Digital Health
- Executive Education
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Explore how digital technologies are transforming health care. Learn to evaluate new tools, navigate stakeholder needs, and identify where innovation can solve real-world challenges. Includes hands-on, scenario-based learning.
- Online; Instructor-Paced
This course is offered online with a schedule, and participants progress through the materials under the guidance of an instructor.
$1,600
This is the standard price.
Certificate
3-4 Hours/Week, 4 Weeks
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Overview
How has digital transformation influenced the health care industry?
Millions of health-related data points are captured every day, from information collected by our personal devices and doctor's office visits to public health data collection about disease prevalence and treatment outcomes. Digital technologies have transformed how we buy and listen to music and how we plan our travel. Will there be a similar digital disruption in health care?
Throughout this online digital health certificate program, you will become familiar with developments that have led to digital transformation in health care and weigh the pros and cons of digital technology in health care. You will understand the process of product development in digital health innovation by participating in a fictional hackathon, working alongside other learners to determine which digital tools to invest in.
Using a selection of real-world case studies as a starting point, you will evaluate the potential impact of digital tools on patients, physicians, payers, and future health care ecosystems. In doing so, you’ll consider the impact digital tools have on these stakeholders to understand how data tracking and digital health products can improve patient care, enhance communication between doctors and patients, increase employee benefits and happiness, and track health trends and develop solutions.
While this course emphasizes independent learning, it also provides opportunities for peer collaboration through group assignments and online discussions.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how digital technologies can address critical pain points in health care.
- Learn how to think about applications of collecting and using data to inform health care, and the privacy risks and analytical pitfalls unique to health care data.
- Explore the opportunities and difficulties of implementing new technology in health care, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, apps, and sensors.
- Navigate the systemic barriers and often conflicting needs of health care stakeholders in bringing digital health technologies to market.
- Become adept at analyzing gaps in health care that can be closed with technology and data.
Faculty
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
Stanley Y. Shaw, MD, PhD
Course Director
- Associate Vice President, Digital Medicine, Amgen
- Teaching Associate for Harvard Medical School Executive Education