ORI3200 Digital Competence and Innovation in Health Course description

The course emphasizes subject-specific digital competence for health education. Society, health services, and education are undergoing extensive digital transformation, which demands individual competence and impacts service organization. For technology to contribute to effective and cohesive health services, current and future healthcare personnel must engage with and utilize digital tools and media safely, critically, and creatively. Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, challenge traditional methods of performing tasks and organizing services, thus closely linked to service innovation.

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence: 

Knowledge

The student can:

• explain digital competence and innovation processes in healthcare, as well as how technological solutions can affect service delivery

Skills

The student can:

• contribute to the idea development of service innovation based on health technology or assistive technology, and plan for active user involvement

General Competence

The student can:

• reflect on potential benefits and challenges, including ethical dilemmas, of implementing health technology and assistive technology in health services
• reflect on responsible use of artificial intelligence in learning and service delivery
• reflect on the importance of interprofessional collaboration in idea development within health technology or assistive technology

Lectures, group work, seminars, and self-study. The students will work on a group-based project assignment throughout the course, which includes health technology or assistive technology. Feedback from the course instructor and fellow students.

None.

Oral exam in groups of 3-7 students, up to 30 minutes.

All aids are permitted.

Pass - Fail

All answers are assessed by two examiners. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. If selecting answers for external evaluation, the external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

In this course, the student will learn about nursing for patients with chronic diseases, loss of function after injury or disease, intellectual disabilities and other complex diseases. The students will encounter patients in their own homes or in residential care homes. They will gain experience of communicating and interacting with patients and next-of-kin. Challenges related to key patient phenomena, functional impairment, mastery, dignity and user participation will be central aspects of the course. Different perspectives on nursing in a care and rehabilitation context are analysed with the home as the arena, at the intersection between paternalism and autonomy, as well as different cultural values. Interprofessional and intersectoral cooperation and service development and innovation are also included in the course. You will complete 7 weeks of practical training in this course.