Health Innovation, Minor
Explore current health care challenges and build the problem-solving skills to help shape solutions. This program blends innovative and entrepreneurial thinking, preparing you to bring fresh ideas to a constantly evolving field.
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Accreditation
Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Minor description
Health Innovation minor description
The health innovation minor program provides you with the foundational concepts necessary to contribute to transformational change in current health situations. You acquire an understanding of entrepreneurial thinking and the processes involved in initiating, implementing and sustaining innovation in health settings.
Why earn a health innovation minor at ASU?
Where other health-focused minors zero in on a single corner of care, this program centers on innovation, entrepreneurship and systems improvement, preparing you to spot opportunities, design solutions and drive meaningful change across the health sector.
Drawing on health care, business, technology, leadership and entrepreneurship, the minor gives you a broad perspective that complements a wide range of majors and career goals.
At ASU, repeatedly recognized as the nation's most innovative university, you can build the entrepreneurial mindset and collaborative experience to help shape the future of health care.
Courses
This undergraduate minor includes courses focused on a specialized topic, so you can advance your skills for further professional opportunities. Explore all courses below:
2026-2027 Catalog Year
The minor requires 15 credit hours. A "C" minimum is required for all courses in the minor, although students must maintain a 3.00 GPA in the post-baccalaureate certificate program.
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The minor in health innovation consists of 15 credit hours. At least nine of the 15 credit hours must be upper-division courses. Each course must be completed with a grade of "C" (2.00 on a 4.00 scale) or better.
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HCI 311 Health Innovation: Foundational Concepts
3 credit hours
Minimum
grade:C
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C | 3 |
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Upper Division
HCI Elective
6 credit hours
Minimum
grade:C
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C | 6 |
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HCI Elective
6 credit hours
Minimum
grade:C
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C | 6 |
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A maximum of 3 credits of HCI 484 may apply to the minor.
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Prerequisite courses may be needed in order to complete the requirements of this minor.
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Enrollment requirements
GPA Requirement: 2.00
Incompatible Majors: BS in health entrepreneurship and innovation; BAS in applied science (health entrepreneurship and innovation)
Other Enrollment Requirements: None
Current ASU undergraduate students may pursue a minor and have it recognized on their ASU transcript at graduation. Minor requirements appear on the degree audit once the minor is added. Certain major and minor combinations may be deemed inappropriate by the college or department of either the major program or the minor. Courses taken for the minor may not count toward both the major and minor.
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Careers this health innovation minor prepares you for
Minor programs enable students to develop additional competencies that complement the marketable knowledge and skills they acquire in their majors.
Although most career areas require more training than a minor can provide, students who complete the health innovation minor program often pursue employment in an organization focused on health care, and they use their skills to help effect change within the organization.
Contact information
Use the contact information below to get in touch if you're a current student or have general questions.
Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation
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HLTHN 301
EdsonCollege.advising@asu.edu
602-496-0888
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