A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice
This course reflects on global health challenges and the role of innovative solutions in addressing them. By engaging in this course, you will be able to describe the principles and key types of innovation in order to characterise the fundamental features of new models of care and technologies. This course will review the basic features and principles of healthcare innovation.
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- Level Foundation
- Duration 20 hours
- Course by Imperial College London
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This course reflects on global health challenges and the role of innovative solutions in addressing them. By engaging in this course, you will be able to describe the principles and key types of innovation in order to characterise the fundamental features of new models of care and technologies. 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.Modules
Welcome
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- Nice to meet you!
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- Welcome to Global Health Innovation
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- About Imperial College
- About the Global Health Innovations Team
- How to be successful in this course?
- Grading Policy
- Glossary
What is innovation?
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- Is it an innovation or not?
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- What is innovation?
- What are your expectations of this course?
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- Innovation and invention: what is the difference?
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- What is an innovation?
What makes an innovation, an innovation?
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- What makes an innovation, an innovation?
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- What are some ways to classify an innovation?
- Should innovation always occur?
Check your Understanding
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- Test your knowledge on innovation
Disruptive innovation - What is it? Why is it important?
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- Defining disruptive innovation
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- What are disruptive innovations?
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- Is Uber a disruptive innovation?
- Are these disruptive innovations? - check your answers
Frugal innovation - What is it? Why is it important?
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- Are these frugal innovations? Part II
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- The importance of frugal innovations
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- The development of a frugal innovation - Arbutus Drill: Interview with Florin Gheorghe
- An expert's views on the meaning of frugal innovation: Interview with Dr Yasser Bhatti
- Defining characteristics of frugal innovation: Interview with Dr Yasser Bhatti
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- Defining frugal innovation
- The ten core competencies of frugal innovation
Reverse innovation - What is it? Why important?
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- What is a reverse innovation?
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- What is reverse innovation?
- The challenge of reverse innovation
Check your Understanding
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- Test your knowledge on disruptive, frugal and reverse innovation
Design thinking for innovation
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PeerReview
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- Review your peers' evaluations of the products
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- Find the missing steps in the design process
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- Design thinking
- Design thinking in healthcare: Interview with Matt Harrison
- Challenges in design projects: Interview with Matt Harrison
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- Design Thinking
Commercialisation
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- What do you think is needed to commercialise a product?
- Does the type of enterprise matter? Part I
- Does the type of enterprise matter? Part II
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- The process of making an innovation available
- Arbutus Drill going to market: Interview with Florin Gheorghe
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- Arbutus Drill - who’s involved in the enterprise?
Check your understanding
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- Test your knowledge on product development and commercialisation
Introduction to Diffusion and Scaling
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- The limitations of Rogers' framework
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- Diffusion of innovations
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- Rogers' framework for the diffusion of innovation
- Critiquing Rogers' framework
Adopting the Arbutus drill into practice - a worked example
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- Would the Arbutus drill be suitable in your setting?
- With whom would you secure support for the Arbutus drill?
- What would you do to implement the Arbutus drill?
Check your understanding
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- Test your knowledge on diffusion and scaling
Auto Summary
Explore the transformative world of healthcare with "A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice." This foundational course delves into the intricate landscape of health and fitness, focusing on innovative solutions to tackle global health challenges. Led by expert instructors from Coursera, the course provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and various types of healthcare innovation. Throughout this engaging 20-hour journey, learners will analyze a range of innovations, from low-cost technologies suitable for resource-limited settings to sophisticated combinations of organizational, business model, and technological advancements. The course also addresses the critical factors influencing the adoption and diffusion of these innovations, including social, economic, and political elements. Ideal for individuals seeking to understand the essentials of healthcare innovation, this course is perfect for those at the foundational level and offers flexible subscription options, including Starter and Professional plans. Join this enriching educational experience to gain valuable insights into the practices required to implement healthcare innovations effectively on a large scale.
Dr Matthew Harris