The MBA Health Sector Management (HSM) program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business this week launched a joint initiative with Verizon to develop health information technology designed to drive better care, expanded access and lower costs, the Durham school announced.
Fuqua’s HSM program, the oldest and largest health management concentration among top U.S. business schools, enrolls 400 MBA students in its full-time and executive programs each year. Through this new partnership, HSM and Verizon Connected Healthcare Solutions, the company’s healthcare practice group, will combine technical resources and personnel to focus on projects that can harness advanced communications technology to improve healthcare services and offerings. Initial potential projects include mobile health applications and consumer health care education.
Verizon will provide computing infrastructure to perform analytical processing and modeling along with staffing and resources to implement technical development. Fuqua will provide students, research and project management experts and educational program development staff, along with intellectual property and other research required for initiatives sponsored by the new program.
“This strategic agreement with Verizon offers great promise to serve as an agent of positive change in the U.S. healthcare delivery market,” Kevin Schulman, Fuqua’s HSM director, said in a statement. “By tapping into Verizon’s leading technology resources and applying Duke’s research expertise, both organizations will be able to closely collaborate to explore how we can collectively unleash the powerful potential of health information technology,” he continued.
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