Design Considerations for Health Technology

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand technology design choices that can impact a healthcare technology’s pathway to market

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The drivers, enablers, stakeholders, regulators, barriers and challenges to health innovation
• Entrepreneurial and management skills for health-technology based challenges

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Create a business plan to take a health-technology to market
• Explain the current regulatory guidelines associated with data, technology design and sharing between organisations, and health and care settings;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Create a business package for a technology that is built to get a device from inception to the end-user and market.

Stakeholders in health technology and the care pathway

Barriers to health technology adoption

Regulatory requirements for health technology

Device design methodologies

Understanding the market

Commercialisation of Medical Technologies

Ethics for testing and development

Responsible Research and Innovation

Prototype and scale-up manufacturing techniques/tools

Data protection considerations

Lectures and tutorials form the basis for the content delivery for this module.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.