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2016 Prospectus SPS

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY <strong>2016</strong><br />

Monika Witting, director of the Live Architecture Network (LaN) and co-lead of the MedXMakers<br />

initiative, leads a workshop on the medical applications of 3D printing and biofabrication at the<br />

inaugural Medicine X | Ed conference.<br />

LAUNCH! FOR HEALTH CARE STARTUPS<br />

Launch! for Health Startups leverages structured methods<br />

developed by Stanford Medicine X that provide health care<br />

and business fundamentals necessary for venture success.<br />

This educational program for startup leaders, innovators,<br />

entrepreneurs, and their partners, consists of instruction in<br />

health care design as well as practical knowledge on how<br />

to navigate the health care industry to produce successful<br />

ventures. Through case studies, project-based learning,<br />

collaborations, and presentations, participants will complete<br />

the program with well-vetted, refined ideas ready to pitch to<br />

venture capitalists.<br />

This four week immersive and interactive bootcamp course<br />

will focus on how to use the Stanford Medicine X Everyone<br />

Included design-thinking methodology to focus on problems<br />

that matter most in health care. We provide fundamental<br />

knowledge of the health care industry and teach operational<br />

and tactical knowledge to navigate the industry to produce<br />

successful ventures.<br />

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS<br />

Stanford Medicine X Executive Education courses take<br />

executives out of the classroom and the boardroom to<br />

experience what patient engagement truly means. Long a<br />

buzzword for healthcare organizations, patient engagement<br />

comes to life as you learn how including patients in design and<br />

implementation can position your company to develop drugs,<br />

devices, and other interventions that create value and hit their<br />

mark in the marketplace.<br />

Our course Co-creating Value through Patient-Centered<br />

Innovation will help executives bring the Medicine X Everyone<br />

Included innovation model to their organizations. This<br />

two-day immersive and interactive course will focus on how<br />

organizations and health care leaders can engage patient<br />

experts to co-create value and drive patient-centered<br />

innovation throughout the health care enterprise. To what<br />

extent can patients untap value for your organization? How<br />

might industry improve efficiency and drive innovation through<br />

patient input? How are patient experts identified and nurtured<br />

as co-creators in health care? Is your institution ready for<br />

patient-centered innovation? If so, how do you take the next<br />

steps toward implementation. If not, how can you prepare your<br />

organization for impending change?<br />

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