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University of Malaya

Digital Health Essentials

University of Malaya via FutureLearn

Overview

Dive into the concept of digital health

You’ll learn a glimpse of digital health and how healthcare professionals embrace ICT for healthcare. You’ll explore the backbone of digital health, hardware and software in building digital health systems and understand the impact of digital health in improving user experience and increasing healthcare quality.

Assess gaps and opportunities in digital health

This course guides you to a few core digital health applications that can improve healthcare delivery through digital health. You’ll then discuss the issues and challenges of the applications and their opportunities to improve healthcare outcomes.

Discover cognitive and privacy perspective in digital health

On this two-week course, you’ll learn about cognitive science and privacy from the perspective of digital health.

You’ll learn how cognitive science in digital health can offer a framework for analyzing and modelling complicated human performance. It has a wide range of applications in digital health. You’ll also discuss how ethics and privacy from a digital health perspective can protect patient information and privacy.

This course will be valuable to anyone from any discipline including healthcare professionals, information and communication technology professionals, information management professionals and who are interested in Digital health.

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Syllabus

  • Introduction to Digital Health
    • A glimpse of Digital Health
    • The Backbone of Digital Health: Hardware, Software and Network
    • Weekly Wrap Up
  • Assess Gaps and Opportunities for the improvements of Healthcare delivery through Digital Health
    • Clinical Data as basis for Digital Health Systems
    • Gaps and Opportunities in Digital Health
    • Cognitive and Privacy Perspective in Digital Health
    • Weekly Wrap Up

Taught by

Nasriah Zakaria

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