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A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice

Imperial College London

This course offers a comprehensive examination of healthcare innovation, delving into the principles, types, product development, and diffusion strategies. Participants will gain insights into addressing global health challenges through innovative solutions, exploring the influence of social, economic, and political factors on adoption and scaling. The engaging content is structured into modules, each focusing on key aspects of healthcare innovation.

  • Explore the fundamental features of new models of care and technologies
  • Consider the key factors influencing the adoption and scaling up of healthcare innovations
  • Review disruptive, frugal, and reverse innovations
  • Examine product development and commercialization in healthcare
  • Study diffusion of innovations and strategies for getting innovations into practice

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A Guide to Healthcare Innovation: Principles and Practice
Course Modules

This course is divided into four modules, each focusing on key aspects of healthcare innovation. Participants will explore the fundamental features of new models of care and technologies, disruptive, frugal, and reverse innovations, product development and commercialization, as well as diffusion strategies for getting innovations into practice effectively at scale.

INNOVATION VS. INVENTION

Welcome to the course on Global Health Innovation, where you will explore the difference between innovation and invention, examine various ways to classify innovation, and understand the importance of innovation in addressing global health challenges.

TYPES OF INNOVATION - DISRUPTIVE, FRUGAL AND REVERSE

Delve into disruptive, frugal, and reverse innovations, gaining insights into their defining characteristics, development process, and their significance in addressing global health challenges.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALISATION

Discover the principles of design thinking in healthcare, challenges in design projects, and the process of making an innovation available, along with the key steps involved in commercializing a healthcare product.

GETTING AN INNOVATION INTO PRACTICE

Explore the diffusion of innovations and strategies for getting innovations into practice effectively at scale, including critiquing Rogers' framework, understanding the challenges to diffusion and scaling, and identifying key factors influencing the adoption and scaling up of healthcare innovations.

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