A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice

This course is part of Global Health Innovations Specialization

Instructor: Dr Matthew Harris

What you'll learn

  •   Describe the principles and key types of innovation in order to characterise the fundamental features of new models of care or technologies.
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  •   Consider the key factors that influence the adoption and scaling up of different types of healthcare innovations

    • Skills you'll gain

  •   Health Systems
  •   New Product Development
  •   Social Sciences
  •   Product Design
  •   Commercialization
  •   Economics, Policy, and Social Studies
  •   Innovation
  •   Ideation
  •   Health Policy
  •   Health Care
  •   Design Thinking
  •   Emerging Technologies
  •   Business Development
  •   Health Technology

    • There are 4 modules in this course

    This course will review the basic features and principles of healthcare innovation. You'll be examining innovations developed to address global health challenges, ranging from simple low-cost technologies readily deployed in resource constrained settings to more complex combinations of organizational, business model and technology innovations. Throughout this course, you'll also consider how adoption and diffusion is influenced by social, economic and political factors and explore what is required to get an innovation in to practice, effectively, at scale.

    TYPES OF INNOVATION - DISRUPTIVE, FRUGAL AND REVERSE

    PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALISATION

    GETTING AN INNOVATION INTO PRACTICE

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