Free Digital Health Course for Rural and Remote Healthcare Workforce

Posted Monday 20 May 2024 | James Cook University

Delivering health services to people living in rural and remote areas is challenging due to the geographic dispersion, high burden of illness, limited infrastructure, and higher costs of delivering rural and remote health care. Digital technologies offer an opportunity to assist in delivering rural and remote health care. A digitally capable rural health workforce can leverage these opportunities to transform how health care is delivered to rural and remote patients, how data is accessed and used, and how decisions about health are made.

JCU has partnered with DESE, CSIRO, Optus, CRCNA, NQPHN, and other digital health proponents to promote a focus on digital health technologies, workforce capabilities and digital transformation in rural and remote areas through the Northern Australian Regional Digital Health Collaborative (NARDHC). Digital Health for the Rural and Remote Health Workforce Micro-credential is a fully online, flexible set of modules that explore and equip health and allied health practitioners with the “what”, “when”, and “how” of using digital health to augment and support healthcare delivery in rural and remote areas.

Whatever your digital health training needs, refreshing your digital health knowledge, or equipping yourself with knowledge about emerging digital health technologies, the Digital Health for Rural and Remote Health Workforce Micro credential will help.