Governance, Innovation and Knowledge in Healthcare

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The methodology includes lectures, using audiovisual means. It seeks to promote an active and participatory learning, focusing on the interaction, privileging the interaction and the discussion in the classroom, in order to better understand the contents addressed. The knowledge evaluation will be performed by conducting a written work (80%) and a correspondent presentation and discussion in the class (20%). The final mark is the result of weighted average of the written document and the presentation/discussion.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the concepts of governance, innovation and knowledge management applied to the health context, both at the level of health policies and at the level of care organizations.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Governance, health governance, corporate governance, hospital governance, integrated governance and clinical governance.

- Innovation, innovation in the public sector and innovation in healthcare.

- Knowledge management, knowledge applications, knowledge management tools, knowledge management in healthcare.

- Integrated framework for healthcare innovation.

Head Lecturer(s)

Víctor Manuel dos Reis Raposo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Bali R, Dwivedi A, Eds. Healthcare Knowledge Management - Issues, Advances and Successes. New York: Springer, 2007.

Burns LR. The business of healthcare innovation. Cambridge University Press, 2012

Clarke T, Ed. Theories of Corporate Governance: The philosophical foundations of corporate governance, London, Routledge. 2008.

Dalkir K. Knowledge management in theory and practice. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.

Elton J, O'Riordan A. Healthcare Disrupted: Next Generation Business Models and Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, 2016

Kooiman J. Governing as governance, London: Sage Publications. 2003.

Raposo V. Governação hospitalar: uma proposta conceptual e metodológica para o caso português. Coimbra: FEUC, 2007. 2 vol.