Digital Health Executive Course

The Digital Health Executive Course is an international course promoted by NOVA Public Health together with ENSP-NOVA and NOVA IMS, distinguished by the EIT-Health (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), as a High-Quality Project.

Its mission is to enable professionals in healthcare sector to develop digital transformation in their institutions by acquiring the skills to develop innovation and detect new Digital Health opportunities allowing for new working methods.

With an experienced and diverse team of lecturers from Portuguese and Spanish universities and institutions associated with Portuguese and Spanish health, this course provides a comprehensive view on Digital Health and comprises different subjects like organisational transformation, designing Digital Health projects, adopting technologies, and ethical and legal aspects.

Focusing on an improvement in the quality and provision of healthcare through Digital Health, this course explores new strategies for creating and implementing successful environments in Digital Health and includes three immersive workshops directed to the needs and interests of each student in the fields of Design Thinking, Patient Innovation, and Digital Health Technology.

At the end of the course, the students will have the opportunity to do a Pitch Presentation of the product/solution they developed during the course to a panel of key stakeholders in digital health, where the winning project will have the required support to make it feasible.

The Digital Health Executive Course also offers the possibility to attend an additional area of expertise: Telehealth and Strategic Leadership on Innovation.

Target Audience

This course is directed to professionals in the healthcare sector, namely doctors, managers, and professionals with decision-making responsibilities. It is intended for people with an interest in digital health and an entrepreneurial mindset, who wish to innovate in their organisation, to do something different, and cause an impact in and out of the organisation.

Goals

The course should provide participants with the fundamental knowledge to implement a Digital Health project. At the end of the course, students must be capable of:

• Understanding the role of Digital Health
• Applying digital leadership knowledge
• Understanding how thought and co-design may have an impact on the transformation of healthcare and organisational processes
• Designing projects that involve technology and patients
• Identifying the most important regulatory and ethical and social aspects of digital health
• Identifying digital communication challenges in health and relationships

COORDINATION AND TEACHING METHOD

Each module is coordinated by recognised experts in their own field. Two modules will be dedicated to immersive workshops, one in Lisbon and another one in Barcelona. Interactive and immersive teaching methods will be intended in every module.

The course is taught in English in a hybrid format (on line and in person).

Coordinators:
Teresa Magalhães (ENSP-NOVA) | Guilherme Vitorino (NOVA IMS)

Co-Coordinators:
João Cordeiro (ENSP-NOVA)| Miguel Cabral de Pinho (ENSP-NOVA)

CREDITATION

This course has creditation from Ordem dos Farmacêuticos, giving training credits in their countinuous professional traning program (Programa de Desenvolvimento Profissional Contínuo).

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Ana Sofia Silva
secretariado@ansp.pt