Transforming Health Care: Current Challenges and Strategies for Progress

Description from DukeHub

This course explores real-world strategies to transform health care. Students will learn about 1) health system performance challenges and opportunities for improvement, 2) historical, contemporary, and emerging policy and practice reforms in diverse health care transformation issue areas (e.g., digital health and AI, population health and prevention, primary care, biomedical innovation), 3) implementation considerations and supports (e.g., financing and payment, stakeholder alignment), and 4) methods and evidence to assess effectiveness and impact. Class sessions will leverage recent policy reforms with case examples and perspectives from public- and private-sector leaders.

Skills

• policy and lawdepartment: HLTHPOL
• research methodsAI review: "methods and evidence to assess effectiveness and impact"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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• Closing the Gap HLTHPOL 396T-03
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