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Continuing Education

HVT 102
Innovation Project Course

Total Units :
3.0
Course Outlines
What is new value creation in healthcare? This course will provide you with an opportunity to apply the entrepreneurship skills you have developed so far to real-world health problems. As part of this course, you will be working on teams with learners from various programs at the undergraduate, graduate, resident, and clinical levels. The purpose of this course is to train you on how we identify and manage scalable opportunities for big impact in healthcare. We will work through four three-week ‘sprints', where we analyze clinical problems, develop solutions and pitch our proposed solutions to a clinical and industry panel. This course highlights disruptive technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality) as the solution space of interest as well as business models that require complex change and regulatory processes to become adopted. As such one of the key themes of this course will be managing complexity. This course also helps you understand how innovation works in healthcare contexts. What challenges exist? Which opportunities are prioritized? How do you identify opportunities that are worth pursuing? How do you navigate the health system and innovation processes to create a new value alongside a compelling business case? By the end of this course, you will have a deep understanding of the challenges faced by health innovators, a refined skill set in health entrepreneurship, and a network of industry and clinical professionals. Anti-requisite HTH SCI 4IS3. Pre-requisite: HVT 101

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