Digital Health Essentials

A number of Medical Royal Colleges have Digital Health or Information Technology in their specialist training curricula, but they are not taught formally. The assumption is that these skills are innate in the next generation of doctors. We disagree, and our intent with this course is to bring together a number of topics such as:

• Digital Health Records
• Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Confidentiality
• Mobile Healthcare and Telecare
• Controlled Terminologies
• Quality and Outcome Measures
• Electronic Medicines Management
• Big Data and AI in Healthcare

We aim to build a formal syllabus and to keep it up to date as the contribution of Digital Health/Health Informatics to the NHS grows and evolves.