Online Master of Healthcare Innovation

College of Nursing

Do you want to revolutionize the future of healthcare with an online MHI degree?

The online Master of Healthcare Innovation (MHI) program will teach you strategies to innovate solutions and lead change within any healthcare organization. This unique leadership development program is perfect for healthcare professionals looking to take the next step in their careers and earn their online healthcare degree.

We welcome students from various backgrounds and positions in healthcare looking to obtain their Master of Healthcare Innovation. Those with a passion for design thinking and driving growth, change, and success in any healthcare organization will thrive especially well in this innovative care program. Upon graduation, you’ll be prepared to become a healthcare leader in the fields of administration, healthcare technologies, and patient care with the ability to affect change in today’s complex healthcare systems. 

Not yet ready for a master’s program? Our online Healthcare and Leadership Innovation Certificate may be the right fit. The graduate certificate program can be completed in two semesters, and all courses can be transferred to the master’s degree.

Campus Requirements: NONE – 100% online

Class Format: Most classes are offered in a synchronous format, meaning you have a scheduled date and time you must log in to attend.

Credit Hours Required: 31 

Cost Per Credit Hour: $968.27 (includes instructional, general, and program fees). See the full cost breakdown here.

Admission Requirements: Completed bachelor’s degree, minimum of a 3.0 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale in the last degree earned relevant to the program of study. 

Time to Completion: Five semesters (approximately 18 months)

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Emily Caudill

Healthcare Innovation Graduate

"The program is a journey. From clinical to administrative, I’m learning how to change the healthcare industry for the benefit of the patient."

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Meet Emily Caudill: Healthcare Innovator and Student

Resources

From Volume to Value: A Shift in Healthcare

Online Learner Sets out to Change the World of Healthcare

Master of Healthcare Innovation Program Empowers Students to Become Leaders of Change

Program Tracks

Students interested in a certificate program should consider the Healthcare Leadership and Innovation Certificate.

Sample Courses

HCINNOV 7440

Innovation in High Performing Organizations

Examination of innovation in high performing organizations and the leadership behaviors that sustain innovation, including discussion of cross-disciplinary theories and innovation competencies (such as positive deviance, complexity leadership, and disruptive innovation).

HCINNOV 7441

Innovation Leadership: Leading From Within

Discover yourself as a leader to maximize innovation in healthcare and organization impact, through examination of energy management and performance optimization.

HCINNOV 7520

Utilizing Technology to Measure Outcomes in Health Systems

This course explores strategies for outcome measurement to enhance organizational performance and innovation, and how to leverage technology to measure and integrate outcomes into the daily practice in healthcare. The course emphasizes technology's role in the measurement of outcomes at the personal, the professional, the organizational and the system level.

HCINNOV 7521

Best Practices in Organizational Operations

This course explores various elements of organizational operations that fully impact the organizations and system in which they work. This course will help you develop basic skill sets in financial and business operations in healthcare organizations. You will learn specific skills in budgeting, planning, financial analysis, program development and implementation, and resource identification and use.

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Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, RN

Clinical Instructor of Practice

Taura L. Barr, PhD, RN, FAHA

Associate Professor of Clinical Practice

Dana Wade DNP, RN, CPHQ, CNS-BC, NEA-BC

Lecturer

Michael H. Ackerman DNS, RN, CENP, FCCM, FNAP, FAANP

Director, Masters of Healthcare Innovation/Professor of Clinical Nursing

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