University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Healthcare Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Specialization
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Healthcare Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Specialization

Innovating Healthcare: Strategy to Impact. Learners will employ business principles to healthcare innovations to solve healthcare problems.

Elias Kourpas
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
Sridhar Seshadri

Instructors: Elias Kourpas

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Intermediate level

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2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

  • Drive healthcare innovation by applying design thinking, business strategy, analytics, and trend analysis with a user-focused mindset.

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October 2025

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Specialization - 6 course series

What you'll learn

  • Identify diverse stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.

  • Analyze healthcare value chains, through roles and interrelationships of various stakeholders and their contributions and impacts within the system.

  • Define innovation processes as they apply to healthcare systems.

Skills you'll gain

Innovation, Health Systems, Supply Chain Management, Digital Transformation, Patient Flow, Stakeholder Analysis, Health Policy, Health Care, Health Administration, Market Dynamics, Information Technology, Business Analysis, Process Improvement, Organizational Structure, Healthcare Industry Knowledge, and Operational Efficiency

What you'll learn

  • The critical role of need identification in driving impactful healthcare innovation

  • Tools and methods for analyzing healthcare systems, meaningfully engaging stakeholders, and validating and prioritizing healthcare needs

  • Validating healthcare needs based on strategic, clinical, operational, and user-based criteria

  • Evaluating innovation opportunities based on evidence, feasibility, and organizational alignment.

Skills you'll gain

Stakeholder Analysis, Innovation, Return On Investment, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Process Development, Health Technology, Planning, New Product Development, Strategic Decision-Making, Health Policy, and Organizational Strategy

What you'll learn

  • Identify delivery gaps, ideate, and evaluate potential new products and processes using the healthcare innovation process.

  • Conduct thorough market trend analysis, demand forecasting, and financial assessments in the context of healthcare innovation.

  • Recognize regulatory requirements in healthcare innovation, including design control for product and process approvals.

Skills you'll gain

Product Development, Project Management, Innovation, Financial Analysis, Risk Management, Industrial Design, Project Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Health Technology, Communication Planning, Return On Investment, Market Opportunities, New Product Development, Business Risk Management, Project Planning, Healthcare Industry Knowledge, Market Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Regulatory Requirements, and Stakeholder Engagement

What you'll learn

  • Analyze healthcare delivery processes using performance metrics, process mapping, and process analysis.

  • Apply statistical tools, such as hypothesis testing, to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.

  • Design and evaluate data-driven interventions using quality improvement frameworks such as Lean Six Sigma.

  • Assess the operational implications of healthcare innovations across service models, with attention to scalability, access, and clinical impact.

Skills you'll gain

Statistical Process Controls, Innovation, Medical Devices, Continuous Improvement Process, Process Improvement, Probability & Statistics, Lean Six Sigma, Statistical Methods, Quality Improvement, Health Informatics, Performance Improvement, Telehealth, Operations Management, Problem Solving, and Operational Analysis

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Entrepreneurship, Strategic Thinking, Business Strategy, Sustainable Business, Innovation, Stakeholder Engagement, Healthcare Industry Knowledge, Entrepreneurial Finance, New Business Development, Business Modeling, Business Planning, and Team Management

What you'll learn

  • Transformative ideas, innovations, and trends currently reshaping healthcare delivery

  • Emerging business models and novel information technologies that could potentially disrupt and transform the healthcare sector

  • Using theoretical frameworks and applied knowledge to address and adapt to future challenges and advances in healthcare delivery and management

Skills you'll gain

Business Modeling, Consumer Behaviour, Health Equity, Digital Transformation, and Social Determinants Of Health

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

 

Instructors

Elias Kourpas
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 Course75 learners
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4 Courses92,117 learners
Sridhar Seshadri
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4 Courses17,055 learners
Ravi Mehta
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5 Courses42,468 learners

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