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Course Length

4 weeks

3–4 hours per week

Featuring faculty from:

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Certificate Price:

$ 1,600

Apply by Aug 11, 2025

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Certificate Price:

$ 1,600

Apply by Aug 11, 2025

Apply Now

Taught by Harvard Medical School faculty, this Harvard Online course explores the opportunities and difficulties facing widespread adoption of digital technologies in the US health care system and explores innovative frameworks to think strategically about implementing digital transformation in your organization.

How has digital transformation influenced the health care industry?

Millions of health-related data points are captured every day, from information collected by our personal devices and doctor's office visits to public health data collection about disease prevalence and treatment outcomes. Digital technologies have transformed how we buy and listen to music and how we plan our travel. Will there be a similar digital disruption in health care?

Throughout this online digital health certificate program, you will become familiar with developments that have led to digital transformation in health care and weigh the pros and cons of digital technology in health care. You will understand the process of product development in digital health innovation by participating in a fictional hackathon, working alongside other learners to determine which digital tools to invest in.

Instructor-Paced

HBS Online

Industries:

  • Health Care
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Technology
  • Consulting
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Harvard Case Method Premium Learning

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Understand How Digital Health Technologies Address Key Challenges

Evaluate how health technology and digital healthcare management tools improve access, experience, and outcomes. Identify gaps in care that can be addressed with healthtech solutions and data-driven approaches.

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Analyze the Use of Health Data and Digital Tools

Examine how collecting and applying health data can inform decisions while managing privacy risks and analytical pitfalls. Assess the role of AI, apps, and sensors in transforming patient care and health system performance.

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Navigate Barriers to Implementing Digital Innovation

Explore the regulatory, ethical, and operational challenges of bringing digital health products to market. Understand the competing needs of stakeholders involved in digital transformation in health care.

  • Learn from real case studies
  • Do it on your own time
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Syllabus

Digital technologies hold great potential for enhancing health care, in terms of empowering patients, improving access and equity, and delivering better health outcomes. Yet health care’s digital transformation lags behind that of other industries. This course, Digital Health, aims to help learners unlock digital transformation in health care and improve the industry by providing a framework to enable learners to think strategically about digital health solutions, develop and deploy them in health care’s unique culture and ecosystem, and navigate the sometimes competing needs of health care’s multiple stakeholders. Learning requirements: There are no prerequisites required to take this course. To earn a Certificate of Completion from Harvard Online, participants must thoughtfully complete modules 1 through 4.

Faculty

Industry Experts

Your Instructor

Stanley Y. Shaw, MD, PhD

Stanley Y. Shaw, MD, PhD is the Associate Dean for Executive Education at Harvard Medical School. In this role, he directs Harvard Medical School's programs for companies and individuals in the health care industry that provide insights into leadership behaviors and emerging technologies. These programs educate learners across diverse sectors of health care, such as tech, IT, biopharma, investing, and care delivery organizations. A practicing cardiologist, Dr. Shaw’s research studies how digital tools, bioinformatics, the gut microbiome, and patient-reported data can be leveraged to better assess health and disease.

Industry Expert

Katherine Chou

Hear from the Director of Research & Innovations at Google on using health and AI data for social good.

Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.

Industry Expert

Marcus Osborne

Learn from the Senior Vice President of Walmart Health on using digital technologies to make health care more affordable and accessible.

Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.

Industry Expert

Sean Duffy

Hear from the CEO of Omada Health on designing user-friendly digital tools for optimizing patient success.

Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only.

Overall, my experience with Harvard Online’s Digital Health course has been profoundly rewarding. It has provided me with the knowledge and skills necessary to drive innovation in healthcare and has been a catalyst for my professional growth. I am excited about the future and confident that the insights and connections gained from this course will continue to influence my career in meaningful ways.
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Take two extra eligible courses for and receive a Health Care Leadership Certificate of Specialization

Health Care Leadership courses are developed with health care professionals in mind. Harvard University faculty guides you through topics with a specific focus on the current state of the US health care system and how you can apply innovative strategies to make improvements within your organization.

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  • Choose 3 eligible courses
  • Complete your courses within 18 months
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Past Participant Discounts

Learners who have enrolled in at least one qualifying Harvard Online program can receive a 30% discount, automatically applied to the Program Fee upon time of payment.

Learners who have earned a verified certificate for a HarvardX course hosted on the edX platform are eligible to receive a 30% discount using a discount code. Please check your email for a code or contact us.

Nonprofit, Government, Military, and Education Discounts

Eligibility is determined by a prospective learner’s email address, ending in .org, .gov, .mil, or .edu. Interested learners can apply below for the discount and, if eligible, will receive a promo code to enter when completing payment information to enroll in a Harvard Online program. 

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