Course Catalog 2012-2013
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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

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
Assignment
 4 h/week
 1 h/week
 30 h/per



 



 



 



 
BME-2606 2012-01 Thursday 8 - 10, HB111
Friday 10 - 12, HB111

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:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Lecture slides                English  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
BME-2606 eHealth, 5 cr LTT-4056 Introduction to Telemedicine, 3 cr  
BME-2606 eHealth, 5 cr SGN-57006 Health Care Processes and Systems, 3 cr Note: BME-2610 can be replaced by SGN-57206 but not vice versa  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
BME-2606 2012-01       Contact teaching: 0 %
Distance learning: 0 %
Self-directed learning: 0 %  

Last modified07.03.2012