Healthcare is a source of interest for students from the Ecole Polytechnique. This seminar aims to sensibilize sudents to the currents issues facing industrialized healthcare systems, studying the contribution of technical innovation and its diffusion modalities. The context of the Covid-19 outbreak is taken into consideration, and will be used as examples throughout the seminar. The focus is on the organizational changes of healthcare systems, emphasising on the evolving role of the hospital and patient's room, the creation of new jobs, and the new forms of management required by the management of coordinated and personalised patient pathways. In this context, technical innovation and particularly digital healtcare and AI, are bringer of in-depth changes.
This course offers an overview of the main issues expected of these innovations (on treatement offer, patient's autonomy, insurer profession, and research). It identifies their potential profits, but also more unpredictable effects. The issues involved in their development are highlighted, both in terms of value creation and understanding of "real life" uses. Concrete and actual example support (e.g. developing telemedicine services for oncology). Some "learning expeditions" are planned, including in the Institut Gustave Roussy - first European comprehensive cancer centre - to present innovation in the field. The particiapants are expected to develop a collective project, by reviewing what has been learnt in each class. This course aims to enable every student to acquire knowledge on this sector and skills in terms of diffusion of innovation.
- Teaching coordinator: Minvielle Etienne