This course introduces students to the business ecosystem of the US health care industry using a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the business structures, processes, and outcomes of health services in America. The course covers how various health care components - including biotech and pharma - work individually and how they work (or fail to work) together to create the "health care system."

This course focuses on studying product and process innovations in the healthcare industry driven primarily by advances in information technology. The primary objectives are to help students understand evolutionary changes within the healthcare value chain, develop technology strategies to foster innovation, and evaluate how new information technologies can disrupt the healthcare delivery lifecycle.

This is an 8-week interdisciplinary practicum course offering students an opportunity to get hands-on experience identifying and developing ideas, market validation, and more and is a feeder into other startup paths across the University. This course is a joint effort between the Drug Dynamics Institute, the McCombs School of Business, Cockrell School of Engineering, Texas Health Catalyst, and Austin Technology Incubator (ATI).

Coming soon.