Course Title: Digital Health Service Delivery

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Digital Health Service Delivery

Credit Points: 12.00

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
MEDS2199	City Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Internet	JanJun2022 (All)
MEDS2199	City Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Internet	JanJun2023 (All)
MEDS2199	City Campus	Postgraduate	173H School of Health and Biomed	Internet	JanJun2024 (All)

Course Coordinator: Dr. Mary Lam

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: mary.lam@rmit.edu.au

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

Course Description

Health services are and will increasingly be delivered differently in digital societies, including through different channels such as virtual care and are using a far wider range of data, information and knowledge to inform practice. Digital Health Service Delivery takes a practical view on how clinicians – doctors, nurses, allied and complementary health professionals – embed digital health into patient engagement and the delivery of healthcare in different settings and for different communities. You will appraise factors associated with safe and effective digital health delivery, including related ethical, cultural and socio-technical issues.

Topics include investigating the explosion in consumer health technologies and it’s the associated implications for healthcare, examining the capabilities required for clinicians and organisations to effectively and safely deliver care in digitally enabled settings, and formulating a view of the future of health and healthcare.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for GC191 Graduate Certificate in Digital Health:

• PLO 2 - Evaluate the importance of data, information and knowledge management in digital health and the implications for effective governance in both health service delivery and citizens’ rights.
• PLO 3 - Analyse contextual considerations, including regulation, policies and standards, socio-economic, socio-technical and cultural sensitivities, funding, workforce and other capabilities, to the provision of digital health services.

On successful completion of this course you should be able to:

1. Analyse the implications of digital health for clinical practice, prioritising patient, consumer and citizen experiences to support culturally appropriate healthcare.
2. Determine the key ethical, cultural and socio-economic factors in the use of digital health business models, service delivery modes and technologies.
3. Critically analyse the use and integration of consumer health technologies and develop principles for effective use of these technologies in healthcare practice.
4. Recommend the skills and capabilities required for clinicians and organisations to effectively and safely deliver healthcare in digitally-enabled settings.

Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Comparative Health infographic and rationale
Weighting 30%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2 & 3

Assessment Task 2: Consumer health technology report
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports CLOs 2, 3 & 4

Assessment Task 3: 5-year Capability Roadmap
Weighting 30%
This assessment task supports CLOs 3 & 4

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.