Foundations of Digital Health & Ethical Aspects

This specialization offers a comprehensive understanding of digital health, covering its global significance, historical evolution, and the technologies that drive transformation in healthcare, including telehealth, telemedicine, mHealth, eHealth, electronic health records, robotics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT, and big data. Learners will gain insights into strategies and approaches promoted by the World Health Organization and country-level initiatives, while also examining the opportunities, benefits, and challenges of digital transformation in healthcare systems worldwide, especially during and after the COVID-19 era. The course further explores the progression of healthcare from 1.0 to 5.0, highlighting innovations such as personalised medicine, cyber-physical systems, remote monitoring, robotic surgeries, and smart healthcare ecosystems, alongside ethical principles of trust, privacy, equity, inclusivity, transparency, and governance that guide responsible implementation, with particular emphasis on AI, data use, and global regulatory frameworks. By the end of the program, learners will be equipped to understand digital health comprehensively, evaluate its role in reshaping healthcare delivery, and know ethical frameworks to ensure its equitable and sustainable use across diverse contexts.