Code
CLS5009-B
Credits
20
Graduate Attributes
Syllabus
Digital Health - meaning & importance; NHS digital transformation; Applications & technologies of digital health - devices and wearables, informatics, health systems, research and evaluation, cybermedicine; Challenges - privacy, data governance/handling and intellectual property; The digital
divide - health and digital literacy; Ethics; Marketing - segmentation and value analysis, branding, sales regulations; Budgets - costing approaches.
Lecture
22
Workshop
28
Private Study
150
Unit Learning Outcomes
- 1 Appreciate the potential for digital health applications to impact healthcare.
- 2 Research, design, develop and critically appraise an innovative digital health solution, based upon information available within the literature and other relevant sources.
- 3 Develop and present a competitive strategy for the implementation of a digital health solution aspart of a team.
- 4 Develop enterprise and commercialization skills, including pitching for funding and developingresearch proposal for funding
Course Learning Outcomes
- 16 Develop and evaluate personal and professional skills including effective oral and written presentation, problem-solving, decision making and team-working skills.
- 17 Research, review and critically analyse science and health-related literature and experimental data using independent learning skills.
- 19 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the underlying principles relating to global and digital heath.
- 20 Understand the application of current, future, and emerging technologies in healthcare and scientific research.
Assessment Breakdown
Health care is changing fast. 10 years ago the provision of healthcare was mostly managed via paper-based systems with some digitization of patient records using a range of bespoke and commercial softwares. Over the past decade the use of IT has steadily increased and there is a growing appreciation that It could be used to enhance healthcare. In 2020 the adoption of IT based systems became very much an immediate priority. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic made it more difficult for patients to access healthcare and this functioned as a catalyst for innovation of new digital technologies to enable the remote monitoring and care of healthcare users. The push towards digital healthcare has created tremendous opportunities and a huge growth in the digital healthcare related industries particularly in the Bradford/Leeds region.
This course will focus on what is now referred to as Digital Medicine, a discipline that encompasses aspects associated with the development of interoperable digitised patient management and healthcare management systems along with the development of new medical devices. The module will cover the 10 NHS Year plan, Integrated care system, hospital management systems, the concept of a hospital command centre, virtual wards, the patient's digital journey, the prescription journey, the different types of medical devices, production of healthcare tools, data protection and governance, cyber medicine, the importance of interdisciplinary research, product development, patenting, NHS and research, grant writing, clinical trials, ethics, ethical approval, data capture and analysis, and marketing.