Digital Health

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
• Advanced drug delivery systems