Course Description

As the health landscape underwent major transformation brought by the pandemic, the delivery of healthcare is also shifting. Various healthcare practices are revisited by many, and novel technological innovations will change the delivery of global healthcare. These technological solutions can be integrated as smart hospital solutions. Learn how smart hospitals will shape the future of healthcare in this collaboration course with St. James School of Medicine.

In this 32-hours course will explore the key challenges and opportunities shaping the smart hospital trends, introduce key principles and components of smart hospitals and prove its business cases. Most importantly we will explore the smart technologies used in smart hospitals using practical use cases: the application of AI, Big Data, IoT, and Automation in hospitals.

Learn about the biotech that enables the treatments that we have now, as well as novel technologies that will one day change the entire healthcare industry. See beyond the wonders of modern medicine.

This course will provide insights on how to identify the right smart hospital solutions using design thinking principles and stakeholder exercises.

This course series will benefit doctors, hospital managers, executives, healthcare investors and anyone in the life science and health industry interested in adapting to the technological transformation in the health landscape.

This is one of five courses in our Medical Technology Track that leads to a completion certificate.

Topics Covered

Part 1: Smart Hospital Trends
- Rising Challenges and Opportunities Created
- Key Market Trends Shaping the Smart Healthcare Landscape

Part 2: Introduction to Smart Hospital
- Key Principles and Components of Smart Hospitals
- Business Case: Improving Quality, Efficiency, and Effectivity in Health Care

Part 3: Smart Technology for Smart Hospital (Practical Use Cases)

• AI, Big Data, and Machine Learning Applications for Predictive Analytics
• IoT and Cloud Application: Interconnected Clinical Information Systems, Electronic Health Record, Remote Patient Monitoring, and other trends
• Automation: Pharmacy Automation, Hospital Inventory Management, Digital Patient Record, and other trends

Part 4: Implementing Smart Hospital Solutions
- Design Thinking to build Human-Centered Design in Health Care
- Stakeholder impact analysis
- Possible challenges in identifying and implementing a smart hospital system

Part 5: Emerging Biotech
- History of critical technology in Healthcare
- Major improvements to existing biotechnology
- The frontier of biotech today: Gene Therapy, 3D Printed Organs, Organoids, Stem Cells, Microbiome Manipulation, Telesurgery, Nanotechnology

Part 6: The Future of Biotech
- Experimental Technologies and their use cases
- The Future of Precision Medicine
- Rapid Growth of Personalized Medicine
- Barriers and Challenges to New Biotech Adoption
- Non-Health Related Biotech that Affect the Future of Healthcare
- What comes next?

Other Courses in this Track

Artificial Intelligence for Genomics
Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging
Entrepreneurship Track for Medical Professionals

Your Instructors

Xccelerate is partnering up with a Saint James School of Medicine to deliver a world-class curriculum that covers both theoretical and technical knowledge related to those who wish to start their own business.

Your instructors will vary. Scientific knowledge will be delivered by the doctors and professors at Saint James, while the technical and business knowledge will be instructed by leading industry professionals.