Health care is different from retail, banking, or travel. Digital transformation in health care needs people who are bilingual – fluent in the powerful, new digital tools that are emerging, but also in the culture and workflows of real-life medicine. Innovations in health care face unique challenges, such as data privacy laws and protections, established workflows, and disjointed payment systems. There’s no substitute for the patient-doctor relationship – that connection based on trust and empathy that lies at the heart of the sprawling health care system.

What you’ll learn

• Understand how digital technologies can address critical pain points in health care
• Learn how to think about applications of collecting and using data to inform health care, and the privacy risks and analytical pitfalls unique to health care data
• Explore the opportunities and difficulties of enabling digital approaches, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, apps, and sensors
• Navigate the systemic barriers and often conflicting needs of health care stakeholders in bringing digital technologies to market
• Become adept at analyzing gaps in health care that can be closed with technology and data