Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp
MIT & Harvard Medical School
Aug. 1, 2021 - Oct. 31, 2021
An online program in entrepreneurial creativity and problem solving, healthcare innovation, and leadership.The MIT-Harvard Medical School Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp brings the rigorous, collaborative, action-learning experience of our in-person Healthcare Innovation Bootcamps online.
Active Learning
Learn with and from alongside other global innovators
From a combination of live sessions with MIT and Harvard Medical School instructors and guest speakers, interactive workshops with the MIT Bootcamps teaching team, coaching sessions with an MIT Bootcamps coach and Harvard Medical School nurse ethicist, regular meetings with your team, plus your individual work, we expect active engagement from all participants. This isn’t a typical online course. Experience building a healthcare venture with a global team over 10 weeks.
Remote Global Collaboration
Learn to collaborate effectively online, across cultures and timezones
As the world has learned in 2020, effective remote collaboration is a challenging but necessary skill now and for the future as workplace configurations adapt. In this Bootcamp, you’ll gain experience collaborating and leading a global team remotely, learning from them as you build the foundations of a new venture together. Additionally, determinants of health and healthcare systems vary widely globally; learn about these directly from other practitioners from around the world.
Becoming and Belonging
Join our global community
Over the last six years, MIT Bootcamps has selected and built a community of 1300+ changemakers from 100+ countries. In addition to your classmates, expand your professional network beyond your own Bootcamp cohort. Over 200 attended previous Healthcare Innovation Bootcamps or work in healthcare innovation. Receive continued access to innovation and entrepreneurship content developed and curated and developed by MIT Bootcamps.
Master virtual collaboration for team-based innovation at the Bootcamp. Be part of the movement and the moment. Help solve the world's largest healthcare problems with like-minded innovators from around the globe.
What to expect at the Bootcamp
Over 10 weeks, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a global team of innovators selected by MIT Bootcamps to build the foundations of a new healthcare venture. You will learn principles central to innovation directly from MIT and Harvard Medical School instructors: problem discovery, ideation, user innovation, customer sense-making, and more. Your team will be coached by MIT innovators with healthcare experience and you’ll hear from entrepreneurs, investors, and others from MIT and Harvard Medical School’s diverse ecosystems.
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> Creativity
Innovators often get “stuck.” Learn to identify viable opportunity spaces and ideation techniques to help you generate new ones.
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> Stakeholder sensemaking
Your end users are the most important people for your venture. Learn to identify their unmet needs - the opportunity to create value for them and your venture.
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> Problem
The problem and end users will be at the center of your venture. Learn how to frame and specify the problem opportunity so that you develop a solution that creates actual value.
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> Solution
It takes four modules to even begin discussing the solution! This is because superior solutions are built on the foundation of a well-specified opportunity and knowing your end user well. Learn to develop a solution that works AND your end user will use.
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> Financial sustainability
Venture creation doesn’t end with creating a superior solution. Learn how the business model and other decisions you make can create value for your customer and your startup.
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> Story
Learn to craft a story that engages a range of stakeholders and clearly communicates the value your venture will deliver.
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> Pitch
Pitch your venture and receive feedback from MIT Bootcamps judges.
How to Enroll
Enrollments
Admissions to the Bootcamp is highly selective. The most successful Bootcampers display and articulate the following qualities during their admissions process: the capacity for calculated risk, open and critical thinking, focus on community, and initiative with follow-through. Be prepared to talk about your experience in these four areas when you apply. Read more about out how to apply and our admissions process here.
Location
Online
Collaborate with team members from all around the world. You'll be expected to dedicate between 10-15 hours per week on the Bootcamp.
Bootcamp Dates
Oct 5 - Dec 13, 2020
In 10 weeks, build a healthcare driven venture and pitch your startup!
Tuition
$5,300 USD
Tuition includes all course materials and access to learning platforms. Learners will need to have computer and internet access course content and live sessions.
Meet Your Instructors & Coaches
Instructors
Faculty
MIT and Harvard Faculty provide valuable unparalleled insight in topics on healthcare, digital health, innovation, entrepreneurship, and more.
Speakers
Entrepreneurs will discuss their expertise as start-up founders in the healthcare ecosystem. At the Bootcamp, you'll have time to connect with speakers and learn from their experiences.
Coaches
The 'secret sauce' of the Bootcamp, our coaches provide expertise, mentorship, and direction during the Bootcamp.
Alumni
Global Community
We have a diverse group of innovators from over 100 countries. Some of us are start-up founders, others are corporate innovators, and some of us want to gain a better understanding of innovation frameworks. Our global community is here to support you - starting a company doesn't have to be lonely. Join a group of like-minded peers, ready to make an impact in the world.
Submerge yourself into the experience. If you trust the process and trust your team and allow yourself to embrace your experience, you’ll make the most out of it.-Vanessa
Currently based in Caracas, Venezuela, Vanessa Torres Gangoo is the Healthcare Operations Manager at Clinica Santiago de León, a top private hospital, where she oversees the inpatient and outpatient admission in the emergency and hospitalizations unit, the primary care specialty unit, budgeting and cost strategies, as well as strategic alliances. Vanessa holds a Master's Degree in Professional and Organizational Communication and a BSBA in International Business from the University of Denver. She has academic and professional experience in the United States, France, Israel and Venezuela in private companies as well as NGOs. Passionate about health, technology and social impact, the bootcamp helped propel her toward her career goals, and gave her a new vision in healthcare that she has been able to implement in her current position, to enhance the patient care experience at all levels. While she is not working, she is a member of the Global Shapers, a community of the World Economic Forum. She loves to travel, read, play tennis, go to concerts and art shows, have dinner parties with friends and meet new people.
Learning Resources
Build Your Innovation Foundation
You Can Innovate: User Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship 103 (coming soon!)