Innovation & Applied Technology in Health Care

Catalog description

This course is offered to undergraduate and graduate students from across the Penn campus who want to join interdisciplinary teams that tackle health care challenges using technology in the form of games, apps, websites, or other technology. Students from nursing, engineering, computer science, design, marketing, or communication, or other schools or departments will be matched by interest and skill to multidisciplinary teams. Types of technology, theory of gaming, motivation, and incentives to change health behaviors are a few of the topics that may be identified as a project. The course provides a forum for germinating and developing conceptual models, programming, using game theory for therapeutic interventions, and entrepreneurship. Examples of such applications are medication management tools, health risk detectors, games that teach health skills and behaviors, e-prescribing applications, recruitment tools for greater diversity in nursing, applications that improve the workflow in health care settings, and applications that promote patient-centered care.