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Digital Health SpecializationImperial College London

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This course covers various themes around design, regulatory approaches, ethics, technology adoption, implementation and strategy as applied to digital health. These session cover areas to include data regulations, examples of data breaches in digital health, the challenges and opportunities of technology adoption and implementation with a focus on the non-adoption, abandonment, scale-up, spread and sustainability framework (NASSS Framework). The strategy part of this course focuses on understanding a simple strategy for digital health through PESTLE and SWOT analysis, and examples of their application in digital health.

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Approx. 30 hours to complete

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Lisa Danquah

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Céire Costelloe

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School of Public Health

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Imperial College London

Imperial College London is a world top ten university with an international reputation for excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business. located in the heart of London. Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

8 hours to complete

Design, Development and Delivery of Digital Health Interventions

8 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 27 min), 17 readings, 2 quizzes

5 videos

Human Centered Design in practice6mDesign Thinking2mProfessional design7mInteroperability5mIntroduction to Digital Delivery5m

17 readings

About Imperial College London10mAbout the digital health team10mHow to be successful in this course?10mGrading Policy 10mGlossary10mIntroductory reading15mDesign and Implementation of Digital Health Interventions5mHuman Centered Design and evaluating complex health needs30mFeedback on evaluating complex health needs 10mOptional reading: UNICEF and Human Centered Design10mDisciplines Diagram20mThe Principles for Digital Development 1hActivity: SDG and Digital Principles Card Game40mDeveloping Digital Health Interventions: A Methodological Guide45mIntroduction to International Data Standards30mOptional: A business case for data standards10mUse of Agile methodologies in relation to Digital Health1h

2 practice exercises

How will you implement Design Thinking principles?30mDesigning and Implementing Digital Health Interventions30m

Week2

Week 2

7 hours to complete

Regulatory Approaches and Ethics

This module will focus on identifying the appropriate regulatory processes associated with digital health and personalised and population digital health approaches. You will also be introduced to important topics to include the value of data and health care data, data regulations to include areas on data security, ownership and access and lastly, data breaches and fake news where you will assess contemporary examples.

7 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 38 min), 9 readings, 3 quizzes

3 videos

Example on Data Regulations16mValue of Data in Digital Health6mExample of a cyberattack15m

9 readings

Different Regulatory Approaches to Digital Health1hChallenges in Digital Health regulation10mData Regulation Approaches 45mEthical aspects of Digital Health30mEthical guidelines and Digital Health in the NHS20mBioethics and Digital Health10mMonetising data10mBreaching of Data Regulations45mViral misinformation45m

3 practice exercises

Data Regulations in Different Countries30mValue of health data reflections30mRegulations and data in DH35m

Week3

Week 3

6 hours to complete

Technology Adoption and Implementation

In this module you will learn about the digital health landscape and why healthcare digitalisation is so slow and difficult. You will be introduced to the NASSS framework and learn how you can use it to identify, understand and address challenges associated with digital health interventions in health. This will help inform your understanding and knowledge of the barriers and facilitators in digital health and you will also learn about why technology programmes fail. There is an example of developing an implementation strategy for a digital health intervention based on an example from routine healthcare and there will also be an example of evaluating a digital alert for sepsis in a clinical setting in the United Kingdom.

6 hours to complete

1 video (Total 17 min), 5 readings, 4 quizzes

1 video

Introducing the NASSS framework for informatics professionals16m

5 readings

The slow and challenging journey to digitalising healthcare1h 30mIntroducing the NASSS framework5mDigital Health adoption 1hOptional: Sustainable Digital Health adoption30mDeveloping an implementation strategy1h

4 practice exercises

The NASSS framework30mDigital Health adoption 15mDeveloping an implementation strategy30mDesign considerations for barriers and facilitators of Digital Health30m

Week4

Week 4

9 hours to complete

Contextual Analysis (Strategies applied to Digital Health Design)

9 hours to complete

1 video (Total 6 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes

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About the Digital Health Specialization

This specialisation introduces students to the emerging and multidisciplinary field of digital health and the role and application of digital health technologies including mobile applications, wearable technologies, health information systems, telehealth, telemedicine, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data. These digital health technologies are assessed in terms of their opportunities and challenges to address real-world public health and health care system challenges in order to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of these services. The aim of this specialisation is to prepare learners for the new era of digitalisation in public health and health care globally.

The design and implementation of digital health interventions aspect of this specialisation address topics to include design thinking, regulatory approaches, ethical considerations, technology adoption, implementation and strategy as applied to digital health. The evaluation component of this course focuses on data considerations in digital health, data management and the evaluation of digital health interventions with a focus on experimental and quasi-experimental design approaches to evaluation and the economic evaluation of digital health interventions.

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