Overview
The workshop aims to equip health and medtech innovators, including healthcare professionals, researchers, engineers and budding healthcare entrepreneurs with knowledge relating to the product development competency under the Health and Medtech Innovation Skills and Competencies whitepaper.
This workshop will provide participants with a deeper appreciation of the design thinking approach to early-stage healthcare innovation by layering on a structured framework for empathizing with and identifying an unmet healthcare need, brainstorming, and evaluating ideas to develop well-defined and validated healthcare solutions.
By the end of the workshop, health and medtech innovators will be able to apply a structured design thinking approach to health and medtech innovation product development, focussing on identifying and analysing clinical unmet needs, inventing robust and sound concepts to address these needs, identifying key risks, and developing preliminary plans for testing and development.
Course Description & Learning Outcomes
By the end of this module, you should be able to
Demonstrate ability to apply design thinking and needs analysis to unmet healthcare/clinical needs
Articulate the necessary needs research by drafting a preliminary needs specification document
Apply ideation strategies to brainstorm possible healthcare solutions and where it would meet gaps in the patient/user journey
Screen concepts using relevant parameters pertinent to the innovation
Assess technology to design and develop functional proof-of-concept prototypes
Schedule
End Date: 13 Feb 2025, Thursday
Location: To be informed upon confirmation, NA
Skills Covered
PROFICIENCY LEVEL GUIDE
Beginner: Introduce the subject matter without the need to have any prerequisites.
Proficient: Requires learners to have prior knowledge of the subject.
Expert: Involves advanced and more complex understanding of the subject.
- Product Development (Proficiency level: Expert)
- Design Thinking (Proficiency level: Expert)
