Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship

About this course: This interdisciplinary course focuses on sustainable innovation, introducing entrepreneurial students to the realities of problem identification and solution design within the complex world of healthcare.

Created by:  Duke University

• Taught by:  Marilyn M. Lombardi, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor

  School of Nursing

• Taught by:  Bob Barnes, PhD, Instructor

  Biomedical Engineering

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Syllabus


WEEK 1


Innovating in Healthcare
How do physicians see and interpret the patient? Can physicians observe without judging? Are there more cost effective ways of disease prevention and treatment? What role does innovation play? How can an entrepreneurial approach improve healthcare?


11 videos, 11 readings expand

1. Reading: Course Overview
2. Reading: Instruction for Making a Healthcare Notebook
3. Reading: Readings
4. Reading: Slides Handouts for Healthcare Dilemma
5. Video: The Healthcare Dilemma Part 1
6. Video: The Healthcare Dilemma Part 2
7. Video: The Healthcare Dilemma Part 3A
8. Video: The Healthcare Dilemma Part 3B
9. Video: The Healthcare Dilemma Part 4
10. Reading: Readings
11. Reading: Slide Handouts for the Innovation Process
12. Video: The Innovation Process Part A
13. Video: The Innovation Process Part B
14. Reading: Readings
15. Reading: Slide Handouts for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
16. Video: Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship Part A
17. Video: Healthcare Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship Part B
18. Reading: Readings
19. Reading: Slide Handouts for Healthcare Engineering
20. Video: What is Healthcare Engineering Part A
21. Video: What is Healthcare Engineering Part B
22. Reading: Readings

Graded: Week 1 Quiz

WEEK 2


Finding What's Needed
What are the key elements of disease fundamentals? What are our treatment options? What is the most objective method to observe and document the disease process? Can treatment methods be understood through process improvement?


8 videos, 7 readings expand

1. Reading: Slide Handouts for Disease Fundamentals and Treatment Options
2. Video: Disease Fundamentals and Treatment Options Part A
3. Video: Disease Fundamental and Treatment Part B
4. Reading: Readings
5. Reading: Slide Handouts for Observe and Document without Critiquing
6. Reading: Instruction for Making a Healthcare Notebook
7. Video: Observe and Document without Critiquing Part A
8. Video: Observe and Document Without Critiquing Part B
9. Video: Observe and Document Without Critiquing Part C
10. Reading: Readings
11. Reading: Slide Handouts for Uncover Patterns Through Six Sigma and Process Mapping
12. Video: Uncover Patterns Through Six Sigma and Process Mapping Part A
13. Video: Uncover Patterns Through Six Sigma and Process Mapping Part B
14. Reading: Readings
15. Video: Week 2 Concluding Conversation

Graded: Week 2 Quiz

WEEK 3


Prioritizing Needs
What is the full cycle of care? How do you prioritize needs? How do you specify needs? How do you prepare a Need Statement?


6 videos, 6 readings expand

1. Reading: Slide Handouts for Cycle of Care
2. Video: Prioritizing Needs: Seeing the Full Cycle of Care Part A
3. Video: Prioritizing Needs: Seeing the Full Cycle of Care Part B
4. Reading: Readings
5. Reading: Slide Handouts for Specifying Needs
6. Video: How to Specify Needs
7. Reading: Reading
8. Reading: Slide Handouts for Prioritizing Needs
9. Video: How to Prioritize Needs
10. Reading: Reading
11. Video: Understanding the Clinical Context: A Conversation with Dr Mike Scott
12. Video: Week 3 Concluding Conversation

Graded: Week 3 Quiz
Graded: Need Statement and Validation Paragraph

WEEK 4


Sizing Up the Market
Who are your stakeholders? Can you identify them? Are all stakeholders equally important? How do you analyze a market? What methods and sources do you use?


7 videos, 6 readings expand

1. Reading: Slide Handouts for Stakeholder Analysis
2. Video: Stakeholder Analysis Part A
3. Video: Stakeholder Analysis Part B
4. Reading: Readings
5. Reading: Slide Handouts for Market Analysis
6. Video: Market Analysis Part A
7. Video: Market Analysis Part B
8. Video: Market Analysis Part C
9. Reading: Reading
10. Reading: Slide Handouts for Introduction to Marketing
11. Video: Introduction to Marketing
12. Reading: Readings
13. Video: Week 4 Concluding Conversation

Graded: Week 4 Quiz

WEEK 5


Designing an Innovation
What approaches work best for design creation? Is "Brainstorming" an actual process? How do you select the "best fit" design from competing choices? How do you assess the operating environment? Is regulation always bad? Do you have a reimbursement plan?


6 videos, 6 readings expand

1. Reading: Slide Handouts for Conceptualzation
2. Video: Concept Creation
3. Video: Concept Selection
4. Reading: Readings
5. Reading: Slide Handouts for Operating Enviroment
6. Video: Freedom to Operate
7. Video: Regulatory Issues
8. Reading: Reading
9. Reading: Slide Handouts for Reimbursements
10. Video: Reimbursement Basics
11. Reading: Readings
12. Video: Week 5 Concluding Conversation

Graded: Week 5 Quiz
Graded: Revised Need Statement, Basic Market Assessment, and Basic Stakeholder Assessment

WEEK 6


Gaining Commitment
How do you gain commitment from your stakeholders? Do you have the tools to advocate for your proposal? Do you have a viable business model?


4 videos, 4 readings expand

1. Reading: Slide Handouts for Advocacy Tools
2. Video: Advocacy Tools Part A
3. Video: Advocacy Tools Part B
4. Reading: Readings
5. Reading: Slide Handouts for Business Models
6. Video: Business Models
7. Reading: Readings
8. Video: Week 6 Concluding Conversation

Graded: Week 6 Quiz