• Explore successful organizational transformations to value-based health care.
• Gain insight into considerations involved in transitioning to value-based care. 
• Learn to leverage behavioral economics and risk analytics when leading teams.
• Enhance emotional intelligence and negotiation skills to engage stakeholders across the organization in transformative change. 
• Hear about the latest health care IT systems.
• Network with faculty, alumni and peer executives across sectors and disciplines.
• Fully online format to respect the busy schedules of health care executives.

Senior level executives at hospital and health care systems including but not limited to:

• Medical Leaders, including Chairs, Division heads, Medical Directors, and Team Leaders
• Nursing Leaders, including Vice-Presidents, Directors, and Unit Leaders
• Vice Presidents of Finance, IT, Operations, and IT and their Directors
• Health and department administrators 
• Health care system consultants

This course is fully online and kicks off with three full days of learning January 7-9, 2025. The cohort continues to meet for 90-minute webinars on consecutive Wednesday evenings beginning on January 22 through May and concludes with a graduation on June 4, 2025. Content is delivered via lectures from industry leaders, group discussions, readings, personal reflection exercises and small group networking. Topics include:

Leadership, Negotiation and Organizational Change Management – 25%

• Leadership frameworks
• Negotiation frameworks and analytics
• Conflict management
• Transition management
• Organizational culture and leadership

Population Health Management & Analytics – 20% 

• Population health overview including the social determinants of health
• Population health – understanding complex chronic illness
• Population health – risk adjustment
• Population health – health behavior change 

Behavioral Economics and Finance in Accountable Care – 20% 

• Latest CMS and state-based value-based health care models
• Alignment of incentives for value
• Understanding costs in value-based model
• Role of acturarial analysis in value-based models
• Behavioral economics
• Private sector innovations for value 

Quality Improvement & Measurement – 15%

• Measuring quality in accountable care
• Opportunities and challenges in quality performance measurement
• Barriers and challenges, models, evidence and solutions
• Improving patient safety with team-based care

Health Information for Care & Health Management – 15%

• IT and value-based health care
• IT and the power of electronic medical records
• The role of health information exchange
• Use of predictive models in value-based care

Ethical Issues in Value-Based Health Care – 5%

• Costs, incentives, and quality through ethics frameworks

Core Faculty

David Chin, MD, MBA
Program Director
Distinguished Scholar, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Peter S. Greene, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer & Associate Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Curriculum Chair: Health Information Technology

Doug Hough, PhD
Associate Scientist & Associate Director 
Master of Healthcare Administration Program 
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Department of Health Policy and Management
Curriculum Chair: Healthcare Economics, Finance & Analytics

Stacey B. Lee, JD
Associate Professor
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Curriculum Chair: Negotiation

David H. Sachs, MBA
Executive Director of The LEADERship
Faculty Associate
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – Department of Health Policy and Management

Guest Faculty – Industry Leaders

Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Division of General Internal Medicine University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 

Kathryn McDonald, PhD, MM
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Systems, Safety, and Quality 
Jointly Appointed at Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Business, and Public Health

“A lot of the magic of the experience was the broad diversity of disciplines represented.” 

Marty Basso, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Sibley Memorial Hospital and Suburban Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine

“It’s definitely had an impact in the way that I approach managing and looking at ways of cost saving and also leveraging some of the things I learned in the course to create value to the patients that we treat.”

Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

“It brings the expertise from four different schools—from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Carey Business School and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. That kind of breadth and depth of knowledge is embedded in the program.”

-Bill Baumgartner, MD
Former Senior Vice President, Office of Physicians
Johns Hopkins Medicine