Healthcare Opportunities for System Level Solutions

Catalog description

This course will follow the Healthcare Innovation Theory and Application course. In this course, students will be instructed on how to use the principles o the first course and identify opportunities in healthcare (e.g., problems to be solved). Nurses and health care professionals work around problems every day. Yet, rarely are these workarounds viewed as system level opportunities for improvements. This course will emphasize the critical thinking and creativity needed to identify a problem, and instead of determining how to solve for one, focus on how one might be able to solve for the many. By the end of this course, students should feel confident in their ability to recognize opportunities and begin to move toward a system (e.g., organizational) level thinking instead of an individual level thinking. This course is focused on the individual as the innovator.