Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management Maastricht University

Overview

Internationally, the need for innovation in health care has never been greater. Demographic shifts, technological advancements, and increasing resource shortages create a need for novel solutions to ensure high-quality care for all. The master Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management from Maastricht University , HPIM, prepares students to become critical thinkers, who analyse the complex problems facing modern health systems from different theoretical perspectives, design innovative solutions, and lead the necessary transformations towards a sustainable future.

This programme is for you if you:

• are eager to develop essential competencies to spur innovation in the health domain;
• want to organise health services and systems in a future-proof and equitable way;
• are motivated to make a real impact on the sustainability of health care.

Influencing the future of healthcare: innovation

Across Europe, healthcare has become one of the biggest employment sectors. State involvement in healthcare features an unprecedented growth. These developments raise fundamental questions, such as: 

• how to organise and implement patient-oriented healthcare,
• how to guarantee universal access to a fair package of health services,
• how to provide high-quality healthcare while containing costs,
• how to improve the performance of healthcare systems in general and healthcare providers in particular.

Key to all these issues is the need for innovation. The Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management programme will therefore give you solid insight into all aspects of healthcare innovation at all levels and from different disciplines (including economics, financial and strategic management, policy sciences, innovation and quality management, process management). It will provide you with the competences needed to play a key role in initiating, governing, evaluating and managing healthcare innovations. And it will give you the ability to critically analyse health systems, to translate the results into innovative solutions and to influence the future of healthcare.

Improve your research skills

• In addition to the theoretical knowledge you'll gain, you will also improve your practical research skills and employability skills. So you will not only learn about for example the economics of healthcare or process management, you will also learn how to conduct scientific investigations into these or other topics. You’ll practice all the stages of academic research, including designing the research, collecting data, data-analysis and reporting the findings.

Career opportunities:

• Manager 

• Consultant

• Policy advisor

• Care purchaser

• Researcher

• Teachers