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Graduate Certificate in Digital Health Module 1: Conceptualising Smart Healthcare Solutions

  • Analytics & Tech
  • Healthcare
Next Intake: 14 Jul 2025 (Mon)
  • Basic
  • SkillsFuture
  • Short Courses
  • This module is part of Graduate Certificate in Digital Health
Next course starts on
14 Jul 2025 (Mon) See Full Schedule
Fee
SGD3,270* (as low as SGD381 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

3 days

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

All experienced professionals who are involved with or have an interest in providing better healthcare services through enhanced knowledge and implementation of Digital Health initiatives.

 

Pre-requisites

Participants should have:

  • a degree from a recognised university; and
  • minimum 2 years working experience in healthcare or healthcare related sector

Overview

Rapidly aging population, rise and early onset of chronic diseases, changing lifestyle habits as well as a perennial shortage of healthcare professionals necessitate the use and creation of new digital technology care delivery models. However, deploying technology at scale into the healthcare setting is often complex in endeavour due to the nuanced nature of the industry. This module’s learnings provide foundational anchor points for participant’s future journeys in digital health.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this module, participants will be able to:

  • acquire an understanding of the changing healthcare landscape and ecosystem around the world.
  • develop an appreciation of the digital innovations that are disrupting global healthcare.
  • conceptualise a smart healthcare solution to solve a relevant healthcare problem.

Assessment

Participants have to meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and have to complete all assessment(s) required by the course. Only upon meeting the minimum attendance and passing the assessment will participants be issued a Certificate of Completion.

Participants who fail the assessment will be given a chance for re-assessment at a fee of SGD100.00 (excluding prevailing GST). Each participant is allowed 1 re-assessment. The re-assessment has to be taken within 7 calendar days from the end of the course date.  It will be held on a weekday specified by SMU Academy and conducted during office hours. Please note that re-assessment fees are not supported by SSG Funding.

Participants who meet the minimum attendance rate but do not achieve a pass for the assessment will be issued a Certificate of Participation.

Participants are required to bring their laptop to access the course materials, class exercises and individual assessment(s). 

In order to be awarded with the Graduate Certificate in Digital Health, participants are required to complete modules 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 within 3 years. To obtain the Certified Healthcare Analytical Professional, participants are required to complete modules 2 and 3 within 3 years.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$981

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$381

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$981

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$381

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$381

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$381

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$3,270

(No Funding)

$3,270

(No Funding)

$3,270

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

Dr Tan Hwee Pink
Consultant, Data Change Management, IoT and Smart Healthcare
Health Promotion Board
Dr Tan Hwee Pink
Consultant, Data Change Management, IoT and Smart Healthcare
Health Promotion Board

Hwee Pink has been Affiliate Faculty with the SMU Academy since 2019, where he helms the instruction of modules related to IoT Technology and Applications and Smart Healthcare. Since April 2024, he has also taken on the role of freelance consultant in Data Change Management for the Health Promotion Board (HPB).

Between 2022 and 2023, as HPB’s inaugural Chief Data Officer, Hwee Pink led a newly set-up office to advance the data-driven, evidence-based and citizen-centric approach to health promotion through state-of-the-art data best practices to maximize data quality and internationally recognised governance and policies to promote safe usage of data. He joined HPB as Director, Research Collaboration and Analytics in January 2021, where he led a new division to maximize the value of data and strengthen data-related capabilities to realize precision public health through strategic collaborations, data partnerships and advanced analytics.

Prior to joining HPB, he spent close to 6 years at SMU’s School of Information Systems (SIS) as Associate Professor of Information Systems (Practice) as well as Academic Director of the SMU-TCS iCity lab. He led a team of technology and social science researchers to bring together Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, and social-behavioural research to enable and sustain ageing-in-place, in close partnership with A*STAR, TCS, various government agencies, regional health systems as well as Social Service Agencies. He also helmed the instruction of the IoT and Smart Healthcare modules within SIS and is also an adjunct faculty with the Geriatric Education and Research Institute (GERI) in Singapore.

Before SMU, he spent 7 years at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, where he was a Senior Scientist and the SERC Programme Manager for the A*STAR Sense and Sense-abilities Program. He led a team of 30 research scientists and engineers to design, pilot and evaluate architectures to support large scale and heterogeneous sensor systems to enable Smart City applications. He was awarded the I2R Role Model Award in 2012 and 2013, and the A*STAR Most Inspiring Mentor award, TALENT and Borderless Award in 2014.

He graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel in August 2004 with a Ph.D. In December 2004, he was awarded the A*STAR International Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology and Trinity College Dublin on the design and evaluation of wireless networks.

Additional Details

Programme Registration

Registrants are required to submit the following supporting documents via the registration system at the point of registration:

  1. Degree certificate (scanned copy); and
  2. Updated Curriculum Vitae detailing working experience in healthcare or healthcare related sector; 
  3. Any other supporting documents e.g. company's recommendation letter

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​Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM)

This programme is part of Certified Professional Business Manager. Participants who successfully complete 6 courses/modules with a minimum of 15 training days, from a list of qualifying programmes (terms and conditions apply) within 5 years will receive the Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM). For example:

Please click here for CPBM details and list of qualifying programmes.

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