As you finalize your class schedule for Winter Quarter 2017 please consider the following:
Prof. Lee Huntsman would like to invite you to take BIOEN 498 H/599 L (SLN: 11391/11413): Healthcare Transformation: Forces, Directions and Opportunities on Tuesdays 2:30-4:20pm. 2 credits (C/NC).
BIOEN 498 H/599 I-Healthcare Transformation: Forces, Directions, Implications
American healthcare is entering a period of seismic change driven by multiple forces: scientific, technical, economic and most notably a reinvention of financial incentives. This change will continue over many years and involve not only new approaches to medical care but also substantial shifts in the nature of innovations needed. Students whose career path will involve them in the healthcare ecosystem, via research, technology development, business aspects or public policy initiatives, will benefit from an understanding of the forces driving change, the likely responses of healthcare providers and the criteria which will evolve for successful innovations. By providing an introduction to the history, organization and financing of American healthcare, a sense of future directions and some experience evaluating contemporary attempts at innovation, the course aims to equip students to better utilize their professional skills to achieve constructive improvements of healthcare.
Best,
Kalei Combs
Academic Program Coordinator
Bioengineering Department
University of Washington