The Innovative Health Care Leader Program Participants

Curriculum

Where does the art of patient care intersect with the business of medicine? How can design thinking help you navigate and innovate through uncertainty?

To survive and thrive in the complex and chaotic world of health care, you need new models and mindsets. The Innovative Health Care Leader delivers them. This program is a groundbreaking academic partnership between Stanford GSB and Stanford School of Medicine.

Program Highlights

Below are just a few of the sessions you’ll attend as part of the program.

Design Thinking for Health Care Innovation

Learn design thinking — a human-centered, prototype-driven process for innovation that can be applied to products, services, and even business and organizational design. At Stanford, we believe that innovation is necessary in every aspect of health care leadership, and that it can be taught.

These sessions will give you a strong understanding of the key tenets of design thinking, and how to execute them within your organization. You’ll start by working with a partner in hands-on exercises to experience how the design process works. Then, you’ll spend the rest of the day in small design teams working on a health care industry design challenge.

Design thinking by its very nature is experiential, so come with an open mind, wear comfortable attire, and make sure you’re well-rested!

High-Touch in a High-Tech Age: Challenges and Opportunities

Technology is critical to quality and safety in the delivery of health care; it can, however, inadvertently create barriers between the patient and the health care team.

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How do you still deliver the sense of ‘care’ in caring while delivering cutting-edge science?”
Attribution
Abraham Verghese, Faculty Co-Director

The focus on efficiency can also have an unanticipated impact on social rituals that are important to the well-being of both provider and patient. A thoughtful physical exam performed by an effective listener not only results in a far better experience for the patient, but also can be an important buffer against medical error and delayed diagnosis.

In this session with Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, from the Stanford School of Medicine, we will discuss the human experience in medicine, using the Institute of Medicine’s 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care and Stanford studies to guide the discussion.

Scaling Up Excellence

Professor Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao devoted seven years to studying how the best leaders and teams spread constructive beliefs, behaviors, and practices from those who have them to those who need them.

In this session, Huggy will reveal how the best leaders develop and instill the right mindsets in their people, and will unpack principles that help spread excellence throughout an organization. These insights are based on diverse case studies, hundreds of interviews with scaling veterans, and rigorous academic studies on organizations including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Facebook, Google, Pixar, and more.

Financial Accounting to Reduce Healthcare Costs

The objective of financial accounting is to measure economic activity for decision-making. Financial statements are a key product of this measurement process and an important component of firms’ financial reporting activities.

In this session, Anne Beyer will examine the role of the primary financial statements—balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows—and identify key relations among them. She’ll also discuss common ratios used to evaluate firm performance, and study the links between a firm’s economics and strategy and its financial statements.

Mindset, Health, and the Human Experience

Mindsets are core assumptions about the nature and workings of things in the world that orient us to a particular set of attributions, expectations, and goals. In this session, Alia Crum will discuss the ways in which mindsets influence health as well as the myriad ways that mindsets can be more effectively leveraged to motivate healthy behaviors and improve 21st century healthcare.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation
American Medical Association (AMA)

Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 30.50 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Stanford Medicine adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. Hence, there are no relevant financial relationships with an ACCME-defined ineligible company for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.

View full CME information and disclosure summary at https://stanford.cloud-cme.com/2024IHL

A Linguistic Prescription for Ailing Communication
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A Linguistic Prescription for Ailing Communication

Abraham Verghese, MD, shares a compelling and original perspective on the impact of language on medicine.

Related Reading

Scope Blog by Stanford Medicine

An interview with faculty member Abraham Verghese about the launch of the The Innovative Health Care Leader program.

Contact

Donna Obeid
Associate Director, Programs Executive Education