Digital Health Applications

2 or 4 Credits · Level: Graduate

You have a special talent. That is why you are in this Master’s program. You also have a burning idea ... ... the next big digital health app that is going to change medicine. “But I don’t have the time or money or know where to start,” you might tell yourself. This elective is designed to give you a roadmap to go from idea to concept validation to prototype. Along the way exposing you to technical aspects of development and interoperability such as FHIR and insight into how to formulate a digital health app business plan and pitch to investors. Kevin Maloy, MD is the unicorn doctor-coder who straddles the line between in the trenches clinical medicine and writing code. He is famous for taking ideas from back of the napkin drawings to enterprise deployment at a large hospital system while seeing patients there. He is one of the most approachable, down to earth, honest doctors with an IT background. He is much more interested in building apps as opposed to attending meetings. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and a certified Physician Builder in Epic. He has extensive full stack developer skills including Oracle, MS SQL, php, and nodejs.