Digital Care Foundations
Presented by Adrienne Nova, Erika del Pozo, Garth Savidge, and Zoe Faselt
This is the first course in a three-course series designed to help clinicians navigate today’s evolving care landscape. It aims to enhance clinical practice with digital tools and frameworks that support digital and hybrid care models. The course defines digital health and care, identifies key clinician roles, addresses common concerns about digital care, and describes foundational standards of practice, ethical considerations, and safety principles in digital care delivery. Ultimately, it seeks to build clinicians’ confidence, upskill them in digital care, and help them realize their professional value.
Learning Objectives
- Define digital health and digital care, identifying a variety of digital care tools and frameworks for digital care models
- Identify key clinician roles involved in digital care, including hybrid care clinicians, virtual clinicians, and digital care coordinators
- Recognize common clinician concerns about digital care while exploring strategies to build confidence, upskill, and realize professional value
- Describe foundational standards of practice, ethical considerations, and safety principles in digital care delivery
Meet your instructors
Adrienne Nova
Adrienne currently leads and manages the Content Development Team, overseeing continuing education preproduction as well as Medbridge’s library of compliance courses. She has a long history with Medbridge, serving as a clinical consultant and Aide Skills instructor since 2012, prior to coming on board full time in 2022.…
Erika del Pozo
Erika del Pozo holds a BA in dance and a master’s degree in occupational therapy from Nova Southeastern University. Erika has practiced in outpatient pediatrics for five years and also has experience working with older adults with progressive neurological conditions. Erika served as an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern…
Garth Savidge
Garth Savidge is an accomplished and energetic leader, with over 20 years of clinical and operational leadership experience in rehabilitation and MSK/spine/orthopedics in the Mass General Brigham healthcare system. He is passionate about innovating and transforming care delivery to enhance value, access, quality, and…
Zoe Faselt
Zoe Faselt focuses on creating high-quality, accessible compliance content for Medbridge’s Education platform. She ensures that providers have access to evidence-based, up-to-date compliance information that is easily digestible and trustworthy. She graduated with a dual bachelor’s degree in English and Human Physiology from…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Digital Care Foundations: The What and the Why
This chapter defines digital health and care, explores why it is accelerating, and highlights its benefits for both clinicians and patients while dispelling common myths about digital tools replacing clinicians.
2. Digital Care Foundations: The Who and the How
This chapter details the spectrum of digital and hybrid care models, explains key clinical roles, and provides examples of hybrid care workflows and supporting digital tools.
3. Digital Care Foundations: Essentials for Practice
The final chapter of this course outlines the standards of practice, ethical considerations, and safety principles essential for delivering digital care effectively and compliantly.
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