Career pathway
Digital Health & Innovation
Build the products that reach patients.
Apps, wearables and software-as-a-medical-device - how digital tools get built, regulated, evidenced and adopted in real health systems.
Register freeAround 15 hours, at your own pace
About this pathway
Digital health is where software meets patients directly - and where good ideas meet regulation, evidence requirements and the realities of NHS adoption. This pathway covers that whole journey.
Learning Health Systems sets the frame: how data can drive continuous improvement in care rather than one-off analysis. Bringing Software as a Medical Device to Market is the regulatory core - classification, clinical evidence, quality management - taught by people who shepherd products through it. Entrepreneurship in Digital Health covers building and commercialising products, and Health Research from Home brings in wearables and remote measurement, with a closing look at research-grade wearable data in cardiovascular research.
It is a natural pivot for clinicians moving towards industry and for product people moving into health. Careers run through product management in digital-health companies and MedTech firms, regulatory affairs, ICS digital programmes and startups - typically from product manager towards head of product or head of digital health.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain what a learning health system is and how data drives care improvement
- Navigate software-as-a-medical-device regulation, evidence and quality management
- Evaluate the clinical and commercial case for a digital-health product
- Use wearable and remote-measurement data in research responsibly
- Speak both languages: clinical need and product delivery
What's in this pathway
5 steps
Who this pathway is for
Clinicians and healthcare professionals who want to shape the tools they use; product managers and founders entering health; engineers who want to understand the regulated side of patient-facing software. No programming required.
Ready to work towards this career?
Apps, wearables and software-as-a-medical-device - how digital tools get built, regulated, evidenced and adopted in real health systems.
