Program Overview

Digital Health Essentials

Course Overview

The Digital Health Essentials course provides an introduction to the concept of digital health and its applications in healthcare. Students will learn about the backbone of digital health, including hardware and software, and how they contribute to building digital health systems. The course also explores the impact of digital health on improving user experience and increasing healthcare quality.

Course Objectives

• Dive into the concept of digital health and understand how healthcare professionals embrace ICT for healthcare.
• Assess gaps and opportunities in digital health, including core digital health applications that can improve healthcare delivery.
• Discover cognitive and privacy perspectives in digital health, including how cognitive science can offer a framework for analyzing and modeling complicated human performance.

Course Details

• Length: 2 weeks
• Time Commitment: 3 hours/week
• Pace: Self-paced
• Subject: Healthcare
• Platform: Futurelearn
• Start: December 19, 2022
• End: December 19, 2022
• Credit: Free to learn

Course Content

The course is divided into several sections, including:

• An introduction to digital health and its applications
• Assessing gaps and opportunities in digital health
• Exploring cognitive and privacy perspectives in digital health