Health Tech Innovator (Summer School)
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Charlotte Nelann Rabjerg | cnra@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support, Det Tekniske Fakultet |
Lykke Margot Ricard | lmri@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Innovation and Design Engineering, Institut for Teknologi og |
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Knud Bonnet Yderstræde | kyderstraede@health.sdu.dk | Klinisk Institut | |
Lykke Margot Ricard | lmri@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Innovation and Design Engineering, Institut for Teknologi og | |
Mette Juel Rothman | mjrothmann@health.sdu.dk | Klinisk Institut | |
Søren Jensen | soj@iti.sdu.dk | SDU Global Sustainable Production, Institut for Teknologi og Inn |
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Christina Pytlick | cpy@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support, Det Tekniske Fakultet |
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Learning objectives - Knowledge
- The healthcare ecosystem and innovation process
- User-driven innovation and other types of innovation processes; products, services and systems, in relation to health and healthcare
- IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) system and purpose in healthcare innovation
- CE marking (health, safety and environmental standards) for product sold within the European Economic Area
- Designing entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities
- Innovation management of multidisciplinary collaboration
Learning objectives - Skills
- To identify relevant problems in the healthcare system, generate ideas and develop a research design for an innovation process for developing potential solutions
- To generate ideas (solutions to a specific problem) and create different prototypes for health and healthcare innovation using SDU maker labs
- Use technology roadmapping as a platform for developing visual communication for the team’s innovation strategy
- Evaluate and critically reflect on processes and models used for prototyping healthtech innovation
- Evaluate and understand the innovation and entrepreneurial process in relation to healthcare and health technology
- Define own educational skills and competences that are be valuable in a health innovation process
- Perform a short presentation of a healthcare innovation (pitch)
Learning objectives - Competences
- Work with innovation processes for solving real life problems in healthcare systems
- Design an innovation process for healthtech using roadmapping
- Draft a business proposal based on a healthcare innovation
- Cooperate in a multidisciplinary team, to design and conduct health innovation process and utilize available resources in the process
- Integrate own professional skills and competences in a multidisciplinary context
- Communicate with peers and collaborate with different scientific disciplines
Content
The challenges of the healthcare systems are apparent. Lifespans are longer and disease trajectories have become more complicated and protracted. These socioeconomic factors create a lot of pressure of the current health care systems. In order for the system to be able to cope with the future challenges innovation is needed. Great opportunities lies in utilizing some of the new revolutionizing technologies, thus the purpose of this Summer course is to strengthen cooperation between healthcare professionals and engineers for solving healthcare challenge.
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The examination is based on an overall assessment of:
- Attendance (80 %)
- A complete portfolio according to specifications announced at the beginning of the course
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Please note that registration for this course is binding.
- Students from SDU-TEK (provided the course is approved as an elective on their study programmes ) and SDU-SUND
- Students from SDU-NAT provided the course is approved as an elective on their study programmes
- Other students from SDU-TEK, SDU-SUND, SDU-NAT or SDU-SAMF with pre-approval of credit transfer
- Other students from SDU-TEK
- Other students from SDU-NAT
- Other students from SDU
Note: If further selection criteria is needed this will be based on a first-come-first-served basis.