Course director, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen
Digital Health
Digital health covers a wide range of health care products and services such as health and medical websites and platforms; telemedicine and telehealth.
The scientific literature and popular media frequently comment on how digital health offers new and improved ways of delivering health care. Digital solutions include a wide range of health care products and services ranging from AI-based clinical support to telemedicine and telehealth. Digital health technology includes simple apps and scheduling tools as well as digital interventions that completely replace pharmaceuticals or other traditional health care interventions as in the case of insomnia treatment. Despite the promises and prospects of digital solutions there are many challenges and problems to be solved in this new digital health era.
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 now play a central role in their own health care due to improvements in self-monitoring and self-care made possible by real world data and new digital solutions. This situation requires new methods for measuring the value of digital solutions for 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
- The complexities of reimbursement in digital health
- Big data and what it means for the future of healthcare
- How COVD 19 has changed the trajectory for digital health
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Course directors and lecturers on Digital Health
Course information - Digital Health
Key benefits - implement Digital Health Solutions
Upon completion of the course, participants will have gained the following knowledge, skills and competencies:
Knowledge
- Acquire a basic vocabulary and understanding of digital health issues and solutions
- Understand the ethical concerns and transparency issues of digital health
- Understand the key steps in developing and implementing digital health solutions
Skills
- Identify the key stakeholders, their interests and motivations
- Discuss and evaluate rationales for and consequences of digital health solutions
- Identify, evaluate and discuss ethical concerns
Competencies
- Critically reflect upon digital health proposals and practices
- Communicate specific issues and proposals for digital health with other specialists and stakeholders
- Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary digital health project team
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
Participant profile - Digital Health
The course is aimed at providing continuing professional development for persons working in: healthcare, public health; pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics industries. For example, managers and providers in the health care sector, persons working in regulatory affairs including decision-makers and administrators in the public and private sectors as well as patient organizations. The course is preapproved as an elective in the Master of Industrial Drug Development (MIND) programme and the Master of Medicines Regulatory Affairs (MRA) programme.
Participants must:
- Hold a relevant bachelor degree or equivalent
- Have a minimum of 2 years of relevant job experience
- Be proficient in English
Dates and Examination
12-16 August 2024
This is a 5-day course.
Expected to be offered next time in August 2025.
- An optional examination is available (3 ECTS credits at Master’s level) in the form of an individual written assignment. Based on a relevant set of questions provided by the course manager and based on an extended literature list.
- The course is preapproved as an elective in the MIND and MRA programmes at the University of Copenhagen.
- The exam is obligatory for Master’s students.
Dates for examination can be found in the exam schedule.
You may find relevant information about the exam in the course curriculum.
Interview with the course directors
Digital Health: A course that combines lectures, networking, and cases.
This article looks at the course in Digital Health with course directors Janine Traulsen, and Natalja Genina, both from the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Copenhagen. The course was held for the first time in August 2022 and again in 2023. Based on the very positive evaluation will be offered again in August 2024.
The article explores the weeklong course that is designed for managers and professionals in the field of pharmaceuticals, from both public and private organizations. The course combines theoretical knowledge, group work and case studies, ensuring participants gain an understanding of recent developments in the dynamic world of digital health.
Read the full article here: Interview with Janine & Natalja
Location
University of Copenhagen
South Campus, Faculty of Law
Njalsgade 76
DK-2300 København S
Denmark
Contact
Copenhagen Summer University
csu@adm.ku.dk
Registration for the course will commence in January 2025
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