There are no prerequisites, but consider:
Interest in healthcare, pharma, digital health, biotechnology, medicine, and the future of all these areas.
OPEN TO IE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE FOLLOWING DEGREES (SINGLE AND DUAL): OPEN TO ALL PROGRAMS
This course aims to introduce the worlds of healthcare, biotechnology, and digital health.
The course briefly discusses the current frontiers of biomedical, and then dives deep into the different businesses around care delivery (e.g. telemedicine, etc), innovative therapies (e.g. gene therapies), data and Artificial Intelligence in health (e.g. personalised medicine), digital health (e.g. Digital Therapeutics), etc. The different industries, such as the traditional big pharma, the smaller biomedical companies, biotechnology startups and digital health startups will then be explored. We will also explore how digital health is being taken up at different speeds in different world regions. Then, the course studies the economics of healthcare (i.e. why are drugs priced the way they are?), and the regulatory questions (i.e. how are drugs approved?). The course then analyses the evolving digital health policy and ethical landscape (AI, data, ethics, etc). As well, the course will invite 1-2 visiting lecturers to discuss issues around developing a succesful Digital Health start-up. This will be discussed from a very practical mindset, in order to understad where the trends are going.
At the end of the course, the students will be divided into groups and encouraged to ideate and present a healthcare-based business idea.
•Understand the flow of health innovations from research to real life use
•Understand the basics of disease, diagnosis, and treatment. -Discover how Digital Health can aid medicine.
•Understand the very basics of the pharma business
•Recognise the emerging importance of AI, data and emerging technologies in healthcare.
•Recognise the changes in the mindset of healthcare stakeholders after the Covid-19 crisis.
•Recognise the different key players in the healthcare landscape (big pharma, medtech companies, SMEs, startups).
•Be able to discuss the evolving nature of the patient, and what it means for future business models.
•Discuss different case studies and analyse factors towards their success.
•Design a healthcare startup idea, briefly discuss the science, and then think about regulation, data, business model and potential profitability.
