A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice

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A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice

This course is part of Global Health Innovations Specialization

Instructor: Dr Matthew Harris

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

218 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

Flexible schedule

2 weeks at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

96%

Most learners liked this course

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.
Consider the key factors that influence the adoption and scaling up of different types of healthcare innovations

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There are 4 modules in this course

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.

You will learn the difference between innovation and invention and the steps involved in the process of innovation. You'll also be provided with an overview of the challenges in healthcare innovation, the difference between technology for health and health technology, and the ways an innovation can be categorised.

What's included

3 videos8 readings2 assignments3 discussion prompts3 plugins

3 videosTotal 14 minutes

Welcome to Global Health Innovation4 minutes
Innovation and invention: what is the difference?6 minutes
What makes an innovation, an innovation?4 minutes

8 readingsTotal 240 minutes

About Imperial College 5 minutes
About the Global Health Innovations Team10 minutes
How to be successful in this course?10 minutes
Grading Policy10 minutes
Glossary10 minutes
What is an innovation?90 minutes
What are some ways to classify an innovation?60 minutes
Should innovation always occur?45 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 50 minutes

Is it an innovation or not?20 minutes
Test your knowledge on innovation30 minutes

3 discussion promptsTotal 60 minutes

Nice to meet you!20 minutes
What is innovation?20 minutes
What are your expectations of this course?20 minutes

3 pluginsTotal 40 minutes

Poll: Reflect on innovation15 minutes
Results: Reflect on innovation10 minutes
Applying Henderson & Clark's Matrix15 minutes

You will learn about the different types of innovation that exist including disruptive, frugal and reverse innovation.

What's included

6 videos4 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt3 plugins

6 videosTotal 31 minutes

What are disruptive innovations?6 minutes
The development of a frugal innovation - Arbutus Drill: Interview with Florin Gheorghe8 minutes
An expert's views on the meaning of frugal innovation: Interview with Dr Yasser Bhatti 3 minutes
Defining characteristics of frugal innovation: Interview with Dr Yasser Bhatti 5 minutes
What is reverse innovation?4 minutes
The challenge of reverse innovation5 minutes

4 readingsTotal 155 minutes

Is Uber a disruptive innovation?45 minutes
Are these disruptive innovations? - check your answers10 minutes
Defining frugal innovation10 minutes
The ten core competencies of frugal innovation90 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 80 minutes

Defining disruptive innovation20 minutes
Are these frugal innovations? Part II20 minutes
What is a reverse innovation?10 minutes
Test your knowledge on disruptive, frugal and reverse innovation30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 20 minutes

The importance of frugal innovations20 minutes

3 pluginsTotal 45 minutes

Test your understanding of disruptive innovation15 minutes
Are these disruptive innovations?15 minutes
Are these frugal innovations? Part I15 minutes

You will learn about design thinking, what is involved in the design process, what is required to take a product to market, and the differences between key roles in a business (e.g. CEO vs COO).

What's included

5 videos2 readings1 assignment1 peer review4 discussion prompts2 plugins

5 videosTotal 42 minutes

Design thinking6 minutes
Design thinking in healthcare: Interview with Matt Harrison14 minutes
Challenges in design projects: Interview with Matt Harrison8 minutes
The process of making an innovation available5 minutes
Arbutus Drill going to market: Interview with Florin Gheorghe10 minutes

2 readingsTotal 65 minutes

Design Thinking45 minutes
Arbutus Drill - who’s involved in the enterprise?20 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Test your knowledge on product development and commercialisation30 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 60 minutes

Review your peers' evaluations of the products60 minutes

4 discussion promptsTotal 40 minutes

Find the missing steps in the design process10 minutes
What do you think is needed to commercialise a product?10 minutes
Does the type of enterprise matter? Part I10 minutes
Does the type of enterprise matter? Part II10 minutes

2 pluginsTotal 30 minutes

Evaluate the design of these products15 minutes
Developing an enterprise - a glossary of terms15 minutes

You will learn about diffusion, the strengths and limitations of Rogers' framework explaining the S-curve, and factors that affect the diffusion of an innovation through Rogers' and Greenhalgh et al.'s frameworks.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 assignment4 discussion prompts5 plugins

1 videoTotal 5 minutes

Diffusion of innovations5 minutes

2 readingsTotal 50 minutes

Rogers' framework for the diffusion of innovation20 minutes
Critiquing Rogers' framework30 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Test your knowledge on diffusion and scaling30 minutes

4 discussion promptsTotal 40 minutes

The limitations of Rogers' framework10 minutes
Would the Arbutus drill be suitable in your setting?10 minutes
With whom would you secure support for the Arbutus drill?10 minutes
What would you do to implement the Arbutus drill?10 minutes

5 pluginsTotal 75 minutes

What are the challenges to diffusion and scaling?15 minutes
Understanding Greenhalgh's framework15 minutes
Test your knowledge of the S-curve15 minutes
Test your knowledge of innovation features needed for scaling15 minutes
The Arbutus drill cover system and NHS15 minutes

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Reviewed on Sep 10, 2020

The content was good. I wish there were links to the reading materials.

Reviewed on Jan 11, 2022

I recommend this course to all those who want to join the rest of the world in improving the health care system via innovations. Here you will get all basics and advanced skills on how to start.

Reviewed on Jan 21, 2021

It was a great knowledge input which will surely help me in future. Sincere thanks to Imperial College London & Coursera for creating this learning opportunity.

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