Digital Health Practice

Thought leadership for future-ready health and well-being systems.

Blending the disciplines, skills, and technologies required to make health systems smarter and future ready, Digital Health Practice builds relevant capabilities through integrated training & mentorship, stimulates cross-industry collaboration and co-creation, and generates applied research-driven insights to advance opportunities for a smarter health future.

Mission

Delivering sustainable impact by designing future care experiences through collaboration and mentorship consulting.

Vision

Inspiring innovation and co-creating transformation of health and social care for a better tomorrow.

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Courses in Digital Health Practice

Digital Lean For Health Services (Blended Learning)

This 5-week Digital Lean for Health Services blended learning course provides hands-on experience in identifying user needs, streamlining workflows, and leveraging data to inform decisions and communicate insights effectively. Participants will apply Lean thinking to assess problems, propose digital solutions, and build compelling business cases for innovation. Ultimately, the programme empowers healthcare workers to champion practical, meaningful transformation that enhance patient and client outcomes.
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Professional Certificate in Health Service Innovation

Driving innovation initiatives requires integrated skills; to see challenges through multiple lenses and use the appropriate approaches that best meet the needs and the context of the challenge. The Professional Certificate in Health Service Innovation imparts key skills and methodologies in human-centred design, business process innovation and data analytics. Building capabilities and confidence in health and social care change-makers to identify and solve entrenched challenges.
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Professional Diploma in Health Service Transformation

For change leaders to drive transformation effectively, in addition to having a good grasp of innovation methodologies, the Professional Diploma in Health Service Transformation equips leaders with the capability to plan and drive digital transformation, and to lead agile teams in navigating the complex, uncertain and ever-changing care transformation landscape.
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Corporate Courses

Professional Certificate in Process Innovation

The Professional Certificate in Process Innovation is a project-base learning programme offered by the Digital Health Practice at NUS-ISS. The programme is designed to support those working in the health sector to build process innovation skills using Business Process Engineering to understand and employ the framework, tools and methods.

Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital Mentorship Partnership
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NUS-ISS has partnered Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital to provide mentorship support to guide Community Care Organisations in their technological adoption and process improvements under the SkillsFuture Queen Bee Mentorship Support Grant.

Deployed for the entire project duration, our dedicated mentors from the Digital Health Practice team will help determine your project requirements and key milestones. In consultation with you, they will recommend project management tools to help you fulfil your goals and achieve breakthrough outcomes, such as operational cost savings, accelerated technology adoption and optimised workflow.

Expected Outcomes

	Technological Adoption and/or Process Innovation		Skills transfer to team members
	Positive impact on workplace / productivity improvement		Completion of projects within 6 months

Community Care Organisations (CCOs) may be granted a subsidy from SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) of up to 90% for project mentorship programmes.
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Customised Training Programmes

Our training programmes can be tailored to the specific organisational requirements of your company. This offers the great benefit of allowing your co workers to apply their new skills immediately to the organisational issues you are trying to tackle, allowing better absorption of knowledge for the participants, through experiential learning, with simultaneous dynamic problem solving for the organisation.
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Research & Consulting

Applied Research

Our approach to training, consultancy and research aims to be experiential and relevant to contemporary industry needs. Our lecturers undertake industry research to expand topical knowledge and drive thought leadership. Our graduate students work on applied research projects in the health sector to tackle real industry problems and create innovative solutions. Discover with us and enjoy the benefits of new perspectives and skill sets in your organisation.

Work With Our Students
We would love to work with your health sector organisation, if you are interested in setting a project challenge for our students.

Research projects should require 6 to 8 months to complete.
As their project sponsor, your organisation will provide a kick start briefing to our students.
Students will share the project progress for your review at least once during this period.
You will be presented with project findings on its completion

Mentorship Consulting

Our mentorship based consulting services are tailored to facilitate sustainable impacts when tackling organisational challenges faced during digital health and care transformation. Our methodology includes conducting interviews with your stakeholders, partners and customers; facilitate workshops and discussions, conduct customised training on a just in time basis, perform reviews and assessments, as well as provide advice and guidance towards a successful outcome.
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Community of Practice

Digital Health Community of Practice

The Digital Health Community of Practice (CoP) is a vibrant network of practitioners across the diverse health ecosystem, united by an interest in exploring how technology, innovation and empathic design can help people experience better health and care. We support the adoption of technology in innovative and integrated ways across the health landscape, through peer to peer sharing, learning, and the promotion of collaboration across organisational and industry boundaries.

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2022

14 Oct 2022

NUS-ISS x NVPC Presents Community Matters: "Agility and Change Leadership"

06 Oct 2021

Design4Impact 2: Shining the light on Mental Health and Wellbeing

Design4Impact is an open innovation platform that brings together passionate stakeholders to co-create and test sustainable and community-owned solutions for health and social needs amplified by COVID-19. The initiative emphasises the creation of simple and feasible solutions from the outset, such that they can be realistically adapted, implemented and scaled. Design4Impact is jointly led by MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) and the National Council of Social Service (NCSS), supported by DesignSingapore Council (Dsg) and NUS-ISS.

Yishun Health has partnered NUS-ISS to digitally transform its organisational processes and equip its staff with skills to manage data and cybersecurity issues, and harness software applications to deliver healthcare in new ways to meet changing demands.

"The ability to manage data and harness digital tools helps us deliver care in a smart and efficient way. By imbuing this into the DNA of Yishun Health’s Unified Care Model, we can achieve hassle-free, value-driven care in the inpatient, outpatient and community settings for patients, customers and partners. The collaboration with NUS-ISS elevates our transformation agenda, helps us develop in-house change agents for transformation and digitalisation, and brings about new and innovative ways to deliver integrated care."
- Mrs Chew Kwee Tiang, Chief Executive Officer, Yishun Health and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital is partnering with NUS-ISS for a mentorship programme on automation and digitalisation projects for the community care sector. Further collaboration in the areas of contextualised NUS-ISS programmes (training, consulting and research) for the community care sector is being explored.

"KWSH hope to leverage on NUS-ISS’s best-in-class digital practices to deepen skills, support
expansion of job roles and improve our standard of care through healthcare innovation,
process improvement and technology adoption."
- Dr Ow Chee Chung, Chief Executive Officer, Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital

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