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Programme overview
In the 21st century, healthcare is experiencing a profound shift towards a more holistic approach to health and wellbeing, transcending the conventional boundaries of ‘sick care.’ Such an evolving landscape is driven by technological advances and a growing demand for more personalised care and support.
As the healthcare ecosystem evolves, staying at the forefront has never been more critical. The future of industries serving healthcare hinges on our collective ability to harness innovation, adapt to emerging and disruptive technologies, navigate complex regulatory frameworks, and reshape organisational cultures to meet the changing needs of individuals and populations.
This Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare training programme is a five-day programme designed to empower healthcare provider executives, policymakers, and industry leaders with the knowledge, skills, and insights needed to lead and thrive in this ever-evolving landscape.
The programme will feature world-leading experts and pioneers in AI and healthcare technologies, including key speakers from Google Health and other influential sectors.
Throughout the course, you will explore and dissect critical themes such as systemic innovation, cutting-edge healthcare technologies, AI-driven advancements, policies and regulations, and leadership strategies for fostering innovation. Our expert-led sessions will offer a deep dive into the practical implementation of these concepts, ensuring you are equipped to drive impactful change within your organisation.
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare represents an extraordinary journey that embraces a broader, more multi-faceted perspective on healthcare. This programme will empower you to redefine healthcare in your organisation, adapting to emerging technologies and delivering personalised, patient-centred care.
Embark on this extraordinary journey to elevate your leadership, expand your knowledge across healthcare domains, and drive meaningful innovation that will shape the future of healthcare.
Who should attend?
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare is designed for healthcare provider executives, policymakers, and industry leaders from all areas of the healthcare value chain, such as pharma, medtech, and IT, who are influential in the sector's innovation.
This healthcare executive education programme will guide you towards greater innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to plan and deliver health services to meet emerging global needs.
Our programme is tailored to a wide audience across the healthcare spectrum, including:
- Healthcare Providers who want to re-frame approaches to health and implement effective and sustainable care delivery models, positioning their institution as a leader in the healthcare revolution.
- Pharma/medtech organisations who seek the expertise to capitalise on rapid scientific advancements while accelerating the launch of groundbreaking products into more complex healthcare and regulatory environments.
- Biotech Firms interested into the latest advancements in healthcare technologies to measure impact and scale innovations effectively.
- Digital Health and Telehealth Platforms who want to deepen their understanding of the ethical considerations, design principles, and measurable impacts of digital health innovations.
- ·Public Health Organisations who want to implement systems thinking, behavioural change, and multi-stakeholder engagement to design and implement public health initiatives that are innovative, scalable, and impactful.
- Health Insurers who want to acquire strategic insights into healthcare ecosystems, business models, and regulatory changes to lead their company through healthcare’s rapidly evolving landscape.
- Health Policy Makers and Regulators who want to develop a multi-faceted understanding of the healthcare landscape to craft policies that foster innovation while ensuring public safety
- Investors and Venture Capitalists who want to deepen their knowledge of the metrics, models, and case studies to identify the most promising and scalable healthcare innovations.
- Third sector and NGOs who want to gain knowledge of systems framework and tools to design effective, innovative programmes that can make a significant impact on public health.
Learning Objectives
Throughout our programme on leading innovation in healthcare, you will develop the skills and capabilities to:
- Examine the principles of innovation, systemic innovation, and their vital roles in healthcare.
- Reframe approaches to health and care design, implementing systems-based framework and tools to your health innovation challenges.
- Analyse the impact of health policies and regulations on healthcare innovation and learn strategies to navigate this complex landscape to design policies that foster innovation.
- Identify and evaluate the impact of key technological trends on healthcare and your own business and explore how you can embrace and help to accelerate these trends.
- Cultivate leadership strategies and create a culture that fosters and nurtures both systemic and product/service innovation within your organisation.
- Develop practical strategies for implementing both systemic and product/service innovation in healthcare and identify how to measure their impacts.
Learning journey
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare is a five-day programme that unfolds through a series of immersive sessions, interactive workshops, and offsite visits, each delving deeper into key aspects of healthcare innovation.
The programme begins by examining the broader landscape of 21st century healthcare, offering insights into future health trends. It provides a deep understanding of both systemic and product/service innovations within the healthcare sector. It then delves into the intricacies of the policy and regulatory landscape and examines cutting-edge healthcare technologies, AI-driven advancements, and emerging trends in next-generation healthcare. The programme concludes with strategies to develop leadership and culture for innovation as well as implement innovation in healthcare and industry settings.
Attendees will have the opportunity to network with peers and bring their own health innovation project, which will be explored and developed within the framework of our programme material.
The core themes of our programme include:
- Innovation and systemic innovation in healthcare
- Policy and regulations in healthcare innovation
- Technological trends in healthcare.
- Leadership and culture for innovation in healthcare
- Implementing innovation in healthcare
Innovation, Systemic Innovation & Systems Thinking in Healthcare
Acquire a foundational understanding of healthcare innovation. This includes emphasising the long-term future of technology-enabled healthcare and exploring the essentials of ecosystem business model design for systemic innovation. You will be introduced to critical systems thinking, a vital skill for operating effectively in complex healthcare environments.
Sessions on day one will include:
- Welcome and introduction.
- The long-term future of healthcare in a technology-enabled 21st century
- Ecosystem Business model design for systemic innovation
- Imagining, collaborating and learning in ecosystems
- Introduction to critical systems thinking.
Public Health, Policy, Regulations and Health Ecosystem Design in Healthcare Innovation
Explore the fundamentals of product and service innovation. Delve deeper into the interplay between public health and policy to assess the impact of regulations and policies on healthcare innovation.
