Digital Health 101 is an online microcredential that introduces the fundamentals of digital health, explores cutting-edge innovations, and demonstrates the transformative impact of digital health on health and care services. In this course, you will learn from digital health experts who present engaging, real-world content.
The microcredential includes five hours of content across seven modules. This course is perfect for anyone working as a physiotherapist with an interest in digital health and the future of healthcare delivery.
The microcredential covers:
- The global trends influencing healthcare.
- The changing nature of how healthcare is delivered.
- How digital health enables all future change in healthcare.
- Technologies, innovations, and advancements within digital health (artificial intelligence, virtual care, remote monitoring, personalised care, and many more).
- How health and wellness are merging in a digitally enabled environment.
This course is brought to you by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
Learning outcomes
Each module within the Digital Health 101 course has a set of learning outcomes, these are noted within the online course and have been consolidated below for your record:
Module 1 - Introduction to Digital Health
- Describe the meaning of digital health
- Become aware of the key terminology used in digital health
- Recognise how digital health is relevant to key stakeholders in the sector
Module 2 - Understanding the Environment
- Describe the structure of the current healthcare system (the four tiers of the health landscape, private/public/not-for-profit) and its complexities
- Become aware of the key pressures and competing priorities on the health system
- Recognise the global trends in healthcare and how digital can enable these advances
- Identify the need for change and the core areas for change in healthcare
Module 3 - Opportunities Offered by Digital Health
- Explain the evolution of digital health (four waves/eras of digital health)
- Recognise the primary challenges that have arisen due to the rapid digital progression in healthcare
- Identify the latest advancements in digital health and how these will impact the future of healthcare
- Describe the advancements made to connect services and systems in healthcare
Module 4 - Understanding Data
- Understand the definition of data, types of data, and how data is generated and managed
- Describe how data relates to information, knowledge, and wisdom (DIKW Model)
- Explain how quality data can be achieved through data governance, data standards, and regulation
- Recognise the importance of consumer perspectives and the role of ethics, privacy and security
- Explore the real-life examples of new health services and outcomes derived through the power of data
Module 5 - Business and Service Models are Changing
- Recognise the need to adopt better care models which will enable a consumer-centric approach
- Describe the changing business, service, and care delivery models
- Define the types of change (incremental, transformational, and disruptive)
- Recall how digital health has enabled change from within the healthcare sector
- Identify the fresh players in health and the potential for new technologies, innovations, and services
Module 6 - Changing Roles and Responsibilities
- Understand that as digital health and new care models are adopted, the roles and responsibilities of people working in health and care will require change
- Recognise the anticipated changes in roles and responsibilities across the healthcare workforce
- Identify the need for innovative leadership and state how the workforce can increase their digital health capabilities
- Explain how increasing workforce capability in digital health can lead to patient empowerment, greater trust, and excellent clinical outcomes
Module 7 - Health and Wellness are Merging
- Understand the illness and wellness continuum and identify current examples of wellness
- Describe the need to move away from a system of illness to a system that supports wellness
- Explain the trends where health and wellness are merging (health and social care, disability, ageing etc.)
- Recognise how digital health supports wellness through innovations such as wearables, trackers, and mobile apps
CPD Hours
5.0 hours
