HTH RS M 736 / Design Innovation for Health System Challenges

3 unit(s)

This course explores the complex challenges existing within our health system and teaches a design-innovation framework to identify solutions. It uses the aging population and increasing advanced chronic disease as the main case study. Initially, the course examines how major health care services are organized and financed in Ontario, Canada, how this affects care, and what are the strengths, challenges, and opportunities in the current system. The course then applies design innovation framework to generate system-level solutions. Students will work in groups to identify a problem, learn about its root causes through interviews, design a solution through analysis, and present a prototype.