Health in Smart Cities

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Free Online Course: Health in Smart Cities provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4 weeks long, 4-5 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Health in Smart Cities is taught by Giandomenico Nollo, Elisa Morganti, Emanuele Torri, Daniele Fontanelli, Giuseppe Conti, Luca Faes, Luca Mion, Ilaria Simonelli, Mariolino De Cecco, Simona Anzivino, Nicola Pace, Matteo Zanetti, Maurizio Caon, Claudio Eccher, Ettore Turra and Nicola Conci.

Overview
  • Smart Cities have enormous potential to improve the quality of life and assure access to healthcare services to an increasingly demanding population.

    Technologies are continuously improving and becoming more and more pervasive to better handle patients and their care.

    But innovative technology is not enough. New technology needs to be part of an innovative process that helps form partnerships between patients and professionals, public and private sectors and research and application.

    In this course, our team of instructors and content experts will address the fundamental concepts of a smart, healthy city and how to cope with continuous innovation, healthcare services, and citizens’ expectations. Our experts provide a vision for managing the complexity of smart health, and making ehealth work for a smart city.