HealthTech

OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS

Students participating in the course will: 1) Learn about opportunities to create and capture value in the health, wellness, and personal resiliency sectors. 2) Develop tools and methods to implement practices in their workplaces that contribute to wellness and resiliency among all employees. 3) Apply wellness tools and practices in their own lives.

ACCEPTABLE NON-ROSS STUDENTS: Pharm Grad or Pharm PhD or Biomed Eng Grad or Biomed Eng PhD or Bio PhD or Chem PhD or Physics PhD or MPH or Pub Health PhD

This interdisciplinary course introduces graduate students to the key issues faced by companies attempting to bring science and technology innovations in biomedical therapeutics, devices, and diagnostics to market. Because the details of doing this change, the course will present not just current practices but also the rationales behind those practices and more general, analytic frameworks that students will be able to use when specific industry conditions change.

OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS

This course explores the basics surrounding a new business development model in the world of pharmacy and healthcare. Topics include ventures into new drugs, delivery systems for medication, as well as community and social pharmacy with a key emphasis on intellectual property rights and marketing.

ACCEPTABLE PROGRAMS: MPH or MHSA

This is a case-based course that takes a macro-level view of the health care industry and seeks to understand, analyze, and craft winning strategies for the organizations that compete in the health care industry. Health care industry participants sectors addressed include: insurance companies, large employers, academic medical centers, integrated delivery systems / hospitals, long-term care / hospice, and pharmaceutical companies.

OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS

Healthcare Innovation and Startups is an action-based course in which students will identify big problems in healthcare and start solving them with a new venture proposal. Students study healthcare trends and challenges, learn methods to explore healthcare domains, identify and understand needs, and develop startup hypotheses

Learning and Education Technology at the School of Information (LETSI) exists for those interested in intersection of People, Technology, and Learning/Education. The primary mission of LETSI is to promote collaboration between designers and practitioners interested in EdTech and build a community to facilitate such collaboration.

Founded in 2006, M-HEAL (Michigan Health Engineered for All Lives) is a student organization at the University of Michigan that fosters interdisciplinary work in global health and design with under-served communities using human-centered design philosophy.

Medical Innovations Group is a community of graduate students and faculty at the University of Michigan who are excited about solving big problems in health and medicine with a combination of technology and business. MIG provides educational seminars, networking coffee sessions and connects students with projects and mentors.

MedLaunch is a community of students at the University of Michigan passionate about healthcare and biomedical innovation. Students of different backgrounds from Engineering, LSA, STAMPS, the School of Music, and many more participate in a year-long Biodesign Challenge to develop assistive technologies for local community partners with disabilities, in an effort to solve problems commonly faced by these individuals.