Health, Technology, and Innovation specialization

Take five required courses specifically designed for Health, Technology, and Innovation students, and add electives in areas of career focus such as consulting, finance, organizational leadership, marketing, or operations management.

In the second year of the program, benefit from a tailored course schedule that fits your professional interests and goals. This unique opportunity allows you to interact with Carey students from all programs and get involved in university-wide experiences such as Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures.

Course highlights

Two-course highlight: End-to-End Health Breakthroughs

Design Lab (course 1): This experiential learning course provides a hands-on, data-driven decision-making experience. Manage the multiple touch points and decisions inherent in financing, research and development, contracting and negotiation, procurement, marketing, pricing, inventory management, and customer relationship management activities associated with innovative products and services.

Commercializing Discovery (course 2): In this experiential learning course, assess the feasibility of bringing health-related innovations and inventions to market. And learn to turn a nascent innovation into a real-world breakthrough that can push health care forward.

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Co-curriculars

Sharpen your skills, build connections throughout the program, and tap into the vast Johns Hopkins network with opportunities to engage with clinicians, researchers, engineers, and innovators across the university.

Co-curricular highlight: Hexcite

At the Hexcite early-stage medical software accelerator program, students from across Johns Hopkins match with care providers with an idea to create and market a software solution that improves patient care. Join a team of design and engineering students while working closely with Johns Hopkins Medicine clinical faculty and staff.

Engage with new health technology software from every angle. Serve as the team’s project manager, provide business support, define the business model, drive the marketing strategy, and create and lead team pitches and presentations. Develop new skills at workshops on software development, design thinking, customer interviews, and wireframing.

Following 16 weeks of inventive programming and mentorship, Hexcite teams build their technology in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Technology Innovation Center, conduct an internal pilot at Johns Hopkins, and launch a Baltimore start-up.

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