Enrich your day with an offsite visit for a practical perspective on digital health innovation.
Sessions on day two will include:
- The fundamentals of product/service and systemic innovation
- The impact of health policies and regulation on healthcare innovation
- Workshop: Individual health innovation projects
- A panel session on public health and inequalities
- Offsite visit: The Data Science Institute
- Experiential Activity: The Chemical Kitchen
- Welcome drinks and reception
Technological Trends and Care Delivery Innovation with Google Health, Personalised and Functional Medicine, Behaviour Change and Mental Health
Explore the transformative potential of digital technologies in healthcare, with insights from learning experts at Google Health who are at the forefront of innovation. Delve into the emerging fields of personalised and functional medicine, offering a comprehensive introduction to these concepts.
Gain insights into principles and strategies for behavioural change in healthcare and into the pivotal role of mental health in healthcare innovation.
Sessions on day three will include:
- Digital transformation and care delivery innovation in healthcare
- Behaviour changes, health and healthcare
- The future of personalised and functional medicine
- Integrating mental health
Leadership, Culture for Innovation, Care Pathway Redesign, and Behaviour Change in Healthcare
Gain insights into the principles and strategies by which organisational culture and leadership drive innovation and care redesign.
Dive into change management theories for cultivating a learning culture within healthcare.
Supplement your knowledge with an offsite visit for a real-world perspective on health innovation.
Sessions on day four will include:
- Fostering a culture of innovation and care redesign in healthcare
- Fostering change management and the creation of a learning culture
- Workshop: Individual health innovation projects
- Offsite visit
- Programme Dinner
Implementing Innovation in Healthcare
We bring everything together by offering you concrete strategies for implementing healthcare innovation. This includes introducing proven methods for measuring its impact and exploring the critical role of sustainability and planetary health in the healthcare sector.
Conclude your transformative journey by showcasing your own innovation project, applying everything you've learned throughout the programme.
Receive valuable feedback from experts to refine and further develop your innovative initiatives.
Sessions on day five will include:
- Bringing it all together: Strategies for implementing and measuring healthcare innovation
- Planetary health and sustainable healthcare
- Workshop: Individual health innovation projects
- Health innovation project presentations
- Closing and final remarks
Programme faculty and experts
Leading Systemic Innovation in Healthcare is enriched by insights from Imperial College world-leading faculty and industry experts who will expose you to the new evidence-based approaches to innovation in healthcare.
Andy Wilkins
Andy is a futurist, speaker, podcaster and founder of Future Health – a new think tank and systems convener exploring the long-term vision for health and healthcare systems in a technology enabled 21st century. He has undertaken numerous healthcare innovation and transformation projects and has authored several high-profile reports for the NHS and policy makers on the future of healthcare. Andy is a visiting lecturer to UCL and a champion for a new future based on holistic health that includes wrapping holistic, person-centred health and care around the needs of individuals and communities and the transformation from silos to health ecosystems that will make this possible.
Shireen Kassam
Dr Shireen Kassam is a Consultant Haematologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College Hospital, London with a specialist interest in the treatment of lymphoma. She is also a Visiting-Professor at University of Winchester, Hampshire, where she has developed and facilitates the UK's first University-based course on plant-based nutrition. In 2023 she launched a course on lifestyle medicine for cancer.
Shireen is passionate about promoting plant-based nutrition for the prevention and reversal of chronic disease and for maintaining optimal health after treatment for cancer. In 2019 she became certified as a Lifestyle Medicine Physician and is also a CHIP facilitator.
Shireen founded Plant-Based Health Professionals UK in 2018, a non-profit, membership organisation whose mission is to provide evidence-based education on whole food plant-based nutrition.
Shireen qualified as a doctor in 2000. During her training, she completed a PhD, which investigated the role of selenium in sensitising cancer cells to chemotherapy. Shireen has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the field of lymphoma. Her first book, Eating Plant-Based, Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions, co-authored with her sister Zahra, was published in January 2022. She has also co-edited the textbook Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, published in September 2022.
Susannah Howard
Susannah is Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) Director at the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS).
Originally a psychologist, in the early part of her career Susannah worked in mental health at The Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Unit, Department of Health and Commission for Health Improvement.
She led the Eastern Development Centre and then the unique NHS based business unit ‘Enable East’ for which she was named Essex ‘Business Woman of the Year’ in 2013. An annual Guest Lecturer at Harvard University Extension School she has also worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in trauma affected countries.
She is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group and National Strategic Council for Obesity and has held over £12 million in grants for the Big Lottery Fund.
Franco Sassi
Professor Franco Sassi holds a Chair in International Health Policy and Economics and is the Director of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation. His work has been aimed at assessing the impacts of public policies to tackle major chronic diseases and their predisposing risk factors, including poor nutrition, physical inactivity, alcohol and tobacco use, and a range of environmental and social exposures.
He is the author and editor of a large number of publications on economic aspects of public health, including the books “Obesity and the economics of prevention: Fit not fat”, in 2010, "Tackling harmful alcohol use: Economics and public health policy" in 2015, and "Health Taxes: Policy and Practice" in 2022.
Prior to joining Imperial College, Franco was a Senior Health Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD, Paris - where he developed and was responsible for the Organisation's Public Health Programme.
Chris Naylor
Chris is Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund & Policy Lead at Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Chris has a background in health policy and research and is passionate about creating sustainable health and care services that are resilient for the future. He has extensive experience working across a range of health policy issues at the UK health think tank, The King’s Fund, and also works as Policy Lead at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. In previous roles he has worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and the Public Health Foundation of India in Delhi. He has an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a BA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. He is a trained coach and an experienced facilitator and works with leaders in the health system to support practical change.
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