| By the numbers |
Medical expenses for the uninsured in America is near $200 billion a year. The United States has the highest infant mortality rate out of 23 industrialized countries. The U.S. ranks amongst the bottom of the expectation for a healthy life at age 60. We spend more years unhealthy than our industrialized counterpart. Read more ... |
| Upcoming events |
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Clinical EBP Mentorship program
Monday, Sept. 7, 2009 at 8 a.m.
College of Nursing & Health Innovation in dowtown Phoenix
2nd Annual Invitational Geriatric Conference
Friday, Sept. 11 at 8 a.m.
Arizona State University West
La Sala Ballroom
4701 West Thunderbird Rd.
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If you are interested in sponsoring the Master of Healthcare Innovation Program, please e-mail Master of Healthcare Innovation.
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| DIRECTOR'S CORNER: Ready to change the world |
On Aug. 20, we welcomed 29 students to the Master of Healthcare Innovation program. While this was a very exciting time for the faculty and I, it got me thinking about the past and the future.
Looking back, it is remarkable how far the MHI program has come since our first students were accepted in 2006. What had been a dream became reality, and a model for innovation leadership in itself as the journey of discovery began. As we reach December of this year, the program will have delivered more than 35 graduates to the world of health care -- ready to apply the power of innovation leadership to whatever they touch; to change the world.
Actually, that is not accurate. Better said, more than 35 graduates will deliver themselves to the world that awaits them and that will be changed by them. Because at the end of the day, this program learns, grows, and makes a difference through its students. Our new class stands on the shoulders of all those who have gone before, and in due time, they too will be a source of support for those who follow them.
So, to all our graduates and soon-to-be graduates -- Congratulations, thank you, and God's speed! To our new class, welcome and thanks for picking up the torch of innovation.
- Jack
Jack Gilbert, EdD, FACHE
Program Director
Master of Healthcare Innovation
Arizona State University |
| Q & A: Dr. Marshall Smith, director, Simulation and Innovation |
| Dr. Marshall Smith, system director of Simulation and Innovation for Banner Health, helped conceptualize and bring to fruition Banner Health's 5000 square foot Simulation Education and Training Center (SimET Center) which utilizes the latest advances in Simulation and Virtual Reality technology to train hundreds of medical personnel each year.
Kimberly Briggs, a student in the Master of Healthcare Innovation program, spent five minutes with Dr. Smith to find out more about his simulation and innovation journey. Read more ... |
| LEAD: Lessons from great innovators |
Rebel, nonconformist, iconoclast or visionary? Are these the words that describe a great innovator? It seems that the common thread that defines great innovators throughout time is an ability to see a challenge from a different perspective which ultimately sheds light on a solution that previously didn't exist.
"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see." Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bangladeshi banker, economist, and innovator of microcredit loans. These microcredit loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Read more ... |
| ALUM: Sustainability at the bedside |
| Master of Healthcare Innovation alum Beth Schenk has been busy implementing more environmentally-friendly policies and attitudes in her own hospital and beyond. Health care is one of the largest sectors in the economy, responsible for 16 percent of gross domestic product. In addition to sheer size, health care is energy intensive and innately eco-unfriendly.
Consider this: hospitals are always open, energy-needy machines are everywhere and always on, large amounts of pharmaceutical and biological waste needing special disposal is produced, sterility is requisite and generally necessitates the use of disposable items.
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NEXT: MHI launches LinkedIn group
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Join MHI on LinkedIn - MHI Alumni, Faculty and Students are encouraged to participate in our new MHI LInkedIn Group. Why LinkedIn? Why not?
Phase I. This leading business-oriented networking site has millions of users, includes a broad cross section of individuals globally, and includes many groups focused on innovation, product and process improvement and healthcare. LinkedIn was selected instead of Ning, Facebook and Epsilen, because of its focus on business, leadership and networking in the 21st Century. This is just a "piece" of the puzzle, but an important external, business and global presence.
Phase II. We will organize an internally managed ASU Web site, using the Drupal (open source) platform. Students in the MHI 544 Innovations & Info Systems course this past summer developed a test site as their team project. We will be leveraging this excellent work and announce our new collaboration headquarters (with restricted area control) in the next few months. Very exciting times!
- Dan Nienhauser |
| EXPLORE: Students create Web site to further facilitate learning |
| The Master of Healthcare Innovation program is one-of-a-kind program in the slow-to-adapt academic environment. The program consists of about 95 percent online coursework, with only four days each semester of face-to-face time. Currently, the students use a platform called Blackboard to virtually discuss course topics, submit assignments, download text, and check grades. So you ask, how well can this work in such an intense program? The honest answer is not very well at all.
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| FOOD FOR THOUGHT: An MHI motto? |
About half way through our summer semester, while I was working on another MHI assignment instead of going to a summer concert on the beach, I ran across a Discussion Board posting by fellow MHI student Tony Mollica. Tony talked about his philosophy of the MHI program by simplying describing it as "head in the clouds, feet on the ground." I was inspired. I immediately thought that his philosophy should be the new motto of the MHI program!
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