EMBA Health Care Management

New perspectives and tools for healthcare management professionals! Strengthen your strategic leadership and find solutions to the challenges in the social and healthcare sector.

Are you a healthcare leader facing daily pressures related to resources, staff shortages, and increasing service demands? Join the EMBA Healthcare Management programme, where you will develop strategic and operational leadership skills and learn to leverage new tools and methods, such as the OKR model, data-driven management, and Lean thinking. You will gain practical solutions to improve your organization's productivity and impact in a financially pressured environment. Additionally, the program explores future foresight and emerging trends in the healthcare sector, helping you prepare for upcoming changes and stay at the forefront of development. The programme is taught in Finnish.

In the EMBA Health Care Management -programme you will strengthen your strategic leadership skills and find solutions to the critical challenges in the health care sector.

  • Strategic and data-driven management: You will learn to make data-based decisions that improve the productivity and effectiveness of services.
  • Innovative solutions to staff shortages: You will gain tools for engaging staff, leading multidisciplinary teams and utilizing new technologies.
  • OKR model (Objectives and Key Results): You will adopt the OKR model to clarify organizational goals and ensure the efficient use of resources.
  • Lean thinking and process optimization: You will explore Lean methods that can enhance the efficiency of healthcare organizations and reduce waste.

The programme offers a great opportunity to network with other healthcare leaders across sectors, share best practices and learn from fellow professionals in the field. Strengthen your role as a future healthcare leader and develop your organization towards sustainable and impactful solutions that enhance service quality and efficient use of resources.

For whom?

Social and healthcare professionals working in managerial, leadership or specialist roles in the private, public or third sector.

Modes of study

The studies consist of three interactive contact teaching seminars and of a learning assignment linked to your own work. Participants have access to an online learning platform that supports learning.

 
I received a lot of valuable information that I can utilize in my daily work, as well as excellent peer support and exchange of experiences with participants representing various fields of healthcare.

Themes and modules of the programme


Seminar 1: Management Culture and Employee Engagement

  • Employer reputation and its significance for employee retention and attraction
  • Management and communication in a changing operational environment
  • Utilizing Artificial Intelligence and robotics in management and communications tasks
  • Lean thinking: Streamlining processes and eliminating unnecessary steps

Seminar 2: Strategic Management and Innovative Solutions

  • Change forces in healthcare, and strategic management
  • Data-driven management: Decision-making based on data and impact metrics
  • Measuring service productivity and effectiveness using the OKR model
  • Innovative solutions to resource scarcity

Seminar 3: Financial Management and Sustainable Development

  • Keys to financial efficiency
  • Prioritization and impact-based approach

As a participant in EMBA Healthcare Management -programme you will:

  • deepen your strategic management skills
  • improve your people management skills
  • strengthen your ability to incorporate the financial perspective in operational development

Strengthen your leadership skills and lead your organization toward a sustainable and impactful future!

Programme scope and fee

The programme fee is €3,700 + 25,5 % VAT. The fee includes the teaching, materials and coffee and lunch in the seminars. The fee is invoiced after the start of the programme.

The scope of the programme is 6 ECTS credits. You can complete the programme as part of the Executive MBA studies or as an independent module. The programme is taught in Finnish.

Contact us for more information:

Sirpa Koponen, Programme Director 
sirpa.koponen(at)jyu.fi
tel. +358 40 836 8841