Executive Education
- Live Online Programs
- Online Programs
- In-Person Programs
- For Organizations
- Program Finder
- Portfolio Download
- Certificate
- About
- Contact
Date | ||
Sep 21–30, 2021 | $4,950 | (Live Online) |
“Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the program content is more pertinent to healthcare organizations than ever before. To adapt, we have changed our popular in-person Digital Health Strategy program to be delivered fully online. While previously designed to provide a substantive course of action for your organization in digital health technologies and techniques, we have reshaped the conversation around digital health strategy in the age of COVID-19.”
– Stan Kachnowski, Director of the Digital Health Program Series
The use of digital technologies is changing the healthcare sector at an unprecedented pace, providing innovative ways to achieve better healthcare outcomes, opportunities for lower long-term healthcare costs, and a rapidly growing digital health market poised to grow by USD 207.34 billion during 2020-2024.
Run in an unprecedented partnership of Columbia Business School Executive Education and digital health testing center HITLAB, the Digital Health Strategy: Leveraging Emerging Technologies in Healthcare program offers executives in the healthcare space unique resources for accelerating the infusion of digital health in their business.
Over the course of three days, executives develop a powerful digital health strategy for their organization, tapping into Columbia Business School’s world-renowned leadership expertise and HITLAB’s preeminent know-how of the healthcare sector.
The program demystifies the value-based components of digital health and generates a common language and framework for accelerated collaboration across the executive's organization. Participants explore a strategic roadmap for its real-world application upon their return to work, leaving with a strategic game plan that ensures sustainability across people, platforms, processes, and partnerships.
To learn more about this program, please contact Co-Director Stan Kachnowski at [email protected].
Participants explore and learn how innovative digital health solutions transforms life-science research, clinical testing and development, consumer and patient experience, and business models and operations. They also learn the necessary skills, technologies, organizational enablers, and constraints for successfully finding, verifying, and diffusing new digital health solutions.
The program highlights four key leadership processes that make transformation possible through digital health innovations, teaching participants to articulate how key emerging technologies add patient-centric value can improve organizational productivity. Those key processes entail identifying, selecting, verifying, and diffusing innovations.
After attending the program, executives will be ready to:
The program is run in partnership with digital health testing center HITLAB. In this video, faculty director Stan Kachnowski explains how participants benefit from the partnership:
Upon completion of this program, you will earn three credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.
The September 25–October 9, 2020 iteration of the Digital Health Strategy program has been approved for up to 15.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to “serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships” as stated in the AMA’s definition of CME†.
PLEASE NOTE: The upcoming iteration of the program will take place in a live, virtual setting. See the agenda. You may also view the in-person program schedule for when our in-person programming resumes.
The program uses a combination of interactive lectures, case studies, planning group exercises, and experiential learning activities that leverage New York City’s digital health ecosystem. Most importantly, participants learn — step by step — the tools of digital health strategy and apply these tools to their own organization.
Guest speakers will include current and past chief digital officers, chief medical officers, and innovation leaders across the industry. Case studies will be shared from past and current examples, and students will interact with some of the most well-respected minds in the field.
For a complete program schedule download the agenda.
Digital Health Strategy: Leveraging Emerging Technologies in Healthcare is designed for executives working in the rapidly evolving fields of life science innovation, pharmaceutical and device research, health tech investment and other related industries. This program empowers participants to understand the complex digital health landscape and to both identify and capture meaningful opportunities to generate new value for both their organizations and customers.
Columbia Business School alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for this program. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.
“It was refreshing to have a healthcare-centric program with outstanding leaders from the hospital and private sector discussing their businesses and perspectives. The networking opportunities were another benefit and I actually discussed a collaboration with one participant and met offline with another participant who also happens to be a physician. There are not many physicians that actually seek out business school and learn how to build and manage a company. Medical school does not prepare physicians to become business leaders or CEOs of a company or teach physicians how to finance an idea or take an idea to market. I am impressed with the way Columbia continues to reach out to me and keep me informed of lectures and meetings and I must say [Faculty Director] Stan Kachnowski is incredible with the way he gets on a Zoom or phone call to check-in. I am very happy with my Columbia Business School/HITLAB experience.”
“As an entrepreneur running a digital health startup company, I was worried I would have already known most of the contents prior to taking this class. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the comprehensiveness of the contents and quality of the speakers delivered in this course. The networking arrangements were also great.”
"This course helped me understand the changes happening in US healthcare and think through how they might help developing countries improve their health outcomes and achieve universal health coverage. I became more effective in identifying digital heath opportunities for the developing country clients we serve."
"The difference between being good and great often comes down to preparation and early adoption. Insights from the Digital Health Strategy program can help better prepare your organization for the fast moving tech transformation in healthcare."
“I just joined a health innovations organization. The Digital Health Strategy program was a good orientation into the health innovations market. I particularly liked the experience of interacting with other executives in the field. Appreciating their experiences has built my confidence in what I am doing. I now know what I am targeting and what might not work.”
Carri Chan
Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
Carri Chan is an associate professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, and Operations division at Columbia Business School. Her research is in the area of healthcare operations management. Her primary focus is in data-driven modeling of complex stochastic systems, efficient algorithmic design for queuing systems, dynamic control of stochastic processing systems, and statistical and econometric analysis of healthcare systems. Chan’s research combines empirical and stochastic modeling to develop evidence-based approaches to improve patient flow through hospitals. She has worked with clinicians and administrators in numerous hospital systems including Northern California Kaiser Permanente, New York Presbyterian, and Montefiore Medical Center. She spent the 2019-2020 academic year on sabbatical at the Value Institute at NY Presbyterian Hospitals. Chan is the recipient of a 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award and the 2016 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Wickham Skinner Early Career Award. She received her BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Stan Kachnowski
Professor of Health Information Management in the division of Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
Professor Stan Kachnowski, PhD MPA CSEP, an Oxford-trained researcher, has taught over 5,000 students from Columbia University, IIT-Delhi, and Quinnipiac College. His teaching and research over the past 25 years include educating graduate-level and executive students on four continents and conducting extensive studies on the efficacy and diffusion of digital health, including electronic data capture, ePRO, wearables, and predictive algorithms.
Kachnowski has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and presentations for national and international journals and societies in digital health development, management, and diffusion. He was selected as a fellow to CHIME in 1998. In 2003, he received a letter of commendation for teaching excellence from the dean of the School of Public Health at Columbia University. Professor Kachnowski was named a fellow to England’s Royal Society of Medicine for his research demonstrating the outcomes effectiveness of using the Palm Pilot in managing haemophilia patients in 2005. Professor Kachnowski has received grant funding from a wide-ranging groups of sponsors, including over a dozen nations, AARP, WHO, USAID, Gates and Dell Foundations, and most of the top 20 global life science companies. Over the past 25 years, he has also served as interim CTO for life science organizations, including Eyetech and Oncology.com. He currently serves on the board of directors for Oursmedicina, The Hudson Center for Health Equity, and Aptus Health.
Professor Kachnowski holds Bachelor's and Master’s Degrees from the University of Vermont and a Doctorate from the University of Oxford and is an alumnus of Columbia Business School's Advanced Management Program.
Along with Professors Chan and Kachnowski, additional Columbia Business School faculty contribute to and teach in the program.
Do you have questions about our live online programs? Please review our commonly asked questions on our live online programs FAQs page.