HealthTechnologies, Innovation and the Law
SLN #: 27029Course Prefix: LAW-689
Course Section: 1001
Credit Hours: 2
Instructor(s): Marchant;Cardineau
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Course Description:
Innovative new technologies are playing an ever more central and important role in health care, but face a number of legal and policy challenges. This seminar will explore emerging health technology innovations, and examine the legal and policy hurdles facing these technologies. The first hour of each class will focus on a case study of a specific emerging medical technology by discussing the status and trends of that technology, and the unique legal, policy and ethical issues that technology presents. Examples will include including personalized medicine, nanomedicine, regenerative medicine, molecular diagnostics, telemedicine, gene therapy, electronic health records, neuroimaging, medical robots, and digital or “smart” medicine. The second hour will address critical legal and policy issues affecting medical technology innovation generally, such as R&D, financing, intellectual property, regulatory, reimbursement, clinical uptake, liability and bioethical issues.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 2
Grading Option: Letter Grade Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Skills Requirement: No
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: No
Seminar: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Limited Enrollment Number: 15
Final Exam Given: No
Paper Or In-Class Presentation: Yes
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Teaching Method: In Person
* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.