Digital Transformation and Innovation in Healthcare

Lead digital transformation and healthcare initiatives that will create patient-centric and value-based health ecosystems, placing innovative leadership at the heart of your career. 

Seen as the elixir for health systems stretched to capacity, extraordinary sums are being invested into the digitalisation and technological reinvention of health and wellness. As a healthcare leader, digital transformation and innovation are opportunities for you to create new healthcare ecosystems that are patient-centric, value-based, and accessible for all. This week-long executive education course has been designed by world leading UCL experts to enable you to confidently lead your organisation into a more digitalised and innovative era.

A career changing experience

• Delivered by the UCL Global Business School for Health (UCL GBSH) – the world’s first business school dedicated to health – our Digital Transformation and Innovation in Healthcare executive education course provides an opportunity for you to pause and reflect from your everyday leadership activities, helping you to drive digital transformation and innovation across your organisation more effectively in the long-term. Just some of the highlights of the course include site visits across London’s complex health ecosystem, exploring some of the key topics and trends in healthcare innovation alongside experts and peers, and working on a group project to put your learning to practice on a real world topic. Complete with a new network of likeminded global health leaders, you’ll come away with the skills to lead digitalisation and innovation in your healthcare organisation.

The power of UCL and London

• Embarking on this executive education course brings you the exceptional benefits of studying at a world top 10 university with globally renowned health credentials. You’ll make the most of our elite custom built facilities at UCL East, where UCL’s heritage, disruptive spirit and ambitions for public good converge. Anchored by the inimitable experience of London – a global city that is a leader in health and business – the Digital Transformation and Innovation in Healthcare executive education course provides unprecedented opportunities to retain your edge as a talented healthcare leader who can successfully implement meaningful digitalisation and promote innovation. 

Make a difference as a senior leader

• Technological innovation is a rapidly growing area of healthcare, with the potential to positively transform healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Driving the demand for digital innovation are demographic shifts, the rise in noncommunicable diseases, social inequalities, and climate change. Coupled with our ability to harness data and analyse it to allow the health sector to focus on prevention, diagnostics, and treatment, the potential for digital innovation to transform healthcare organisations is significant. An executive education course designed by global experts in this field, you will leave this course empowered to lead transformational digital innovation in healthcare settings.

What's involved

• This carefully designed programme draws on a wide range of research and expertise to develop your skills as innovative healthcare leaders.
• The course has real world value, giving you new ideas, strategies and tactics to align your people with technology, ensuring your organisation is ahead of the curve.
• You’ll explore all the key areas of digital transformation and innovation in this course, which will form the building blocks of your organisation’s future digital innovation strategies. Topics include the trends and disruptors in digital health, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for healthcare, health needs assessments and data analytics, population healthcare management, wearable technology and decision making in healthcare organisations.
• Group projects will also be developed during the week, informed by learning and discussion from throughout the course. You’ll present your project at the end of the week, which will be critiqued by a panel of health experts.
• Participants also benefit from the tremendous excellence in healthcare that London offers, with access to several experts in the digital health space and site visits across London’s complex health ecosystem.
• Networking opportunities include a welcome reception and a group dinner. 

Who the programme is for

• Our Digital Transformation and Innovation in Healthcare executive education course is for ambitious healthcare leaders who want to drive forward transformational digitalisation and innovation in their healthcare organisations. You may be a clinical leader, policymaker, healthcare executive or manager tasked with making decisions on digital health innovations in your healthcare organisation. 

Programme curriculum

• Incorporating both contextualised and experiential learning, this course is delivered through interactive lectures from guest speakers and UCL academics, which is supplemented by site visits, reading, participant discussions and hands on exercises. You will also be given access to recorded sessions and pre-reading before the start of the course and throughout the modules. Much of the learning will be directed through real world case studies and project-based learning from leading experts in HealthTech and MedTech sectors. 
• The course content is delivered through eight modules over five days, from 9:30am-5:30pm (UK GMT), with an hour-long break for lunch. Each day ends with a 360-degree feedback session, where you will be invited to share your reflections on your learning, the speakers, events, and activities across the day, and receive comments from the module conveners that day. These sessions will also be an opportunity for you to engage in peer-to-peer dialogue and peer review.
• As part of your self-led learning, academic readings and self-assessment tools will be available online. There will also be discussion forums on our course Moodle website where you can pose questions to colleagues and instructors throughout the week for debate and answers.
• Students will complete two assessments for the programme. The first is a self-reflection log on your experience as a leader in driving digital health and innovation in your organisation. The second assessment will involve a group challenge and presentation involving conceptualising and proposing a digital innovation in healthcare using design thinking. On completion of the course and the two assessments, you will receive a certificate from UCL GBSH and CPD accredited points.

Modules

• Trends and Disruptors in Digital Health
• Introduction to AI and Machine Learning for Healthcare
• Health Assessment and Digital Health
• Data and Data Analytics for Healthcare
• Population Healthcare Management
• Wearables and the Future of Patient Driven Healthcare
• Understanding how to Measure and Assess Health Innovations for Decision Making
• Pulling it all together

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand a range of different digital health innovations – along with the benefits and issues – that are currently being used in healthcare.
• Effectively use evaluation techniques and other approaches to assess health technologies and population management.
• Consider the impact AI is having on health delivery and the future opportunities and challenges associated with it.
• Develop tools for making decisions about digital health investments.
• Understand the concepts and ideas of digital health and innovation in relation to healthcare improvements, giving you ideas about how you can design your organisation for the new health economy.
• Identify and evaluate the impact digital transformation and disruptions are having on strategic management in your organisation.
• Create plans for continual engagement with stakeholders for the application and ongoing management of innovations.
• Demonstrate complex problem solving and decision making skills.
• Apply learning to your specific organisational challenges and opportunities.
• Deepen your networks and relationships with leaders in the health sector, along with world leading academics and health experts.