The Role of Digital Health and Health Data in Providing Contemporary Healthcare (ISK_231)
About Study Course
Objective
Provide insights into the wide range of Digital health tools, raise awareness of the role of health data in the provision and planning of comprehensive healthcare services, describe commonly used standards for data coding and data exchange, analyze commonly used information systems and various health registries.
Prerequisites
Not required.
Learning outcomes
- Characterize the role of health data in the health service delivery and planning process of modern healthcare;
- Describe, classify and discuss various digital health tools, describe their application in various processes in the field of health;
- Identify and classify commonly used information systems in health care, registers and explain their goals and objectives;
- Recognise, name, and provide an overview of the most commonly used data coding and exchange standards in digital health;
- Explain the challenges related to digital health data security, privacy, secondary data use, and the evolution of invocations.
- Analyse and research, discuss and debate on various digital health tools and their applications to improve healthcare processes;
- Distinguish the functionality of different information systems and registers, explain differences and the suitability of each solution for certain tasks;
- Classify different standards used in digital health, discuss their use in a particular solution;
- Assess data security and privacy challenges related to digital health, identify and justify selected risk mitigation measures.
- Recommend how to improve healthcare processes and facilitate access to services by introducing new digital health tools and approaches, as well as by improving or creating new information systems and registries;
- To study, analyse and evaluate the challenges related to the changes, related to both - data security and privacy, as well as changes in existing processes and practices;
- Evaluate, explain and justify the usable semantic and technical standards related to the changes to ensure interoperability with other systems.
Study course planning
| Study programme | Study semester | Program level | Study course category | Lecturers | Schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine, MF | 7 | Master’s | Limited choice | ||
| Medicine, SSNMF | 7 | Master’s | Limited choice |
