Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Innovation, Strategies, and Processes
Learn how digital transformation is reshaping healthcare and how leaders can use emerging technologies to redesign services, improve experiences and drive innovation across complex systems.
Course key facts
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Date
25 Jun - 27 August 2026
Duration
9 weeks
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Credits
Non credit bearing
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Format
Online
Fee
£1,280
Overview
Digital transformation is driving innovation in healthcare, creating new models and cultures and enhancing processes and user experiences. Yet with so many disparate sectors and providers – from pharmaceuticals, medical devices and hospitals to health insurers and regulatory authorities – the path to transformation will be as complex as the industry itself. To get there, today’s healthcare leaders must understand new technologies in healthcare and how they can be harnessed to rethink the way services are designed and delivered.
The nine week online programme draws on expertise from faculty, industry experts, simulations, and case studies. You will also draw on the expertise of your peers and explore how to use technologies to implement digital transformations across your organisation.
You will experience live online teaching sessions, video lectures, interactive activities and assignments whilst receiving personal support from a dedicated Learning Team.
You will finish the programme prepared to implement your learnings, and with a verified Digital Certificate.
Learning journey
Module 1: Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Module 2: Digital Platform Models for Healthcare
Module 3: Devising a Digital Transformation Strategy
Module 4: Digital Transformation in Hospital Operations
Module 5: Digital Transformation in Primary Care
Module 6: The Digital Patient Experience
Module 7: Digital Disruption in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Module 8: Digitisation in Healthcare Insurance and Payer Organisations
Module 9: Regulation in Digital Healthcare
Course details
This international programme is designed to provide a practical interpretation of the most critical challenges in healthcare today, and address how digital innovations can drive enhance efficiency, quality, and safety. The programme is suitable for:
- Mid-level business and functional managers and C-suite executives looking to future-proof their teams and strategies with a practical understanding of key uses of technology for advancing healthcare system goals
- Clinical leaders interested in advancing healthcare service delivery, patient outcomes, and operational productivity
- Consultants and entrepreneurs looking to identify strategies for advancing healthcare system goals and providing innovative products and solutions that directly address critical healthcare opportunities
This programme offers an expansive exploration of the core technologies that support digital transformation in healthcare. At the end of the programme, you will be able to:
- Explore the key technologies associates with digital health transformation
- Determine the role of digital health technologies in shaping future models of healthcare
- Examine different challenges in digital transformation across healthcare organisations: primary and secondary care providers, drug companies, and insurance companies
- Identify the challenges, success factors, and approaches to the implementation of digital health innovation
Each programme includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enrol. This programme is scored as a pass or no-pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Upon successful completion of the programme, you will receive a smart digital certificate. You can use it on your cover letter, resume and/or display it on your LinkedIn profile. The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the programme, once grading is complete.
Note: You will earn the Associate Alumni status upon successful completion of the programme. Visit the Associate Alumni page to find out more.
Take your partnership with Imperial to the next level by becoming an Associate Alumnus. Complete one (1) of our on-campus, online, and virtual programmes to claim 'Associate Alumnus' status and join our active alumni community.
Some of the benefits of becoming an Associate Alumnus include:
- Access to the Imperial Alumni LinkedIn group
- Invites to relevant events and webinars
- 25% Discount on future learning for yourself and up to three your colleagues
If you are interested in finding out more, contact us today!
Your instructors
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Loy Lobo
Digital Health Strategist and Innovator at WegyanikLoy Lobo is an experienced innovator and leader in healthcare. Over the past decade, he has taken a number of healthcare innovations from concept to market. He has launched a UK social enterprise start-up in wellness and was the founder of the telehealth business at BT Global Health. In his last role at BT, he was the Director of Strategy and Innovation for Global Health. In 2014, Loy set up Wegyanik, a health innovation company that applies design thinking, digital technologies and decision sciences to create the health and care services we require now and for the future. Wegyanik is developing markets, scaling up innovations and influencing whole system change in health and care services. He is experienced in the application of systems thinking and simulation modelling and is applying these techniques to accountable care and value-based healthcare opportunities. Loy is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, where he serves on its Digital Health Council as Preside
James Barlow
Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare)James Barlow is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare) at Imperial Business School and a member of the school's Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation. James has worked on healthcare innovation issues for 25 years. He is particularly interested in the challenges innovators, companies and healthcare organisations face in ensuring their innovations become embedded in everyday practice and in the policy and other mechanisms to facilitate this. He has led many research projects in the UK and abroad, including extensive work on the development and introduction of remote care technologies such as telehealth. He also advises and consults for government, healthcare services, and organisations from the health technology and construction sectors. James is an associate director of research for Imperial Health Partners and a member of the management team for the NIHR Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit. He also sits on several advisory boards, includ
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Rachael van der Toorn
Project Manager (Online Executive Education Portfolio)
