This specialization offers a comprehensive understanding of digital health, covering its global significance, historical evolution, and the technologies that drive transformation in healthcare, including telehealth, telemedicine, mHealth, eHealth, electronic health records, robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT, and big data. Learners will gain insights into strategies and approaches promoted by the World Health Organization and country-level initiatives, while also examining the opportunities, benefits, and challenges of digital transformation in healthcare systems worldwide, especially during and after the COVID-19 era. The course further explores the progression of healthcare from 1.0 to 5.0, highlighting innovations such as personalised medicine, cyber-physical systems, remote monitoring, robotic surgeries, and smart healthcare ecosystems, alongside ethical principles of trust, privacy, equity, inclusivity, transparency, and governance that guide responsible implementation, with particular emphasis on AI, data use, and global regulatory frameworks. By the end of the program, learners will be equipped to understand digital health comprehensively, evaluate its role in reshaping healthcare delivery, and know ethical frameworks to ensure its equitable and sustainable use across diverse contexts.
Foundations of Digital Health & Ethical Aspects Specialization
Digital Health Transformation & Ethical Principals. Understand digital health transformation, ethical principles, and equitable healthcare delivery
Instructor: Prof. Paul S. Lalvani
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What you'll learn
Learn the foundations, evolution, key technologies, and WHO guidelines shaping digital health globally.
Understand digital transformation, its benefits, challenges, and global responses during and after COVID-19.
Explore Healthcare 1.0–5.0, including cyber-physical systems, remote monitoring and smart healthcare ecosystems.
Learn ethical principles, governance frameworks, and privacy measures guiding responsible digital health technology development & implementation.
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Skills you'll gain
- Telehealth
- Informed Consent
- Health Disparities
- Health Policy
- Medical Privacy
- Healthcare Ethics
- Health Informatics
- Health Care Administration
- Medical Equipment and Technology
- Public Health
- Ethical Standards And Conduct
- Public Health and Disease Prevention
- Regulation and Legal Compliance
- Data Ethics
- Digital Transformation
- Surgery
- Health Care Procedure and Regulation
- Health Technology
- Health Equity
- Information Privacy
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Specialization - 4 course series
What you'll learn
Understand global health, its challenges, and how it addresses disparities to promote equity worldwide.
Explore digital health components and their role in expanding healthcare access and collaboration globally.
Recognize the key benefits of digital health in improving health outcomes and system efficiency.
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
Understand key components, benefits, and challenges of digital transformation in healthcare during COVID-19.
Explore global case studies on how countries used digital tools to strengthen healthcare delivery and resilience.
Analyse strategies and barriers in adopting digital health technologies across diverse contexts.
What you'll learn
Trace healthcare’s evolution from 1.0 to 4.0, highlighting key technological and operational shifts shaping the sector.
Explore Industry 4.0 in healthcare through CPS, P4 medicine, remote monitoring, and robotic surgery innovations.
Understand Healthcare 5.0, balancing smart tech with human touch, workforce readiness, and policy implications.
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
Understand core ethical principles in digital health, including autonomy, privacy, equity, transparency, and patient safety.
Explore bioethics frameworks, global regulations, and strategies for responsible, inclusive digital health innovation.
Analyse ethical challenges of AI in healthcare, focusing on privacy, bias, security, and practical guidelines for adoption.
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