Innovation and HealthTech Consulting

This course provides graduate students with experiential learning in healthcare consulting through live projects with early-stage technology founders funded through private equity and venture capital dollars. Students work in teams with one of three companies:

• Sunflower (digital sobriety platform seeking international expansion)
• Robot Health (AI-enabled companion for seniors in homecare)
• Meela (AI engagement tool for older adults exploring reimbursement and direct-to-consumer models)

Each week integrates structured consulting frameworks with founder problem-solving, culminating in a professional consulting paper and presentation. Faculty combine expertise in healthcare financing, operations, and long-term care with venture capital and start-up scaling experience. Guest speakers supplement areas such as regulation, ethics, and equity. By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Apply structured consulting frameworks to analyze and solve complex strategic problems facing health technology start-ups.
• Critically assess healthcare innovation through the lens of financing, operations, policy, ethics, and investment readiness.
• Deliver actionable, evidence-based recommendations tailored to founder needs in the form of a professional consulting paper and client-facing presentation.