Profile Health Care Management
| Modul | Leistung | Lehrveranstaltung | Art | SWS | Credits | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gesundheitsökonomik | K | Gesundheitsökonomik | V | 3 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Konzepte und Instrumente des Controllings | K | Konzepte und Instrumente des Controllings Konzepte und Instrumente des Controllings | V Ü | 2 1 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Planung, Kontrolle & Steuerung von Einrichtungen des Gesundheitswesens & sozialer Dienstleistungen | K | Planung, Kontrolle & Steuerung von Einrichtungen des Gesundheitswesens & sozialer Dienstleistungen | VÜ | 3 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Versicherungstechnik | K | Risiko & Versicherung | VÜ | 3 | 6 (SL) | ||
| E-Health | K, HA, REF | E-Health | VÜ | 3 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Gesundheits- & Sozialmanagement | K | Public & Non-Profit Management (1) Medizin für Ökonomen (2) Einführung in das Medizinrecht (2) | VÜ V V | 2 1 1 | 6 (SL) | ||
| KI-Recht und Digitalrecht | K | KI-Recht und Digitalrecht | V | 3 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Ökonomische Evaluation und Krankenversicherungssysteme | K (3) | Ökonomische Evaluation und Krankenversicherungssysteme | VÜ | 2 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Schwerpunktseminare | |||||||
| Projektseminar Humboldt reloaded | HA, REF | Schwerpunktseminar Core Concepts of Health Care Management | S | 2 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Profilseminar Gesundheitsverhalten | HA, REF | Schwerpunktseminar Advanced Topics of Health Care & Public Management | S | 2 | 6 (SL) | ||
| Profilseminar zum Gesundheitsmanagement | HA, REF | Profilseminar zum Gesundheitsmanagement | S | 2 | 6 (SL) | ||
(1) Within this module, the course “Public & Nonprofit Management” is required.
(2) One of the two courses has to be chosen.
(3) There are two block exams (midterm and final).
Performance: K: Exam, ÜL: Exercise, HA: Term Paper, REF: Presentation
Type: V: Lecture, VÜ: Lecture with Exercise, VS: Lecture with Seminar, S: Seminar
Credits: PL: Prüfungsleistung, SL: Studienleistung
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

