INTRODUCTION

There is an acute shortage of digital health professionals both in the private and government sectors, the COVID 19 pandemic has opened up an ocean of opportunities for digital health professionals. Sowkhya Carenet Private Limited in association with B N Patel Institute of Paramedical, is presenting a Digital Health Professional certification course with specialization. The 5 day course is designed to cater to each specialization focused on bringing awareness in participants on digital health adoption.

DIGITAL CARE COORDINATION

Registration, affiliation and digital care coordination between patients, doctors, nurses, etc. across multiple entities such as hospitals, clinics, pharmacy, labs, patient homes, ambulance, etc. to ensure timely provisioning of services, resources and facilities for patient care. Resource management, service scheduling and booking, tracking and information support, e-commerce support, administrative tracking with MIS reporting.

TELE DIAGNOSTICS

Role of Tele Diagnostic technology is in various scenarios of care delivery at hospital, labs, clinics and homes. Essential knowledge and skills for digital data acquisition, aggregation, storage, distribution and presentation of health data for process automation in diagnostics and specialist opinion to enable tele-radiology, tele-pathology, etc.

DIGITAL HEALTH OVERVIEW (FOUNDATION SESSION)

Role of digital health technology in various scenarios of care delivery at hospitals, clinics, homes and disaster locations. Context based needs and activities in emergency, curative, palliative and preventive care scenarios. Essential knowledge and skills for digital data acquisition, aggregation, storage, distribution and presentation of health data for various documents such as patient health history, patient discharge summaries, prescriptions, diagnostic reports, examination notes, referral, SOP's, bills, receipts and audit reports.

PARA LEGAL ASSISTANCE

Documentation para legal compliance tracking and traceability in various health services of multiple care provider entities such as hospitals, labs, clinics, etc. providing tele health services, contract analysis and drafting, data analytics and reporting for para legal audit trials. Digital publishing of guidelines and announcements related to legal compliance. Ethical behaviour in various roles for good clinical practices, various requirements for protecting privacy and maintaining security to protect all users including themselves, patients and providers important guidelines, rules and legal compliances that apply to practice of healthcare on digital platforms.

POINT OF CARE TELE ASSISTANCE

Patient health record formats, document capture and indexing into the EMR, protocol orientation, tele assistance to patients in procurement, medication, diet, symptom tracking, patient remote health monitoring and emergency support, booking and conducting tele consultations with doctors, digital capture and upload of routine measurements.

DIGITAL PHARMA

Digital Pharmacy concept, supply chain management, inventory management, e-procurement and logistics management and cold chain monitoring. Commercial documentation and processes for billing, payment collection and distribution using e-commerce. Organizing shipment and tracking delivery to customer.

BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS

Computer fundamentals such as documentation, presentation and software operations skills which help health professionals to adopt digital health meaningfully.