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Introduction to Digital Health Entrepreneurship

Johns Hopkins University

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This course will provide an overview of digital health entrepreneurship with an initial emphasis on learning the basic digital health terminology, exploring a current example of telemedicine and its growth during the COVID pandemic, and gaining an understanding of the landscape and macro forces that affect the US healthcare system and the evolution of digital health. Students who successfully complete the course will understand the impact that payers, regulators, clinicians, and patients have on and the implications for digital health innovations.

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Approx. 6 hours to complete

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Includes hands on learning projects.

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Beginner Level

Approx. 6 hours to complete

English

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Instructors

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Sanjula Jain, Ph.D.

SVP Market Strategy & Chief Research Officer, Trilliant Health Adjunct Assistant Professor

Biomedical Informatics and Data Sciences

1,446 Learners

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Mark Komisky, JD

Director, Technology Development

Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures

1,446 Learners

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Overview and Introduction to Digital Health Entrepreneurship

In this module, you will gain insight into the scope and areas covered by digital health. We will explore and differentiate digital health subgroups of digital medicine and digital therapeutics and their importance to digital health and the practice of medicine. Then we explore in more detail the importance that digital health can have on the health care industry and the types of technologies and innovations driving change. Finally, we will look at telemedicine as a critical example of a digital health technology that has rapidly changed health care and how its adoption was accelerated by the COVID pandemic. All of this will be critical to your understanding and ability to examine opportunities in digital health as an entrepreneur.

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 60 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

5 videos

Introduction to Digital Health Entrepreneurship12mSample Digital Health Innovations8mTelemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring18mImplications for the Practice of Medicine12mCurrent Perspectives on Telemedicine9m

2 readings

Digital Health, Digital Medicine, Digital Therapeutics (DTx): What’s the difference?10mSoftware Has Eaten the World...And Healthcare is Next10m

1 practice exercise

Week 1 Quiz30m

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

The Digital Health Landscape

In this module, you will gain insight into the environmental conditions shaping the digital health landscape. We will first understand the macro trends impacting the U.S. healthcare system. Then you will learn from industry voices to better contextualize these trends from the perspective of the healthcare customer. You will then gain exposure to the foundations of financing mechanisms and public and private payment models. All of this will be critical to your understanding of what the opportunities are emerging as part of the next generation of digitally enabled healthcare.

2 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 90 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz

9 videos

Week 2 Introduction50sMacro Forces Shaping U.S. Healthcare, Part 111mMacro Forces Shaping U.S. Healthcare, Part 25mUnderstanding Your Customer20mInsurance 10111mPayments11mPayers9mThe Next Generation of Innovation, Part 19mThe Next Generation of Innovation, Part 27m

3 readings

A Model for Delivering Population Health Across the Care Continuum10mHealthcare 101: How Healthcare Reimbursement Works?10mValue Based Health Care is Inevitable and That's Good10m

1 practice exercise

Week 2 Quiz30m

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Improving Population Health: The Objective of Digital Health Innovation

Building on your understanding of the macro environment in which digital health must operate, this module will explore the nuances of exactly what challenges our healthcare system is trying to solve and the role that digital health solutions can play. Using population health as a guiding framework, you be guided through key areas of unmet needs and examples of implementation challenges. Tying it all together, you will learn from examples of how certain health technology companies are tackling some of these challenges and the importance of developing data-driven strategies.

3 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 103 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

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