Find out about the benefits of digital health, and how you can check that digital health products, such as apps, are safe for you to recommend.
Introduction to Digital Health
This course helps you learn about what digital health is and the risks of using or recommending digital health products, such as health apps, without assessing them first.
You will also explore why digital health products, such as apps, need to be assessed to check if they meet digital health standards and regulations. And why we need to reassess them regularly.
The Importance of Prescribing Digital Health
Learn why we need to assess digital health products, such as apps, before you can recommend them to patients and people who use your services.
You will also learn how you can track the digital health products you recommend, and why it’s important to track what you recommend.
Add digital health to your continuous professional development
93% of clinicians believe digital technologies can help them and their patients, and many want more training.
83% of people who have used a health app found it helpful in improving their health and wellbeing.
52% of over-65s are willing to receive digital healthcare.
5 million people download a health app every day.
"Improving digital literacy across the health and social care landscape needs to be embedded in organisations and individuals
It is not intended to be an additional responsibility or burden for the workforce. Improving digital literacy should be an enabler and supporter to providing improved individual care, reducing the administrative burden, helping give people more control over their own health and wellbeing and exploiting the potential of technologies to close gaps in funding and efficiency as well as care and quality."
Health Education England