Designing digital health projects: problem to solution
Transform your digital health idea into a project to truly drive healthcare innovation
Have an idea to improve clinical practice but not sure how to make it happen?
This self-paced online course helps you turn your idea into a practical, evidence-based project in just six weeks. You’ll get templates, tools, and two opportunities for expert feedback to guide you along the way.
Working in short, focused steps, you’ll build your project piece by piece—whether it’s for a research project, an internal business case, or external funding.
By the end of the course, you will:
- Clearly define the problem using insights from stakeholders perspectives, literature, and organisational contexts.
- Shape a solution that uses data and digital tools as enablers to improve care—addressing real-world challenges with a people-centered and value-driven approach.
- Communicate your idea effectively to clinicians, consumers, IT teams, and decision-makers.
- Ensure your project considers digital health equity and accessibility.
- Produce a project brief tailored to your goals.
This short course empowers participants to develop digital health solutions by exploring evidence, engaging stakeholders, and crafting clear, impactful project proposals. Dr Olivia Metcalf
This course is for everyone in the early stages of their digital health journey. Whether you are a clinician engaged in quality improvement, a researcher exploring digital solutions or in an industry role that is transforming, if you want to progress your digital idea to a plan, this course is for you. Dr Kara Burns
Course outline
This course offers a structured series of interconnected modules, combining online learning with live coaching sessions, to guide you through the process of developing impactful digital health projects.
- Sprint 1: Forget the solution! Unpack the problem and conduct an environmental scan
- Sprint 2: Engage stakeholders and explore existing solutions
- Expert coaching circle session 1
- Sprint 3: Define solution concepts and dive into technical, economic, and implementation considerations
- Sprint 4: Create a logic model, craft the scope and ensure alignment
- Expert coaching circle session 2
Recommended to be completed in short iterative bursts within suggested time frames, each sprint contains up to 14 hours of learning activities and is complemented by two expert coaching sessions alongside peer learning.
This comprehensive course equips you with the tools to transform challenges into actionable digital health solutions. Join us to build your expertise and drive meaningful change!
Recommended timeline:
- Self-paced Sprints 1 & 2
- Coaching circle session 1
- Self-paced Sprints 3 & 4
- Coaching circle session 2
Key features
- Expert Coaching Cicles: Learn from leading professionals in digital health and healthcare innovation.
- Hands-On Learning: Develop a project relevant to your interests and goals.
- Ready-made templates: Fast-track project development with ready-made templates to guide project builds.
- Collaborative Environment: Engage with peers and receive constructive feedback.
- Real-World Application: Focus on practical tools and strategies for immediate impact.
What are the prerequisites?
There are no formal prerequisites, but participants should be motivated, ready to engage with online material and attend the virtual coaching sessions.
- Strong interest in the topic and commitment to complete the course within the time frame and actively engage in the coaching sessions
- Designed specifically with the clinician-led problem in mind.
- Counts for CHIA CPD points
Who is the course designed for?
Anyone who has identified a clinical or health service problem and is inspired to led change.
- Healthcare Professionals: Clinicians, administrators, and allied health workers eager to drive digital innovation.
- IT Specialists: Those working at the intersection of technology and healthcare.
- Researchers: Individuals focused on healthcare innovation and implementation science.
- Leaders and Managers: Decision-makers aiming to integrate digital solutions into organisational strategy.
FAQs
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Course fees are $850.
Group discounts are available. For more information, click here.
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No. Part of this course is really about taking an idea and turning it in to something actionable. We walk through the steps to ensure that you finish with a project that is innovative, people-centered and value-driven.
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Many ideas that start out as digital health solutions often turn out to not be, and that’s ok. That’s where we are here to help explore whether a digital health option best suits your context. Our goal is to help find the best solution to your problem.
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The format of this course suits the ideation stage, however any stage is suitable. Quite often projects get legs and then need a reset as the solution does not quite fit the true problem. This is where the course may provide some insight.
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12 October – 26 October
- Sprint 1: Fall in love with the problem
26 October – 8 November
- Sprint 2: Identify stakeholders and existing solutions
9 November – 22 November
- Sprint 3: Define solution concepts and assess contextual factors
23 November – 6 December
- Sprint 4: Develop logic models, scoping and alignment
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This short course is designed to help identify what best direction to take your project. At the end, you will have a finished product that can set you up for a competitive funding case, or start down the research pathway. Our experts will be able to help you decide.
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Contact CDTH Education Team, designing-dh@unimelb.edu.au, if you have any questions about the course or any payment queries.