Healthcare Innovation: What Does Success Look Like and How to Achieve It?

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Healthcare Innovation: What Does Success Look Like and How to Achieve It?

This course is part of Global Health Innovations Specialization

Instructor: Dr Matthew Harris

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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2 weeks to complete

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Flexible schedule

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

71 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Consider key factors influencing the adoption and scaling up of different healthcare innovations so as to examine what success looks like.
Analyse how organizational structure, culture and resources are key in adoption in relation to organizational contexts.
Examine how cognitive, normative and affective aspects can influence perception regarding an innovation's attractiveness and scaleability.
Apply persuasive techniques to connect to audiences involved in the process of innovation scaling and adoption.

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Healthcare Project Management

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There are 4 modules in this course

This course focuses on the factors involved in the adoption of innovation - features, organizations, country of origin, cognitive, normative and affective aspects, change agents. Using real-world health innovations, you'll assess what impacts their scaleability to new contexts, how organizational and human characteristics affect adoption, to what extent diffusion of an innovation is influenced by unconscious bias. You'll also delve into the process of adopting an innovation within a clinical setting and why it's so important to know who your 'change agents' are. As started in the second course of this specialisation, Healthcare Entrepreneurship: Taking Ideas to Market, you'll revisit the skill of pitching, exploring why and how to adapt pitches depending on your audience.

By the end of this course, you'll feel able to judge the success of innovation projects; analyse how organizational structure, culture and resources are key in adoption; make recommendations for adoption in relation to organizational contexts; demonstrate how cognitive, normative and affective aspects can influence perception regarding an innovation's attractiveness and scaleability; and apply persuasive techniques to connect to audiences involved in the process of innovation scaling and adoption.

You will learn about the key features of an innovation which affect its adoption and assess this by drawing on two real-world innovations (robotic surgery and community health workers in Brazil).

What's included

4 videos10 readings1 assignment1 peer review3 discussion prompts5 plugins

4 videos Total 38 minutes

Welcome to Global Health Innovation 4 minutes
Factors affecting adoption of an innovation 5 minutes
Robotic surgery: Interview with Hutan Ashrafian 16 minutes
The Brazilian Family Health Strategy: Interview with Antonio Ribas 13 minutes

10 readings Total 205 minutes

About Imperial College 5 minutes
About the Global Health Innovations Team 10 minutes
How to be successful in this course? 10 minutes
Grading Policy 10 minutes
Glossary 10 minutes
Innovation features required for success 10 minutes
Two successful innovations? Brazil's Family Health Strategy and Robotic Surgery 30 minutes
Innovation Features and Scalability - Part I 45 minutes
Innovation Features and Scalability - Part II 45 minutes
Comparing the two innovations - Community Health Workers and Robotic Surgery 30 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Test your knowledge of features of innovations required for success 30 minutes

1 peer review Total 120 minutes

Comparing the two innovations - Community Health Workers and Robotic Surgery 120 minutes

3 discussion prompts Total 40 minutes

Nice to meet you! 10 minutes
Key Features of an Innovation 10 minutes
What makes an innovation successful? 20 minutes

5 plugins Total 80 minutes

Which innovation seems most successful? - Poll 10 minutes
Which innovation seems most successful? - Results 15 minutes
Test your knowledge on features of innovations required for success 25 minutes
Comparing the two innovations - Robotic Surgery and Community Health Workers 15 minutes
Comparing the two innovations - Results 15 minutes

You will learn about the features of an organisation as well as the human characteristics that affect an innovation's adoption.

What's included

2 videos4 readings1 assignment4 discussion prompts

2 videos Total 8 minutes

Organisation features that affect adoption of an innovation 4 minutes
Characteristics of people that affect the adoption of an innovation 4 minutes

4 readings Total 180 minutes

Surgical robots and community health workers in context 30 minutes
Organisational features that facilitate adoption of innovations 30 minutes
Human factors that contribute to the spread and non-spread of innovation - Part I 60 minutes
Human factors that contribute to the spread and non-spread of innovation - Part II 60 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Test your knowledge on organisational and human factors that affect adoption of an innovation 30 minutes

4 discussion prompts Total 60 minutes

Organisational features that impact on innovation adoption 10 minutes
Thinking about context and adoption of an innovation 20 minutes
The importance of human factors 10 minutes
Reflect on human factors from your own experience or context 20 minutes

You will learn about Country of Origin affects and how cognitive, normative and affective aspects can affect the diffusion of an innovation including unconscious bias.

What's included

1 video5 readings1 assignment3 discussion prompts1 plugin

1 video Total 22 minutes

The importance of country of origin in marketing: Interview with Simon Holt (advertising executive) 22 minutes

5 readings Total 230 minutes

Review these vignettes - part I 20 minutes
How external cues can influence consumer behaviour 30 minutes
What are country of origin effects and why are they important? 60 minutes
Affective aspects of the country of origin effect 60 minutes
Normative aspects of the country of origin effect 60 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Test your knowledge on country of origin effects 30 minutes

3 discussion prompts Total 60 minutes

Review these vignettes - part II 20 minutes
Reflect on your own unconscious bias in innovation adoption 20 minutes
Reflect on your own affective responses to countries 20 minutes

1 plugin Total 15 minutes

What comes to mind when you think about these countries? 15 minutes

You will learn about the process of adopting an innovation within a clinical setting, including identifying who the change agents are and how you would adapt a pitch based upon your audience.

What's included

3 videos1 reading1 assignment2 discussion prompts1 plugin

3 videos Total 12 minutes

Challenges for clinicians adopting innovations: Interview with Prof James Barlow 4 minutes
How can engagement be secured - the case of the Arbutus drill 4 minutes
Why innovations fail: Interview with Prof James Barlow 3 minutes

1 reading Total 45 minutes

Who are these innovations for? - part II 45 minutes

1 assignment Total 30 minutes

Test your knowledge identifying the end user and securing engagement 30 minutes

2 discussion prompts Total 30 minutes

How would you secure engagement for an innovation? 20 minutes
Pitch your innovation 10 minutes

1 plugin Total 20 minutes

Who are these innovations for? - part I 20 minutes

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