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Introduction to Digital Health
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:56
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VVDG_028 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 8.00 | ECTS: | 12.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Management; Public Management | Target Audience: | Health Management | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Daiga Behmane | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 17 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 34 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 31 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 62 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 96 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Data Analysis in Health Care, Health Economics, Health System Design. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide knowledge about digital health and its various elements by analyzing and evaluating commonly used digital health solutions to improve access to healthcare, efficiency and productivity. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 5.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 8 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 7.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 9 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 10 | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 11 | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 12 | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
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| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
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| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bhavnani, Sanjeev P.; Narula, Jagat; Sengupta, Partho P. (2016). "Mobile technology and the digitization of healthcare". European Heart Journal. 37 (18): 1428–38. | ||||||||
| 2 | Miedany, Yasser El. (2017). "Telehealth and telemedicine: how the digital era is changing standard health care". Smart Homecare Technology and TeleHealth. 4: 43–52. | ||||||||
| 3 | Merians, Alma S.; Jack, David; Boian, Rares; et.al. (2002). "Virtual reality--augmented rehabilitation for patients following stroke. (Case Report)". Physical Therapy. 82 (9): 898–916. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 4 | Agrawal, Raag; Prabakaran, Sudhakaran (5 March 2020). "Big data in digital healthcare: lessons learnt and recommendations for general practice". Heredity. 124 (4): 525–534. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 5 | Lupton, Deborah (2014). "Critical Perspectives on Digital Health Technologies". Sociology Compass. 8 (12): 1344–1359. | ||||||||
| 6 | WHO (2016). From innovation to implementation e-health in the WHO European region, pp. 31-39. World Health Organization (WHO, Ed.) | ||||||||
| 7 | Rivas, Homero; Wac, Katarzyna (2018). Digital Health: Scaling Healthcare to the World (Health Informatics) 1st ed. Springer. | ||||||||
| 8 | Marx, Edward, W.; Padmanabhan, Paddy (2021). Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future, 1st ed. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Widmer, R. Jay; Collins, Nerissa M.; Collins, C. Scott; et.al. (2015). "Digital Health Interventions for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 90 (4): 469–80 | ||||||||
| 2 | Amft, O. (2018). "How Wearable Computing Is Shaping Digital Health". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 17 (1): 92–98 | ||||||||
| 3 | Monaghesh, Elham; Hajizadeh, Alireza (2020). "The role of telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak: a systematic review based on current evidence". BMC Public Health. 20 (1): 1193. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Institute of Digital Healthcare – University of Warwick. | ||||||||
| 2 | ZHAW Digital Health Lab. | ||||||||
| 3 | Digital Health Center of Excellence. | ||||||||
