Design Thinking in Healthcare Institute

Catalog description

Innovation, defined as a hypothesis-driven, testable, and disciplined strategy, is important for improving health and healthcare processes. Innovation includes the methodologies we use to solve problems, the systems, products and processes we create, social and digital technologies, as well as the way we communicate with our patients, their families, our colleagues and communities at-large. Employing new ways of thinking, such as with design thinking, opens possibilities for creating meaningful and innovative solutions. This course provides foundational content in design thinking and a disciplined approach to innovation as it applies to health and health care. Offered as an online classroom environment coupling synchronous interactive sessions with asynchronous foundational content, students learn innovative approaches for solving a variety of healthcare problems.