MGMT 272Precision Health Care
Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
The health care industry is undergoing a technology-driven transformation with screening, treatment, and advice all becoming more tailored to an individual’s genes, behavior, and environment. Study addresses opportunities and challenges of this new landscape for health-care industry workers including entrepreneurs, managers, venture capitalists, health insurers, and health-care administrators. Discussion of precision health-care technologies including genomic risk prediction, digital diagnosis, targeted therapeutics, remote monitoring, and fitness and dieting apps. Addresses consumers’ understanding of the technology, ethical issues in precision health care, and the behavioral economics of take-up and continued use of precision health interventions. Study based on cases drawing on real issues faced by precision-health businesses; guest speakers including experienced managers, founders, venture capitalists, investors, doctors, and scientists; and supplemented by relevant background reading.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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