Summer course in Digital Health Care and Technology
Course content - Digital Health Care and Technology
Digital health covers a wide range of health care products and services such as health and medical websites and platforms; decision algorithms, personal health apps, telemedicine and telehealth. Digital health technology ranges from simple scheduling tools to digital interventions that can potentially replace pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, as well as a variety of health care interventions. Digital health technology introduces new and innovative solutions for health care at the same time optimizing patient outcomes. It provides the possibility for patients to gain more control over their treatment and become more sovereign in handling their own unique health care situation. Digital tools can change the patient pathways, the choice of interventions and the relationship between the actors in a treatment situation.
Patients play a central role due to improvements in self-monitoring and self-care made possible by real world data and new digital solutions. This situation requires new endpoints for measuring value, in order to demonstrate value to regulators, health care providers, patients and payers.
The course will address the following:
- Introduction to Digital Health Care
- Digital health practices – examples from the real world
- Stakeholders, new players and new business models
- Possibilities for collaboration between Big Tech, decision makers, practitioners and patients
- Impact on patient relevant outcomes
- Ethical concerns and transparency issues
- The regulatory environment for digital tools
- How digital tools are reimbursed by the public health care system
- Big data and what it means for the future of healthcare
- How COVD-19 has changed the trajectory for digital health