Additionally, we have strategies in place to build a social learning community throughout the program. Learners can exchange ideas and network across multiple health systems even before they meet in-person during their skill boot camps.
John Godina
Three-time World Championship winner and two-time Olympic medal winner in the shot put
I opened and owned multiple fitness and sports training businesses since my retirement as an athlete. What is critical is knowing the processes of moving from one industry to another. By bringing the sports perspective into this Mini-MBA, we want to help people understand the nuances of the mental approach, the processes of goal setting, and the experiences around recovery. It provides a knowledge base that helps a medical provider transition into the business aspects of healthcare.
About Thunderbird School of Global Management
The Thunderbird School of Global Management is a unit of the Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. Thunderbird School of Global Management is the vanguard of global leadership, management, and business education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. They prepare future-ready leaders, managers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs across the private and public sectors who advance inclusive and sustainable prosperity worldwide.
- #1 Master's Degree in Global Management in the world (Times Higher Education/Wall Street Journal Business Schools Report, 2019)
- #1 for Most Innovative School in the U.S. (ASU) in the U.S. News & World Report 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
- #1 in the U.S. and #2 in the world for Global Impact (U.N. SDG Global Impact Rankings, Times Higher Education 2022)
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