Introduction to Digital health
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Introduction to Digital health at Coursera Overview
Duration | 30 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Introduction to Digital health at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 1 of 3 in the Digital Health Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Intermediate Level
- Approx. 30 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Introduction to Digital health at Coursera Course details
- This course introduces the field of digital health and the key concepts and definitions in this emerging field. The key topics include Learning Health Systems and Electronic Health Records and various types of digital health technologies to include mobile applications, wearable technologies, health information systems, telehealth, telemedicine, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data. These technologies are assessed in terms of the key opportunities and challenges to their use and the evidence of their effectiveness in the field of digital health in relation to public health and healthcare globally. The use and application of digital health for COVID-19 forms a case study demonstrating the use of different types of digital health technologies to address key aspects of the response to the virus globally.
Introduction to Digital health at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Digital Health
Growth in Digital Health Technologies
Personalised and Population Digital Health Approaches
Doing Digital Health Badly
The Digital Healthcare System in Estonia: Interview
About Imperial College London
About the digital health team
How to be successful in this course?
Grading Policy
Glossary
Digital Health: Definitions in the literature
Your key concepts from the literature
The Mobile Economy 2020
Reflections: The Mobile Economy 2020
Grand challenges in Digital Health
Why Digital Health projects succeed or fail
Reaction to the Failed UK NPfIT
Reflections: Reaction to the UK's failed NPfIT
Estonia?s Digital Health system
Reflections: Estonia?s Digital Health system
The impact of Digital Health on the quality and safety of health care
Reflection: The impact of Digital Health on the quality and safety of health care
Introduction to Digital Health - knowledge check
Electronic Health Records and Learning Health Systems
Introduction to Electronic Health Records
Interview with Professor Alex Bottle
Electronic health records in use: supporting population health
Electronic health records in use: delivering benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic
Learning Health Systems ? An Introduction
The Science of Learning Health Systems
Optional readings
Complexities of Learning Health Systems
Optional reading
Examples and illustrations of how Health Systems learn
Reflection: electronic health records supporting population health
Reflection: electronic health records delivering benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic
Reflection: the science of Learning Health Systems
Reflection: complexities of Learning Health Systems
Knowledge check: Electronic Health Records and Learning Health Systems
Introduction to Digital Health Technologies ? Part I
Mobile Applications and Wearable Technologies
Apps and wearables and the healthcare system
Introduction to the Ebola Contact Tracing Study
Practical examples of the use of mHealth applications in India and Sierra Leone
Podcast: The use of digital tools for data collection for public health
Classification of Digital Health Interventions
Introduction to the types of technologies
Evidence on the effectiveness of mHealth interventions
Optional: Contact tracing in Guinea using an app
Digital health and epidemic preparedness and response
Optional readings
Health Information Systems
Essential features of a Health Information System
The use of digital tools for data collection for public health
mHealth systematic review
Introduction to Digital Health Technologies
Introduction to Digital Health ? Part II
Telehealth and telemedicine
Artificial Intelligence
Gamification
Behavioural science
Big data
The State of Telehealth
Optional readings
Introduction to the use of social media in healthcare
The use of social media in public health
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Gamification and Behavioural sciences in relation to Digital Health
Optional reading: Big Data and the real world
Final Summative Quiz
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