Program Overview
See a snapshot for the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online program
Generate technologies and create awareness surrounding innovations that have the potential to significantly improve patient care with the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online at NKU. In this 100% online program, you will learn how to translate fundamental research and development into medical products, services, and procedures that are cost-effective, efficient, and consistent. You will address imperatives that can enhance the public’s access to care while navigating challenges such as constrained funding. This certificate is geared toward medical providers, entrepreneurs, and those who manufacture groundbreaking products within the medical device sector.
Coursework in this online healthcare certificate program focuses on the manufacturing process, understanding healthcare regulations, and utilizing advanced operations management and marketing to improve quality, reduce waste, and increase financial savings when commercializing commodities. You will learn to enable a healthcare revolution that is responsive to legal and regulatory constraints, economic clinical evidence requirements, and reimbursement implications for pricing and product design. An analysis of microeconomics will broaden your knowledge of the behavior of consumers, producers, and insurers in healthcare markets. Your ability to communicate with health professionals will be facilitated by an examination of the linguistic roots used to form complex symptomatic, diagnostic, operative, and therapeutic medical terms.
In this online program, you will:
- Identify the regulatory, economic, sociopolitical, clinical, and reimbursement constraints within the healthcare industry and for proposed healthcare products
- Create marketing and business plans incorporating the unique challenges of healthcare ventures
- Characterize a development process optimized for creating new healthcare products and services and evaluate its efficacy
- Learn to communicate effectively with healthcare professionals
- Assess, refine, and create a LEAN process to improve quality in healthcare settings
NKU is ranked among “The Best Online Colleges in Kentucky” by TheBestSchools.org (2021)
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"Great innovations come from unique insights. Being able to capture and develop those insights is a teachable skill."
– Doug Ladd, Professor of Practice & Executive Entrepreneur in Residence
Tuition
Pay for your program by the course
The Health Care Commercialization Certificate online program offers the same affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition for in-state and out-of-state students.
Tuition breakdown:
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Required Fees | Total With Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Care Commercialization Certificate | $566 | $288 | $10,188 |
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Calendar
Learn our application deadlines and class schedules
With six start dates a year, the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online program is flexible and convenient. View the calendar to find the best start date for you, along with corresponding deadlines.
Now Enrolling:
| Session | Program Start Date | Application Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Last Class Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 1 | 01/09/2023 | 01/03/2023 | 01/05/2023 | 01/06/2023 | 01/09/2023 | 02/24/2023 |
| Spring 2 | 03/13/2023 | 03/01/2023 | 03/06/2023 | 03/09/2023 | 03/13/2023 | 04/28/2023 |
| Summer 1 | 05/08/2023 | 04/26/2023 | 05/01/2023 | 05/04/2023 | 05/08/2023 | 06/23/2023 |
| Summer 2 | 06/26/2023 | 06/14/2023 | 06/19/2023 | 06/22/2023 | 06/26/2023 | 08/11/2023 |
| Fall 1 | 08/21/2023 | 08/09/2023 | 08/14/2023 | 08/18/2023 | 08/21/2023 | 10/06/2023 |
| Fall 2 | 10/18/2023 | 10/05/2023 | 10/10/2023 | 10/13/2023 | 10/18/2023 | 12/08/2023 |
Ready to take the next step toward earning your degree online from Northern Kentucky University?
Admissions
Follow these streamlined admission steps for the Health Care Commercialization Certificate
The admission process is the first step toward earning your certificate online. Requirements for the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online program include:
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Health Care Commercialization Certificate Online Admission Requirements
- Complete online application for admission
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Pay $40 non-refundable application fee
- If you are an NKU alumni or active/veteran military member, your application fee will be waived
- Bachelor’s degree (at minimum) with official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate (if applicable) coursework from accredited institutions
- Minimum 2.5 GPA
Official documents may be mailed or emailed to:
NKU Office of Graduate Education302 Lucas Administrative Center
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Have a question? Call us at 800-985-7215.
Courses
Gain the knowledge you need in these online healthcare commercialization courses
In order to earn the Health Care Commercialization Certificate online, students must complete six courses for a total of 18 credit hours.
Students must take the following courses:
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Unique challenges and limitations imposed by regulatory bodies and other considerations factor into marketing healthcare related products and services. This course uses case studies and projects to enable marketing plan development responsive to legal and regulatory constraints, clinical evidence requirements, and reimbursement implications for pricing and product design.
CHP 609: Developing New Products & Services in Healthcare
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Systematically examines successes and failures in product development across a spectrum of health care companies to provide the skills needed to move ideas to market with an increased likelihood of success.
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Focuses on mastering the complex symptomatic, diagnostic, operative, and therapeutic medical terms critical to success in the health care field.
CHP 611: Healthcare Commercialization Practicum
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Putting theory into practice, students work in teams under faculty supervision to provide the analysis needed to move a new or proposed medical product to the next development stage. Expected products include competitive assessments, a value proposition framework, a customer input plan, proposed pricing, and an evidence generation plan.
HSC 650: Healthcare Policy & Economics
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to health economics focuses on using the tools of microeconomic analysis to understand behavior by consumers, producers and insurers in health care markets. The tools of microeconomic analysis will also be applied to current policy problems, and supported with analyses of publicly available data sources.
MHI 665: Healthcare Quality Systems
Duration: 7 weeks | Credit Hours: 3
Advanced operations management approaches to quality; process and productivity improvement in health care organizations; use of case studies, exercises, and/or term projects to show application of management and quantitative concepts.
