Innovating Digital Health: A Biodesign Thinking Approach Training by Tonex
Digital health innovation offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform how healthcare is delivered—from episodic interventions to continuous, personalized well-being. This two-day course explores how biodesign thinking can empower professionals to address healthcare’s biggest challenges—chronic disease, aging populations, clinical shortages, and rising costs—with impactful, patient-centered digital solutions.
Leveraging principles from Stanford’s Biodesign methodology, participants will learn how to identify unmet needs, translate insights into digital product ideas, and evaluate these innovations for maximum clinical, technical, and business value. Through hands-on team exercises, case studies, and expert-guided ideation, attendees will walk away with a practical framework for building effective digital health solutions.
This course is ideal for healthcare innovators, product managers, engineers, UX designers, clinical professionals, and entrepreneurs looking to develop or improve digital health products and services.
What You’ll Learn:
- The fundamentals of biodesign innovation methodology applied to digital health.
- How to identify and frame unmet needs in healthcare delivery.
- How to conduct stakeholder research and define need criteria.
- Strategies to generate and screen solution ideas.
- How to assess clinical, technical, and business feasibility.
- Regulatory, privacy, and data considerations in digital health.
- Pitching and presenting innovative digital health concepts.
Course Modules:
Day 1 – Unmet Needs & Insight-Driven Innovation
- Session 1: The State of Digital Health: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Session 2: Biodesign Thinking: Introduction and Framework
- Session 3: Needs Finding in Healthcare: Clinical, Consumer, and System Perspectives
- Session 4: Scoping a Digital Health Problem: Real-World Case Practice
- Workshop: Framing and Validating a Digital Health Need (Team Exercise)
Day 2 – Solution Ideation to Concept Evaluation
- Session 5: From Need to Concept: Generating and Refining Ideas
- Session 6: Evaluation Criteria: Clinical Impact, Usability, Data & Compliance
- Session 7: Building a Minimal Viable Concept (MVC)
- Session 8: From Pitch to Pilot: Making the Case for Adoption
- Workshop: Final Team Pitch – Digital Health Innovation Challenge
Key Features:
- Practical team-based design exercises and innovation pitch session
- Expert-led discussion on trends in wearables, sensors, data privacy, and AI in digital health
- Digital Health Canvas toolkit (Tonex exclusive)
- Course certificate of completion
Who Should Attend:
- Product managers and innovation leaders in healthcare
- Clinicians interested in healthcare innovation
- Engineers and UX designers building digital health tools
- Entrepreneurs and startup founders in the medtech space
- Biomedical researchers and graduate students exploring healthcare solutions
Custom Versions Available
This course can be tailored for hospitals, healthcare systems, medtech companies, or academic institutions interested in building internal innovation capability.