Revolutionize Healthcare with AI: Join the AI-Powered Innovation Course

Too often, innovation starts with a solution, only to discover too late that it doesn’t address what truly matters. The course flips this approach. Over 10 weeks, learners master a proven framework to identify, prioritize, and tackle real, high-value needs, not just incremental fixes.

Through expert instruction, hands-on mentorship, and powerful AI tools that accelerate discovery, learners quickly filter hundreds of insights to focus on the needs with the greatest potential for impact. The course helps you frame the right problem, so whether your next step is a grant proposal, research project, clinical innovation, quality improvement initiative, or policy work, your work will be built on a foundation that matters.

By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped to:

This is not a course about starting a company. It’s a mindset shift, designed for anyone who wants to drive meaningful, transformative change in healthcare.

When you start with the right problem, you build what matters.

Course Format

This 10-week course gives faculty and clinical professionals a repeatable process to consistently generate their best ideas, whether for clinical innovation, quality improvement, research, or policy.

Participants will master the Needs-Driven Innovation framework and use advanced AI Co-Pilots to dramatically enhance the speed and quality of their work, compressing a process that typically takes 9 months into 10 weeks.

Each week includes:

1–1.5 hours of expert-led instruction
Learn a proven, structured framework for identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing unmet healthcare needs—guided by experienced innovation leaders.

1 hour of dedicated mentorship (scheduled flexibly)
Work one-on-one with distinguished professionals across healthcare innovation. Mentors provide personalized guidance and real-world insights to help you refine your thinking and strengthen your project outcomes.

Additional time for team-based deliverables
Collaborate in cross-functional teams to apply the innovation framework to real-world challenges.

Time commitment: approximately 3–5 hours per week.

You’ll move from identifying unmet needs to rigorously filtering and selecting the most impactful one, and developing early solutions that could transform patient care, your practice, and your career.

If you are interested in applying to attend our 2025 class, contact us here!

About the Instructor:

Rush Bartlett is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sluice AI. Rush is a serial entrepreneur who has previously started multiple healthcare technology companies; two have been acquired, one failed, and one is growing with 20-plus employees. He was previously Chief Product Officer at Lansinoh Laboratories, a women’s health company, and also serves as the associate director for corporate education at Stanford’s Byers Center for Biodesign. He received the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award in 2019 and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 under 40 in 2017.

Specialties: Health care, biodesign, intellectual property, venture and angel investing, corporate structures and stock, health care and retail sales, biomedical engineering and materials