Healthcare Innovation and Design
The healthcare sector is on the brink of a technology and data revolution. The application of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and big data to health care represent a tremendous opportunity for the growth of the economy. Moreover, health-care innovations can improve human health and reduce healthcare costs.
The Healthcare Innovation and Design Specialization certificate aims to equip professionals from a range of backgrounds such as engineering, design, nursing and other health professions with the technological knowledge/skills and inter-professional competencies to lead healthcare transformation. It addresses the fundamentals of data science, industrial design, built environment and emerging technologies with application to health care.
Students will develop foundational skills, upon which they can build, in the processes and practices of health innovation. This specialization also aims to provide experiential inter-professional learning as students with diverse backgrounds learn about healthcare innovation and design with and from each other.
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Residency Dates
**UCalgary will be offering all 2021 Winter & Spring/Summer courses on line.
Residency dates will continue as scheduled in a virtual format.
For details/information, please contact the course instructors for each respective certificate.
April 10, 2021
WINTER 2021
NURS 654
Full Day
May 15, 2021
SPRING 2021
NURS 656
Full Day
June 12, 2021
Spring 2021
NURS 656
Full Day
July 21, 2021
SUMMER 2021
NURS 658
3 days - July 21,22,23
July 22, 2021
SUMMER 2021
NURS 658
3 days - July 21,22,23
July 23, 2021
SUMMER 2021
NURS 658
3 days - July 21,22,23
Healthcare Innovation and Design Team
Sandra Davidson (Team Lead)
Dean, Faculty of Nursing
Professor, Faculty of Nursing
Nursing 652 - Fall 2021
Healthcare Information and Big Data
Introduces many of the key concepts and methods used in the management and use of large health-care data assets. Issues relating to access, confidentiality, privacy and data stewardship will be examined. Focus on application and implications of big data use within the health-care context; not intended as a methods course.
Instructor
Nursing 654 - Winter 2021
Design in Healthcare
Examines design in health care from a variety of facets. Principles and practices of industrial and architectural design will be explored. The process of design and development will be illustrated and opportunities for end-user participation within the design processes will be highlighted.
Instructor
Navjot Virk
Nursing 656 – Spring 2021
Emerging Technologies in Healthcare
A focused exploration of emerging trends and issues in health-care technology. Case studies and exemplars will be used to expand understanding of the intended and unintended consequences of the integration of technology in health care.
Instructor
Nursing 658 - Summer 2021
Specialized Health Design Project
Formulation of a health-care design project developed through team collaboration that addresses a real-life health-care challenge posed by industry partners and health-care leaders. Focus on improving quality of health care and application and synthesis of learning from previous courses.
Instructor
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