YH-3-049 (0) - DeDiWe - The digital environment in health and welfare services and its ethics and regulations

3 (2019-01-01 to 2019-03-17)

English

Optional

First

3

5 cr

The aim in the study unit is to;
-understand basic health and social care
informatics
-understand basic methods of technical
informatics/computer science,
-understand and apply principles of evidence-
based practice and evidence-based clinical
pathways
-understand and apply legal knowledge of
confidentiality, IT-security and patient data
privacy and protection

At the end of the course the student is expected
to be able to
- understand and explain the partnership
countries
health and welfare environment and especially
from
the digitalisation’s perspective and
know principles of evidence-based practice and
evidence based clinical pathways in eHealth and
eWelfare
- enable digitalisation through the
understanding
of underlying technical aspects. Understand the
digital environ- ment and ways to navigate
in it. Find ways to conceptualize and focus on
eHealth and eWelfare services in relation to the
specific needs of the customer
-understand ethical theories , safe procedures
principles and laws affecting eHealth and
eWelfare as
the privacy of the customer. Have
skills to practice ethically high quality
customer
work taking responsibility for the safety and
integrity of the client
-know basic elements of structural data,
intelligent services and decision support
systems.
Know the system and can apply output in decision
making and in facing the challenges the
digitalization might bring

The Developer of Digital Health and Welfare
Services
studies (30 credits) are combined from three
study units (15cr) and with possibility to add
the thesis process (15cr). It starts with the
unit where the main content is the citizen as
customer in digital health and welfare services
and how professionals are communicating in a
digital environment. Then comes the study unit
about digital health and welfare
environment’s with ethics and regulation in
healthcare. At last comes the service design
study unit, that will increase participant’s
competences about customer oriented user centered
service design and co-creation process.

This study unit deals with health informatics
and the general process of digitalization in
health and welfare and the laws and regulations
surrounding it.

The course is taking place on the platform Slack.
Enrolled students will get information on how to
sign in to the platform before the start of course.

The literature
1)Delan D, Demirkan H. 2013 Data, information and
analytics as services; 55, 359-363
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ External link
S221
1883713000853#aff0005
2)Lederman R, Hanmei F, Smith S, Chang S.2014.
Who
can you trust? Credibility assessment in online
health forums.Health Policy and Technolog, 3,13–
25
https://www.google.ee/webhp?sourceid=chrome External link-
instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-
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2014
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Additional reading;
The EU legal framework on e-health
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/00 External link
08/1
38185/E94886_ch13.pdf?ua=1
E-health; ethical and data privacy challenges in
the
EU
fhttps://www.cov.com/~/media/files/corporate/publ External link
icat
ions/2011/04/e-health---ethical-and-data-privacy-
challenges-in-the-eu.pdf
Overview of the national laws on electronic
health
records in the EU Member States and their
interaction
with the provision of cross-border eHealth
services
Final
report and recommendations
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/docs/laws_repo External link
rt_r
ecommendations_en.pdf
Ashly D. Black1 , Josip Car1 , Claudia Pagliari2
,
Chantelle Anandan2 , Kathrin Cresswell2 ,
Tomislav
Bokun1 , Brian McKinstry2 , Rob Procter3 , Azeem
Majeed4 ,
Aziz Sheikh2 . 2011.
The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety
of
Health Care: A Systematic Overview . PLOS
medicine
Published: January 18, 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387 External link
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article External link?
id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387

Internet-based studies - 135 hours

• Total workload of the course: 135 hours
• Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
• Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Multiform education

Essays, reports, productions and portfolio

To pass the course the student should pass the
weekly assignments (as tests, demonstrations and
presentations, reports and produktions, essays,
and also presence at specified occasions) and
turn in and pass the learning journal for the
course.

• Ekman Petra
• Tana Jonas
• Westerlund Magnus

Ekman Petra

Slack, all enrolled will get a sign up information

No limit (12 students enrolled)

Until further notice

active SU weeks 3-11
dates of the Slackinars
17.1 # digital services
7.2 #laws and regulations
14.2 #standardize language and documentation
28.2 #pathways
7.3 #conclusion

2018-10-12 to 2019-01-04

Date will be announced later - Reports and productions