| CODE | HSC1000 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Digital Health for Health Professionals | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Health Sciences | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit consists of a series of interactive lectures and discussions aimed at introducing digital health as a pivotal concept in the development of their profession, in recognising the use of specific technologies that may assist them with their clinical reasoning, in enabling them to facilitate the use digital health technologies by their patients and the general public. The study-unit will involve a student-led presentation and a project. This study-unit is designed to cater for the undergraduate needs of the health care professions at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to introduce digital health to undergraduate students of health studies and enable them to recognise technologies that may help them enhance health care provided to their patients. It would assist students to introduce strategies that may help the uptake of digital health technologies by the general public and infuse the students with the need for further research in digital health in their professions. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Define "Digital Health"; - Provide examples of digital health interventions and classify them according to Health System Challenge (HSC) and System Category; - Demonstrate ways how the digital transformation of healthcare changes the way one practices healthcare; - Discuss the role of "e-patient" in the evolving health ecosystem; - Describe how disruptive technologies such as 3D Printing, Drones, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence may change healthcare; - Describe the influence of motivators and enablers for digital health innovations; and - Discuss the challenges associated with digital health in the health professions. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Use evidence-informed digital health interventions to support his/her daily practice; - Communicate the benefits of digital health interventions to a multi-disciplinary audience; - Seek the right resources to stay updated with the latest technology trends; - Gain problem-solving skills to understand how they can solve current healthcare challenges with practical solutions involving digital health solutions; and - Gain proposal writing and presentation skills to present solutions to a wide audience of stakeholders. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Rivas, H. and Wac, K. (2018). Digital Health: Scaling Healthcare to the World (Health Informatics). 1st ed. Springer. - World Health Organization. (2019). WHO Guideline: recommendations on digital interventions for health system strengthening. [online] Available at: https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/digital-interventions-health-system-strengthening/en/ [Accessed 14 Oct. 2019]. Supplementary Readings: - Sonnier, P. (2017). The fourth wave: Digital health - a new era of human progress. 1st ed. - Wachter, R. (2015). The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age. 1st ed. McGraw-Hill Education. - Topol, E. (2019). Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books. - Topol, E. (2016). The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands. 1st ed. New York, N.Y: Basic Books. - Topol, E. (2011). The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books. - Christensen, C., Grossman, J. and Hwang, J. (2008). The innovator's prescription. 1st ed. McGraw-Hill Education. - Engelen, L. (2018). Augmented Health(care)™: "the end of the beginning". 1st ed. Lucien Engelen Holding BV. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Group Learning, Ind. Study, Lect, Onl Learn & Semi | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Stefan Buttigieg |
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