Health Care In­nov­a­tion and Man­age­ment

Course content

Innovations in health care are made in different context, e.g., by firms as an instrument of competition, by non-profits organizations as instrument for improvement of their services or for reducing their costs, by medical professionals for improved care of their patients and even by patients and their informal caregivers who often innovate to cope with their health condition.

At the same time, the speed in which technology is advancing increases day by day. Artificial intelligence, robotics and big data have made an impact across all industries, but perhaps their greatest impact is in healthcare. As technology evolves in the healthcare field, hospitals and startups have found new ways to improve their offerings and revolutionize the industry.

In all these different contexts innovations are shaped by economic factors affecting the way they are conceived, developed, implemented, or accepted by their markets and its users.

This course enables students to understand the fundamental principles and main concepts of managing innovation, including some fundamental management frameworks, as well as the different ways of developing and managing an innovative culture, with a focus in the healthcare context. It will also provide students with a set of tools that will allow them to analyze innovations and to contribute to their managerial decision processes from this economic perspective.