Healthcare Innovation: What Does Success Look Like and How to Achieve It?

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Approx. 21 hours to complete

Course Summary

This course provides insights on the healthcare industry's innovation and how to achieve success in it. It covers topics such as identifying unmet needs, designing solutions, and scaling innovations.

Key Learning Points

  • Learn how to identify unmet needs in the healthcare industry
  • Gain knowledge on designing solutions for healthcare innovation
  • Understand how to scale healthcare innovations

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Learning Outcomes

  • Identify unmet needs in the healthcare industry
  • Design and develop solutions for healthcare innovation
  • Understand the process of scaling healthcare innovations

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

  • Basic knowledge of healthcare industry
  • Interest in healthcare innovation

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

  • Online
  • Self-paced

Similar Courses

  • Healthcare Innovation: Designing for the Future
  • Innovation in Healthcare

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Notable People in This Field

  • Dr. Eric Topol
  • Dr. Atul Gawande

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Description

This course focuses on the factors involved in the adoption of innovation - features, organizations, country of origin, cognitive, normative and affective aspects, change agents. Using real-world health innovations, you'll assess what impacts their scaleability to new contexts, how organizational and human characteristics affect adoption, to what extent diffusion of an innovation is influenced by unconscious bias. You'll also delve into the process of adopting an innovation within a clinical setting and why it's so important to know who your 'change agents' are. As started in the second course of this specialisation, Healthcare Entrepreneurship: Taking Ideas to Market, you'll revisit the skill of pitching, exploring why and how to adapt pitches depending on your audience.

Knowledge

  • Consider key factors influencing the adoption and scaling up of different healthcare innovations so as to examine what success looks like.
  • Analyse how organizational structure, culture and resources are key in adoption in relation to organizational contexts.
  • Examine how cognitive, normative and affective aspects can influence perception regarding an innovation's attractiveness and scaleability.
  • Apply persuasive techniques to connect to audiences involved in the process of innovation scaling and adoption.

Outline

  • HOW TO IDENTIFY A SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION
  • Welcome to Global Health Innovation
  • Factors affecting adoption of an innovation
  • Robotic surgery: Interview with Hutan Ashrafian
  • The Brazilian Family Health Strategy: Interview with Antonio Ribas
  • About Imperial College
  • About the Global Health Innovations Team
  • How to be successful in this course?
  • Grading Policy
  • Glossary
  • Innovation features required for success
  • Two successful innovations? Brazil's Family Health Strategy and Robotic Surgery
  • Innovation Features and Scalability - Part I
  • Innovation Features and Scalability - Part II
  • Comparing the two innovations - Community Health Workers and Robotic Surgery
  • Test your knowledge of features of innovations required for success
  • ORGANISATIONAL AND HUMAN FACTORS THAT AFFECT ADOPTION OF AN INNOVATION
  • Organisation features that affect adoption of an innovation
  • Characteristics of people that affect the adoption of an innovation
  • Surgical robots and community health workers in context
  • Organisational features that facilitate adoption of innovations
  • Human factors that contribute to the spread and non-spread of innovation - Part I
  • Human factors that contribute to the spread and non-spread of innovation - Part II
  • Test your knowledge on organisational and human factors that affect adoption of an innovation
  • COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND HOW IT AFFECTS INNOVATION DIFFUSION
  • The importance of country of origin in marketing: Interview with Simon Holt (advertising executive)
  • Review these vignettes - part I
  • How external cues can influence consumer behaviour
  • What are country of origin effects and why are they important?
  • Affective aspects of the country of origin effect
  • Normative aspects of the country of origin effect
  • Test your knowledge on country of origin effects
  • IDENTIFYING THE END USER AND SECURING ENGAGEMENT
  • Challenges for clinicians adopting innovations: Interview with Prof James Barlow
  • How can engagement be secured - the case of the Arbutus drill
  • Why innovations fail: Interview with Prof James Barlow
  • Who are these innovations for? - part II
  • Test your knowledge identifying the end user and securing engagement

Summary of User Reviews

This course on healthcare innovation has received positive reviews from many users. They found the course to be informative and engaging, with practical examples that they could apply in their work. Overall, users recommend the course to anyone interested in healthcare innovation.

Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course

Many users appreciated the practical examples and case studies provided in the course.

Pros from User Reviews

  • Informative and engaging course
  • Practical examples and case studies provided
  • Useful for anyone interested in healthcare innovation
  • Great instructor who is knowledgeable and responsive

Cons from User Reviews

  • Some users found the course content to be too basic
  • Not enough emphasis on specific healthcare sectors
  • Limited interaction with other students
  • No certification provided at the end of the course
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Dr Matthew Harris
Imperial College London
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