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Health Innovation and Evaluation

BU.881.706.31-32

Fall 1 2025

Course Description

This course focuses on emerging models of health care provision, including the role of information technology, mobile technologies, point of care diagnostics on a chip, health care at home, telemedicine, and technology-mediated innovations in health care for both consumers and providers. The course discusses various models of evaluation and how health care innovation is valued, funded, and commercialized.

Prerequisite(s)

No pre-requisites

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply the tools of business economics to appropriately analyze decision-making of health care organizations, entrepreneurs, and government regulators.

2. Develop and present critically a constructive style of analysis of issues in healthcare and other related industries.

3. Synthesize and integrate current research literature on value in health care innovation into business discourse and apply the research to issues in health care business decision making.

4. Apply lessons from class to real-life situations in the business of healthcare innovation and in the general economy.

5. Demonstrate competence in strategic, management, and marketing challenges facing promoters of health care innovation and new medical technology in different market settings.