Boots Digital Health Champions

Boots and CHIME International are working together to give employees, partners and NHS staff the opportunity to work together and develop new professional skills in digital health. Together, we have designed a unique programme that will increase your professional impact, build your personal talent portfolio and open new possibilities for your career.

3 - 6 October 2022
Jubilee Hotel and Conference Centre, Nottingham

Welcome to the revolution

Digital health – defined as the use of technology, software and data to improve patient care; has the potential to transform the way we plan, deliver and improve our health and care services. As the world recovers from the Covid pandemic, there is an imperative on everyone to make health and care productive, economically viable and consumer centred. Digital health is the key to this, and the Boots and CHIME Digital Champions training will give you the new skills and tools to be a digital health leader with impact: wherever you work.

 

CHIME and Boots

CHIME is a global professional organisation for digital health leaders. Founded in 1992 it is, and always will be, a non-profit body committed to developing digital health leadership for the good of world health. It is a small, but mighty, organisation of experienced subject matter experts in digital health, health policy, consumerism, change leadership and communication.

 

The CHIME approach is simple and so effective:

1. It runs a global network of more than 5,000 digital health leaders which you will soon join on signing up for this course;

2. It teaches digital health leaders with its high-quality education, delivered in person and online and often described by alumni as ‘life changing’;

3. It accredits: CHIME believes that professional excellence deserves professional recognition and to do this it examines and accredits digital health leaders working at every stage of their career: from early entry level colleagues to C-Suite leaders. CHIME accreditation is internationally recognised, and these qualifications are held by digital health leaders working in world-leading healthcare organisations globally.

By taking this course you will:

 

Learn

Starting with an in person four-day Boot Camp, CHIME will take you through its Success Factors for digital health leaders – these are the attitudes, approach and tools you can deploy every day to be an effective and transformative leader.

The Boot Camp is taught through interactive presentations, case study exercises and application exercises by an international faculty of experienced digital health leaders, policy experts and thought leaders. The Boot Camp agenda also focuses on you: how you run your life, make decisions on priorities and manage your workload and personal commitments.

The Boot Camp learning is then consolidated by online education, delivered through CHIME virtual learning platform Ignite. Here you will continue your education with a carefully planned syllabus of resources to read and watch, tasks to complete and live online seminars with CHIME faculty. This element of the course is self-paced to allow you to combine your education with your work and home life commitments.

After completing the online modules, you will meet with your tutor to discuss your digital health project. This is a personal exploration based on your work objectives which you will develop during the course. Not only will this allow you to dive deep into an improvement project with immediate results; your final report will join the Boots Digital Champions online library – a growing canon of use case examples that will be accessed by colleagues working in digital health transformation.

Grow your network

The power of the network has never been stronger than now, and from the 1 September you will be a member of CHIME UK - joining more than a thousand digital health leaders in CHIME’s UK network. This is a subscription only site and you will receive free 12-month access as a Boots Digital Champion.

Here you will access CHIME content including: a monthly webinar, access to on-demand recordings of CHIME education and resources from world-leading journals bought on licence by CHIME.

Use this space to meet digital health leaders across the UK and beyond, ask questions, and share your dilemmas and success stories.

Receive accreditation

CHIME wants to recognise your professional experience and knowledge and on the conclusion of this course you will study for and challenge the Certified Digital Health examination at either professional or leader level: giving you the recognition of digital health leadership and starting you on your journey to further digital health qualifications such as a Master’s degree.

The exam will be taken in person in January at Boots Campus, when we invite you to meet the second cohort of Boots Digital Champions, share your project’s results and, after the exam, celebrate your progress at the Gala Dinner.

You are part of the first cohort and as well as developing your own learning, you will play an ambassadorial role to explain the benefits of this course to colleagues and stakeholders.

Meet the faculty

The Digital Health Champions Boot Camp is taught by an international faculty of digital health executives and digital health thought leaders.

  • Jane Dwelly

    CHIME Vice President International

  • Andy Kinnear

    CHIME International

  • Russ Branzell

    President and CEO CHIME

  • Tim Stettheimer

    VP Education CHIME

 

Cohort One | June 2022 to December 2022 (examination in January 2023)

  • Online
    Enrol onto Cohort One

    Receive login details for Ignite, CHIME virtual learning environment Explore Ignite Download recommended reading Network with other members of your cohort

  • Online
    Welcome to the Cohort

    90-minute seminar via Zoom to meet the CHIME faculty and spend time with your personal tutor to understand how you can prepare for the Boot Camp

  • In-person Boot Camp
    Nottingham Campus

    Join the world-renowned CHIME Boot Camp for four days of intense learning and personal growth Outside of the classroom build your network by cementing existing professional relationships and making new contacts. CHIME also organises fun social activities in the evenings plus a celebration Gala Dinner on Thursday evening. (Boot Camp runs from noon Tuesday to noon Friday)

  • Online
    Asynchronous learning and synchronous tutorials

    Consolidate your Boot Camp learning with self-paced study delivered through Ignite, and regular online tutorials to check progress and course-correct where necessary.

  • Online
    Kick off personal project

    Working with your personal tutor develop your digital project and timeline for delivery

  • Project checkpoint
    Online with tutor

  • Project checkpoint
    Online with tutor

  • Online
    Conclusion of Ignite learning and distribution of CDH revision material

    Congratulations! You have completed the online work and project Your tutor will now recommend which CDH category you should prepare for and provide relevant reference material, plus sample questions.

  • In-person
    Return to Boots Campus Nottingham

    Join Cohort Two to share your learning and personal projects. Sit for the CDH examination Attend the celebration Gala Dinner