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Course Catalog 2012-2013
BME-2606 eHealth, 5 cr |
Additional information
e-Health focuses on the collection, management and the use of health related data, information and knowledge, and enabling health care services by using Internet technologies. Used wisely, these tools can help us deliver more effective, more efficient patient-orientated health care. The eHealth course offers students wide understanding of the current eHealth applications, available tools, and potential benefits of eHealth.
Person responsible
Ilkka Korhonen
Lessons
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Requirements
Accepted project work, seminar presentation and final exam.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Learning outcomes
The course offers students wide understanding of the current eHealth applications, available tools, and potential benefits of eHealth. After this course, student can explain the basic terminology of eHealth and understand typical eHealth architectures and know several typical eHealth applications, from telemedicine to home care and chronic disease management. Student can describe personal health record and electronic health record basics. Student can recognize central regulatory issues related to eHealth, implementation issues and typical barriers to adoption. Student can describe assessment of eHealth outcomes and benefits.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Definitions and terminology of eHealth, basic concepts. | History of eHealth. | |
| 2. | Typical eHealth applications: telemedicine, home care, chronic disease management. | mHealth. | Consumer health. |
| 3. | Electronic patient record and personal health record. | eHealth interoperability and standards. | |
| 4. | eHealth benefits and outcome assessment. | Current evidence base for eHealth benefits. | eHealth outcome assessement study design. |
| 5. | Implementation issues of eHealth, barriers for adoption. | Safety, privacy and regulations. |
Evaluation criteria for the course
The final grade of the course is determined based on the assessment of all part of the course. The weighting factor of each part is given at the beginning of the course. Grades 1-2: Learning outcomes have been achieved. Satisfactory command in core content of the course. Grades 3-4: Some learning outcomes have been exceeded qualitatively or quantitatively. Good command in core content and complementary knowledge of the course. Good or very good marks from all parts of the course. Grade 5: Most of the learning outcomes have been exceeded. Deep command in the whole content of the course. Almost maximum performance in all parts of the course.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Lecture slides | English |
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Correspondence of content
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Note: BME-2610 can be replaced by SGN-57206 but not vice versa |
More precise information per implementation
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Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 % |