Profile Health Care Management

General study structure

 

 

 

What is it about?

Goals and Content:

• Special controlling and management tools for hospitals, medical care centers and networks
• Value of healthcare services and specificity of healthcare markets
• Information and incentive problems in healthcare facilities
• Functionality of the German health insurance (GKV and PKV)
• Opportunities and risks through the use of e-health, machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Basics of risk theory and insurance technology
• Controlling tasks within operational management and typical controlling instruments
• Supplementary subjects by lecturers from practice (e.g., medicine for economists)
• Special topics are considered in depth in (practical) seminars

Examples of useful module combinations

There are two strategies available when taking your modules: focusing on one area or developing broader skills. In principle, many other module combinations are possible, so that you can design your personal profile according to your own interests.

Focus

• Health Care Management: Planning, control & management of health care facilities and social services in combination with controlling and health and social management

• Health insurance: Planning, control & management of health care facilities and social services in combination with underwriting and economic evaluation and health insurance systems

Build broader competencies

•  Health and social management parallel to health economics and e-health

•  Economic evaluation and health insurance systems parallel to health economics and e-health

Typical professional fields

In this profile area, you deepen your business education specifically for the healthcare industry. The cross-sectional knowledge of health economics qualifies you for management and various business management positions in the healthcare sector.

 Some typical professional fields:

• Controlling
• Project management
• (Digital) change management
• Management consultancy Healthcare and non-profit
• Management
• Personnel development
• Project development and management (supply concepts)
• Quality management
• Corporate Health Management

 Examples of employers are:

• Hospitals
• Insurance companies (health insurance companies, private health insurers)
• Medical practices
• Social facilities
• Public Health Authorities
• Interest groups (e.g., Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians)
• Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers
• International Organizations (WHO, OECD)
• Health-related (IT) service providers