Digital Innovation
Email entrepreneurship@qut.edu.au for information, resources and classes.
Learning objectives
- Discuss, evaluate and reflect on key issues surrounding digital innovation and the rapid changes to healthcare
- Employ new ways of doing things with digital tools, apps and media
- Apply digital entrepreneurship concepts to healthcare situations
Higher level
- Discover and assess new ways of integrating several technologies
- Act as a digital change agent or champion in a subject area
Activities
Reading and group discussion
- Ask the students to read this short paper in class and individually answer the following questions.
- What did you learn from this article?
- Was there anything about this article you disagreed with?
- What specific innovations are happening to your area in health?
- What impacts do these innovations have?
- Split the students into groups to discuss their responses.
- Have each group report back to the class.
New technologies
- Ask the students to research, in groups, a cutting-edge technology in their field.
- Ask them to assess the benefits, costs and risks involved with this technology.
- Have them report back to the class.
Design thinking
- Watch this design thinking LinkedIn Learning video.
- Facilitate a design thinking session in tutorial, asking students to apply design thinking to a digital health problem – for example sensitive data management.
- See example articles below for some ideas on how this has could be applied.
Resources
- Design Thinking resources (LinkedIn Learning, online course)
- QUT Entrepreneurship(QUT Resource
- Introduction to Digital Health Entrepreneurship(Coursera, online course)
- QLD Health Digital Iniatives(QLD Health, website)
