Introduction
Welcome to the Clinical Safety in Digital Health Intermediate course. This course builds on the concepts introduced in the Clinical Safety in Digital Health Introductory course.
In the introductory course, we learned that clinical safety in digital health is more than a technical or regulatory requirement. It’s a clinical and professional responsibility to protect patients from preventable harm.
Digital health offers huge benefits, but it also brings new and sometimes unexpected risks. These risks must be identified and managed systematically. This forms the cornerstone of the processes and activities required to ensure clinical safety in digital health.
In this intermediate course, you’ll go beyond the basics and develop practical skills to apply these principles in real-world digital health projects.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- promote and foster a clinical safety culture amongst digital health products services
- promote the importance of clinical governance and collaboration across the digital health products services lifecycle
- explain why clinical safety and related activities are important across the digital health products and services lifecycle
- apply key clinical safety activities across the digital health products and services lifecycle
- examine how clinical safety is actively managed through clinical governance, accountable roles and embedded expertise across the digital health product and services lifecycle.
Purpose
The purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding of clinical safety in digital health, in an Australian context.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- describe clinical safety in digital health
- explain how clinical safety in digital health contributes to better health outcomes
- identify clinical risks and hazards in digital health and how they are managed
- identify how clinical risks in digital health have potential to cause harm
- determine Australian standards and regulations that are relevant to clinical safety in digital health
- determine how you and others can contribute to clinical safety in digital health.