{"id":17397,"date":"2012-07-18T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T14:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=17397"},"modified":"2017-11-08T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T15:20:41","slug":"healthcare-mba-students-present-findings-from-travel-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/07\/healthcare-mba-students-present-findings-from-travel-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare MBA students present findings from travel to China."},"content":{"rendered":"

With changes happening rapidly in healthcare, studying systems of other countries offers ways of improving efficiencies. Graduate students in the Healthcare MBA<\/a> (HCMBA) program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) recently presented the highlights of their Master\u2019s Research Project—which included extensive research in China during March 2012—to the leadership of the Memorial Healthcare system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I heard that these students, many of whom are Memorial employees, had a firsthand look at China\u2019s healthcare system, I invited them to speak to our group,\u201d said Aurelio Fernandez (MHSA \u201985, BBA \u201974), executive vice president and COO, Memorial Healthcare System. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been open to new ideas; today we especially need to be creative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Memorial employees Dion Corrodus (HCMBA \u201912) and Tony Milian (HCMBA \u201912) presented the group\u2019s findings to over 350 directors, managers and other executives during a Memorial leadership development meeting on June 14th.<\/p>\n

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Healthcare MBA students presented research findings\u2014gathered during a research trip to China\u2014to leaders of the Memorial Healthcare system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe did months of research, but visiting the hospitals in China and meeting with key people provided the most insight,\u201d said Milian, director of U18 Sports Medicine at Joe DiMaggio Children\u2019s Hospital. \u201cDuplicating China\u2019s healthcare system is not the goal. Rather, we painted a picture of a healthcare system worth considering and possibly adopting some of its strategies here in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was especially impressed with how technology helps providers serve people better,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cFor instance, patients scheduling appointments using the Internet enables hospitals to serve a larger population.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group of ten students visited five Chinese hospitals with Nancy Borkowski, executive director of Health Management Programs, and Weidong Xia, who teaches health information systems courses.<\/p>\n

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Ten students visited five Chinese hospitals to better understand the country\u2019s healthcare delivery system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAll Chinese medical services, including doctor visits and prescription medicine, are only available at hospitals so efficiency is very important,\u201d Milian said. \u201cIt\u2019s not unusual for a hospital to have 10,000 outpatient visits daily.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continuing the encouragement of higher education.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fernandez said the presentation confirms his belief that Memorial should continue to support employees working on advanced degrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cHearing extensive research like this shows how important continual knowledge is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Apparently, learning is contagious. Lancelot Radlein, director, finance, Memorial Manor Nursing Home, attended the presentation—and applied for the fall HCMBA program at FIU.<\/p>\n

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With changes happening rapidly in healthcare, studying systems of other countries offers ways of improving efficiencies. Graduate students in the Healthcare MBA (HCMBA) program in the College of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU) recently presented the highlights of their Master\u2019s Research Project—which included extensive research in China during March 2012—to the leadership of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[653,1070,1074,2593,2664],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29494,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions\/29494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}