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The Healthcare Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate integrates key concepts from new product development, data analytics, design thinking, and entrepreneurship to provide learners with a comprehensive foundation in the healthcare innovation process. Through this program, learners will be able to identify healthcare challenges and design innovative solutions that have a higher likelihood of success. Moreover, you will learn to make informed decisions grounded in data analysis and inferences, while also cultivating your design thinking skills.

Benefit from live, interactive learning sessions with instructors and receive actionable feedback from teaching staff and fellow learners. Through hands-on projects, exercises, and case studies, you’ll develop experience and insight in value chain management that you can apply immediately in your career.

The certificate stacks directly into the full Master of Business Administration (iMBA), Master of Science in Accountancy (iMSA), or Master of Science in Management (iMSM) from the University of Illinois.

Syllabus

Course 1: MBA 571: Identify - Healthcare Ecosystem and Need Identification
- An overview of the healthcare ecosystem, the healthcare innovation process, and value creation. Emphasis is placed on key concepts and principles essential for efficiently designing and managing healthcare delivery systems. Focused on uncovering innovation opportunities through in-depth identification and analysis of unmet, underserved, and unarticulated stakeholder needs using qualitative, analytical, and design thinking methodologies. Emphasizes critical thinking and creativity and prepares students to recognize and select opportunities that can be developed into successful innovations.

Course 2: MBA 572: Innovate - Healthcare Innovation Processes
- Guides students through the healthcare innovation process, from ideation and concept generation to product and process design and development. Students will learn how to balance cost, quality, and usability in product development and how to integrate technology trends, user feedback, and various analyses for concept development and business case preparation. An in-depth exploration of principles and methodologies for rapid and efficient prototyping is included, as are the intricacies of process management and effective strategies for managing healthcare innovation.

Course 3: MBA 573: Implement - Healthcare Business Strategy and New Venture Implementation
- Equips learners with essential strategy and business skills to launch, manage, and grow successful ventures and prepare for disruption and change within the healthcare landscape. Students will learn to develop sustainable business models, create robust business plans, build and manage venture teams, explore financing options, and engage with investors in the healthcare ecosystem. Also explores the transformative ideas reshaping healthcare delivery and prepares students to evaluate those innovations to balance cost, quality, and access effectively.