IN4380 – Digital Transformation of Healthcare
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
Digital Transformation of Healthcare?aims to develop students’ understanding of digital health in a global context and with a key focus on Norway. After completing the course, students are able to identify key institutional, organizational, and (inter)personal challenges and opportunities related to digitalization of the health sector.
The course is organized around four themes; foundational concepts of digital health, the institutional context for change, trends and emerging technologies in healthcare, and change processes in digitalizing healthcare services. Across all three themes, students are presented with empirical examples from recent and ongoing research projects. Examples of topics included in the course syllabus are: Electronic Health Records and digital health infrastructures, eHealth and telemedicine, Artificial Intelligence and health data analytics, designing digital health interventions, and the digital change agent.
Learning outcome
After completing the course, you
- Have an understanding of how digital technologies are used in the health sector.
- Have an understanding of digitalization in the health sector, its potential and challenges.
- Have an understanding of the importance of the sociotechnical context of health sector digitalization.
- Can discuss contemporary trends in healthcare and their implications for digitalization of the health sector on both national and global levels.
- Have knowledge of the legal and ethical aspects of digitalization of the health sector.
- Have experience working in interdisciplinary teams
Admission to the course
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for?in Studentweb.
Capacity limit: 40
If the number of enrolled students is higher than 40, they will be ranked as follows:
- Master students in the Digitalization in the Health Sector program
- Master students at the Department of Informatics who has the course approved in their study plan
- Others
Recommended previous knowledge
IN5210 – Information Systems and DIGHEL4360 – Information Technology in Health Services or DIGHEL4350 – Health Services and Information needs.
The course builds on the foundational concepts from Information Systems (IS) theory and presupposes a sociotechnical understanding of the interplay between technology and people in the organizational and institutional context of healthcare. A basic understanding of health services is also expected. It is possible to take the course without having completed the recommended previous courses but with an expectation of self-study of the basic concepts and theories of IS and/or healthcare.
Overlapping courses
- 5 credits overlap with ITEVU4430 – Ansvarlig digitalisering av helsesektoren.
Teaching
- 2 hours of lectures per week.
- 2 hours of seminars with discussion and group work per week.
The following mandatory activities are:
- Attending the first lecture
- Mandatory assignments. The mandatory assignments will be group-based exercises that will test the students’ abilities to apply theoretical concepts and models to empirical cases. The assignments are closely linked to the weekly seminars.
Examination
Written home exam.
The mandatory assignments must be approved prior to the exam.
Examination support material
All
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about?the grading system.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.