Through the voices of start-up and product leaders this course makes transparent what it takes to build a digital health product for healthcare customers large and small. It outlines the planning, resources, process, and team needed to get a healthcare technology product from idea to operational at a customer site. Get to know the range of possible software products and team roles associated with them, walk through the healthcare software design process, learn the key steps for healthcare software product planning, and then find out what it takes to deploy at a customer site. Start-up leaders share moments that made them pause, question what they knew, and knowledge they’d bestow on future start-up leaders throughout the course. Product leaders in healthcare reframe the software development process from the perspective of the healthcare industry, a space with unique stakeholders, customers, and users. Leave with a map of how to build technology and a product out of your digital health software concept.
Healthcare technology is reframed in this module as a product. We begin by exploring product possibilities, acknowledging the hierarchy, types, and care categories these products can touch. An overview of roles in creating healthcare products follows. Digital Health start-up leaders also introduce their stories and talk about early product strategy, including an approach to scaling and when to pivot. This week also includes an introduction to human-centered healthcare technology design for products.
Healthcare Technology Product Hierarchy: Types of Digital Healthcare Products•5 minutes
Healthcare Technology Product Hierarchy: Digital Health Product Categories in Care Settings•3 minutes
Product Roles in a Healthcare Technology Start-Up: Joining a Product Team•8 minutes
Product Roles in a Healthcare Technology Start-Up: Product Roles•7 minutes
Product Roles in a Healthcare Technology Start-Up: The Chief Product Officer and Building an Effective Product•7 minutes
The Analytical Informatics Story•3 minutes
The Incremental Approach to Scaling•5 minutes
How to Pivot in Healthcare Tech (emocha)•6 minutes
Design Thinking Overview•7 minutes
Planning a Design Sprint•9 minutes
Importance of Design Thinking in Healthcare Software•7 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 1 Quiz•30 minutes
Design Thinking for Healthcare Software
Module 2•2 hours to complete
Module details
Use this module to design your healthcare technology by following the major steps of the design thinking process with modifications for digital health. Find out about design research techniques that are applicable to healthcare products, add activities to your toolkit for synthesizing research and brainstorming with a product team, explore the patterns and process behind wireframing digital health applications, and prepare to prototype your technology. This week will leave you with a design plan to get your digital health product ideas out of your head and on paper.
What's included
13 videos1 assignment
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13 videos•Total 84 minutes
Module 2 Introduction•1 minute
What is Design Research?•5 minutes
Secondary Research•7 minutes
Primary Design Research•8 minutes
Steps to Synthesis•8 minutes
Ideation Overview•7 minutes
Brainstorming Norms•7 minutes
What is Wireframing?•8 minutes
Interface and Navigation Patterns•8 minutes
Wireframing Tips•6 minutes
What is a Prototype?•6 minutes
Range of Prototypes•5 minutes
Prototype Testing•6 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 2 Quiz•30 minutes
Digital Health Product Planning
Module 3•2 hours to complete
Module details
This module will take you through the key steps for before, during, and after development of your digital health product with a software team. Start by learning how to identify healthcare stakeholders and map them with a product team. Discover project management methods for agile software development and explore the tools behind them. Walk through a project plan and creating user stories for your software development team, and see what it takes to prepare for deployment of your technology at a customer site.
What's included
12 videos1 assignment
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12 videos•Total 69 minutes
Module 3 Introduction•1 minute
Stakeholder Engagement and Common Failures•4 minutes
Who Are Health IT Stakeholders?•7 minutes
Stakeholder Mapping•4 minutes
Project Management Overview•3 minutes
Tools for Agile Project Management•8 minutes
Agile Software Development•9 minutes
Project Planning, Part 1•5 minutes
Project Planning, Part 2•5 minutes
User Stories•10 minutes
Deployment Planning, Part 1•5 minutes
Deployment Planning, Part 2•9 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Module 3 Quiz•30 minutes
Planning for Integration and Implementation with a Customer
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
Hear from three start-up leaders as they talk through challenges and approaches to implementing their technology with a customer. This module presents the different challenges of working with large and small health system customers, moving from one-to-many customers, evaluating your technology medically, and integrating your technology with existing systems. Find out electronic medical integration, and how to avoid common roadblocks when implementing your technology at a customer site.
What's included
12 videos1 assignment
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12 videos•Total 61 minutes
Module 4 Introduction•1 minute
Introduction to Oncospace•4 minutes
Differences in Technology Preferences Among Large and Small Health Systems•3 minutes
Importance of Patience with Healthcare Customers•5 minutes
Overview of Hospital Information Systems•6 minutes
Considerations for Integration with the EMR•9 minutes
Common Roadblocks Healthcare Startups Encounter•10 minutes
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