Digital Health Essentials
Discover digital health and learn how digital health improves efficiency, reduces medical errors, and improves health outcomes.
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Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
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How it works
Digital Health Essentials
Dive into the concept of digital health
You’ll learn a glimpse of digital health and how healthcare professionals embrace ICT for healthcare. You’ll explore the backbone of digital health, hardware and software in building digital health systems and understand the impact of digital health in improving user experience and increasing healthcare quality.
Assess gaps and opportunities in digital health
This course guides you to a few core digital health applications that can improve healthcare delivery through digital health. You’ll then discuss the issues and challenges of the applications and their opportunities to improve healthcare outcomes.
Discover cognitive and privacy perspective in digital health
On this two-week course, you’ll learn about cognitive science and privacy from the perspective of digital health.
You’ll learn how cognitive science in digital health can offer a framework for analyzing and modelling complicated human performance. It has a wide range of applications in digital health. You’ll also discuss how ethics and privacy from a digital health perspective can protect patient information and privacy.
Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction to Digital Health
A glimpse of Digital Health
Health is at the tip of your fingers! Consumers can seek health information, connect with health providers and make transactions using the computer.
The Backbone of Digital Health: Hardware, Software and Network
What is coming up in Digital Health?
Weekly Wrap Up
In Week 1, we would like to know how much learners can appreciate the Digital Health revolution.
Week 2
Assess Gaps and Opportunities for the improvements of Healthcare delivery through Digital Health
Clinical Data as basis for Digital Health Systems
The first section establishes the information and knowledge of clinical data. Clinical data and documentation are the basis of any Digital Health systems.
Gaps and Opportunities in Digital Health
Learners will be exposed to the Paper-based health record and how the idea of transformation to Electronic Health Records occurs. Learners will learn about the functional part of EHR followed by data capturing aspects.
Cognitive and Privacy Perspective in Digital Health
Every system that is created need the consideration of cognitive and privacy perspective.
Weekly Wrap Up
Summary of Week 2
When would you like to start?
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explain terminology and basic principles in Digital Health
- Assess the gaps and challenges in improving healthcare services using Digital Health
- Apply the basic principles of data, information and knowledge in various applications of Digital Health
Who is the course for?
This course will be valuable to anyone from any discipline including healthcare professionals, information and communication technology professionals, information management professionals and who are interested in Digital health.
What software or tools do you need?
None
Who will you learn with?
Passionate in technology & healthcare
Family Medicine Specialist and Digital Health enthusiast.
Who developed the course?
Universiti Malaya
Universiti Malaya is the premier research university in Malaysia, committed to advancing knowledge and learning through quality research and education for the nation and for humanity.
Established
1905Location
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaWorld ranking
Top 60Source: QS World University Rankings 2021
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Ways to learn
Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$244.99 for one whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$109/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Limited access
Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 24 May 2024
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- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
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- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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