Institute of Emerging Health Professions
Connected Care: Telehealth & Digital Health Innovation
Overview
Digital health and health technologies has a broad scope including categories such as telehealth, health information technology, wearables, mHealth etc. These technologies can provide new options for prevention, early diagnosis, and management of chronic conditions.
This certificate delves into emerging developments in areas of both telehealth and connect care and digital health to provide learners the knowledge of different healthcare data streams and arming them with best practices in technology adoption for business implementation.
Telehealth and Connected Care: An Advanced Course
This new 8-week, 3-credit online course takes a deep dive into the world of Telehealth and Connected Care. This is a great next step for students who have completed the telehealth certificate.
- Analyze the applications, benefits and challenges of Telehealth delivery
- Formulate an effective telehealth team with various roles
- Employ common Telehealth technologies with technical proficiency
- Compose a plan for general set-up, physical exam and troubleshooting during a Telehealth encounter
- Practice the ethical, legal, and regulatory considerations of Telehealth
- Organize programmatic issues and ways to improve systems
Learning Outcomes
The certificate consists of three courses which are completely online and asynchronous.
The goals of the certificate are as follows:
- Learners will gain a practical skill set to practice telehealth and implement and support telehealth programs.
- Learners will understand and apply various data science tools and health data streams.
- Learners will identify the legal, ethical and regulatory consideration for telehealth and other forms of digital health.
- Learners will understand the different aspects of business model creation to solve healthcare problems in telehealth and digital health within and outside their own institutions.
Curriculum
Course Name | Credit hours | Course Number | Format |
---|---|---|---|
*Telehealth and Connected Care: An Advanced Course | 3 |
DIGH 500 |
Online |
*Data of Healthcare and Emerging Technologies | 3 |
DIGH 501 |
Online |
*Business of Telehealth and Digital Health | 3 |
DIGH 502 |
Online |
*If you would like to take one course as non-matriculated student view more information here.
Contact Us
Program Contact

Shruti Chandra, MD, MEHP
Program Director, Digital Health, Institute of Emerging Health Professions Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
IEHP-Info@Jefferson.edu
Admissions Contact

Marc Stearns
Senior Associate Director of Admissions
Office of Admissions
(215) 503-0155
Marc.Stearns@jefferson.edu
Faculty & Lecturers

Aditi U. Joshi MD, MSc, FACEP
Content Expert and Significant Contributor
Senior Advisor, Acute Care Telehealth
Director, Telehealth Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
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Bracken Babula, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine
Medical Information Officer
Associate Quality Officer

Jeremy D. Close, MD
Associate Professor
Director - Sports Medicine Fellowship
Co-Director - Athlete Health Organization of Thomas Jefferson University
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University

Edgar Chou, MD, FACP
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Care Progression Analytics
Jefferson Department of Internal Medicine

Rebecca L. Davis, MD
APD, Internal Medicine Primary Care Program
APD, Internal Medicine Point of Care Ultrasound Fellowship
Clinical Assistant Professor

Adam P. Dicker, MD, PhD, FASTRO
Enterprise Senior Vice President
Director, Center for Digital Health and Data Science
Professor & Chair, Radiation Oncology
Department of Radiation Oncology Sidney Kimmel Medical College & Cancer Center

Mitchell A. Kaminski, MD, MBA Associate Professor, Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine
Navvis Associate Professor of Population Health
Program Director, Population Health
Jefferson College of Population Health

Sari Lahham, MD, MBA
Telehealth Leadership Fellow
Department of Emergency Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Emily Loscalzo, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Psychologist, Consultation and Liaison Services
Methodist Hospital Division
Thomas Jefferson University

Kristina McLean, CRNP
Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner
Emergency Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Alanna O’Connell D.O
Medical Education Fellow
Clinical Instructor
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Sejal H. Patel, PharmD., BCPS
Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist
Jefferson Methodist Hospital

Sharon R. Rainer, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, ENP-C Assistant Professor
Program Director, Family-Individual Across the Lifespan Program
Jefferson College of Nursing

Mari Siegel, MD FACEP, FAAEM
Clinical Associate Professor
Sydney Kimmel Medical College
Department of Emergency Medicine
Boarded in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine and Palliative and Hospice Medicine

Mary M. Stephens, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Medical Director, Jefferson Continuing Care Program

Brooke Worster, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Neu Center for Supportive Medicine and Cancer Survivorship
Ambulatory Director, Palliative Care Service
Department of Family & Community Medicine
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