Master of Healthcare Innovation

The Master of Healthcare Innovation (MHI) is a 33-credit master’s degree now being offered online that prepares students to lead health care into the future as they focus on real-life outcomes.

The MHI offers a multidisciplinary, educational approach to prepare students for a transformative role in health care. Students come from a variety of backgrounds, including nursing, health sciences, and health care architecture, as well as engineering, business administration, and journalism.

This program is designed to bring together information from innovation and change theory, leadership, entrepreneurship, application technology, and system design programs, to create innovative solutions to the challenges in health care. Program graduates are leaders armed with the vision and skills to influence the future direction of health care and to transform the current system to improve health outcomes for patients and providers.

The MHI Educational Experience

Students will approach the study of innovation for the healthcare marketplace with a focus on advancing the system from multiple perspectives—personal competence for innovation, use of evidence in decision making, remodeling system infrastructures, financing, communication, entrepreneurship, technology, and policy making. Students will develop competence in the design, application, and testing of innovative processes and products, however, the primary focus is on preparing students to lead the process of innovation and transformation. Innovative thinking, planning, implementing, and evaluation are emphasized throughout the program. The curriculum incorporates the latest trends in health care and the opportunity to network with other professionals and faculty across diverse disciplines.

"With my MHI degree, I learned to function quite well outside my comfort zone and now continue to seek out those opportunities to promote growth. I became a better leader because I learned so much about the diffusion of innovation, valuing the input of staff at the point of service, and embracing the diversity of my team.”
Ronda Atkinson, MHI Graduate, Magnet Coordinator

Quantum Leadership: Conversations on
Sustaining Innovation in the Age of Complexity

Want to know more about the thinking behind the Master of Healthcare Innovation program?

We invite you to view a conversation with MHI co-founders Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN and Tim Porter-O'Grady, DM, EdD, ScD(h), APRN, FAAN on "Innovation Leadership in Healthcare." (18 minutes).