University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Healthcare Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Specialization
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Healthcare Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Specialization

Innovating Healthcare: Strategy to Impact. Learners will employ business principles to healthcare innovations to solve healthcare problems.

Elias Kourpas
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
Sridhar Seshadri

Instructors: Elias Kourpas

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Intermediate level

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3 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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Build toward a degree

What you'll learn

  • Drive healthcare innovation by applying design thinking, business strategy, analytics, and trend analysis with a user-focused mindset.

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Specialization - 6 course series

Understanding the Healthcare Ecosystem

Understanding the Healthcare Ecosystem

Course 115 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify diverse stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.

  • Analyze healthcare value chains, through roles and interrelationships of various stakeholders and their contributions and impacts within the system.

  • Define innovation processes as they apply to healthcare systems.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Innovation
Category: Health Systems
Category: Supply Chain Management
Category: Patient Flow
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Health Policy
Category: Value-Based Care
Category: Market Dynamics
Category: Process Improvement
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Information Technology
Category: Business Analysis
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Health Care
Healthcare Innovation: Need/Opportunity Identification

Healthcare Innovation: Need/Opportunity Identification

Course 216 hours

What you'll learn

  • The critical role of need identification in driving impactful healthcare innovation

  • Tools and methods for analyzing healthcare systems, meaningfully engaging stakeholders, and validating and prioritizing healthcare needs

  • Validating healthcare needs based on strategic, clinical, operational, and user-based criteria

  • Evaluating innovation opportunities based on evidence, feasibility, and organizational alignment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Return On Investment
Category: Innovation
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Health Care Procedure and Regulation
Category: Planning
Category: Decision Making
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: User Research
Category: Process Analysis
Category: New Product Development
Category: Health Technology
Understanding the Healthcare Innovation Process I

Understanding the Healthcare Innovation Process I

Course 319 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify delivery gaps, ideate, and evaluate potential new products and processes using the healthcare innovation process.

  • Conduct thorough market trend analysis, demand forecasting, and financial assessments in the context of healthcare innovation.

  • Recognize regulatory requirements in healthcare innovation, including design control for product and process approvals.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Product Development
Category: Risk Management
Category: Financial Analysis
Category: Waterfall Methodology
Category: Project Management
Category: Innovation
Category: Forecasting
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Agile Methodology
Category: Health Technology
Category: Return On Investment
Category: Project Planning
Category: Cost Benefit Analysis
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Regulatory Requirements
Category: Market Opportunities
Category: New Product Development
Category: Industrial Design
Category: Market Analysis
Category: User Requirements Documents
Understanding the Healthcare Innovation Process II

Understanding the Healthcare Innovation Process II

Course 417 hours

What you'll learn

  • Analyze healthcare delivery processes using performance metrics, process mapping, and process analysis.

  • Apply statistical tools, such as hypothesis testing, to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.

  • Design and evaluate data-driven interventions using quality improvement frameworks such as Lean Six Sigma.

  • Assess the operational implications of healthcare innovations across service models, with attention to scalability, access, and clinical impact.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Process Improvement
Category: Statistical Process Controls
Category: Probability & Statistics
Category: Innovation
Category: Lean Six Sigma
Category: Continuous Improvement Process
Category: Operational Analysis
Category: Operations Management
Category: Statistical Methods
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Performance Improvement
Healthcare Business Strategy and New Venture Design

Healthcare Business Strategy and New Venture Design

Course 517 hours

What you'll learn

  • Use appropriate strategic and business planning skills to lead and innovate within the healthcare sector.

  • Develop and implement sustainable business models for creating and capturing value through healthcare ventures.

  • Demonstrate the ability to build and manage effective teams for new healthcare ventures and within healthcare systems.

  • Identify the intricacies of engaging with potential investors and the availability of various financing options for healthcare ventures.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Fundraising
Category: Product Development
Category: New Business Development
Category: Market Analysis
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Market Opportunities
Category: Competitive Analysis
Category: Business Planning
Category: Healthcare Industry Knowledge
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Business Valuation
Category: Health Care Administration
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Innovation
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Team Building
Category: Regulatory Compliance
The Future of Healthcare and Emerging Trends

The Future of Healthcare and Emerging Trends

Course 615 hours

What you'll learn

  • Transformative ideas, innovations, and trends currently reshaping healthcare delivery

  • Emerging business models and novel information technologies that could potentially disrupt and transform the healthcare sector

  • Using theoretical frameworks and applied knowledge to address and adapt to future challenges and advances in healthcare delivery and management

Skills you'll gain

Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Health Equity
Category: Community Health
Category: Social Determinants Of Health
Category: Behavioral Economics
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Consumer Behaviour
Category: Health Administration

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

 

Instructors

Elias Kourpas
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2 Courses294 learners
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4 Courses94,737 learners
Sridhar Seshadri
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4 Courses17,375 learners

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