Co-Design of Digital Health Innovations, 7.5 hp


Kursnummer1
År2024
TypSubjectcourse
Spår
Max antal deltagare0
Sista ansökningsdag2024-05-15
SpråkEn
KursansvarigSara Riggare
InstitutionDepartment of Women's and Children's Health
Besöksadress
Postadress
Datum2024-06-03 - 2024-06-28 + 2024-08-05 - 2024-08-18
LokalOnline
Kurslängd
Kursrapport 
Kursplan 

 

Beskrivning

The course is given in English and completely online, with a high degree of self-guided learning. Large parts of the course will be suited for asynchronous work with approximately one mandatory session (in real-time) per course week. The course runs half-time (20 h/week) 3rd - 30th June, with a break in the scheduled teaching 1st July – 4th August, to resume again with half-time asynchronous teaching/learning activities 5th -16th August.

Inlärningsmål

The course aims at providing in-depth knowledge about digital health innovation based on the needs of patients, family caregivers and healthcare professionals. Interdisciplinary teams of course participants will, in association with stakeholders, identify needs-based problems and in dialogue with target groups (public and patient involvement, PPI) develop solutions for identified problems. Feedback on process and proposed solutions are given by teachers and mentors, course participants (peer learning) and the potential end-users.

The starting point will be concrete and real needs of patients, informal caregivers, and healthcare professionals. Interdisciplinary teams of course participants will, in association with stakeholders, identify needs-based problems and in dialogue with target groups (public and patient involvement, PPI) develop solutions for identified problems. Feedback on process and proposed solutions are given by teachers and mentors, course participants (peer learning) and the potential end-users.

After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- Identify problems and challenges with relevant to health and care based on existing settings in, for example, the public and private sector.
- Plan, implement and apply methodology for an innovation project with a user focus and within given timeframes, with a focus om digital health.
- Understand the importance of and utilize the knowledge and experience of interdisciplinary groups in developing creative innovation projects
Describe opportunities and challenges of patient-driven innovation.
- Compile, use and critically interpret relevant information for the innovation project.
- Give oral and written presentations adapted to different kinds of target groups.
- Give constructive feedback to oral and written presentations given by other course participants.

Innehåll

With the citizen's needs in focus and gained knowledge about digital health i, the course participants identify, plan, carries through and evaluate a relevant health innovation project. As support for the work, theory and practical introduction about methods on how to co-create with the intended user of the innovation solution are provided. Theoretical discussions are combined with practical work on how to energize creativity in innovative processes and how project groups can enable productive collaboration. Ideas are tested through meetings with needs-providers, mentors from innovation support organisations and the final solutions is presented to a panel of evaluators and end-users.

Undervisning

Lectures, seminars, project work in teams. Teaching is online and in English. Approximately one seminar/lecture per week with mandatory (online) participation.

Examination

Active participation in mandatory assignments and completion of a project according to instructions ( 4 credits). Oral and written reports ( 3.5 credits). If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Lärare

Sara Riggare, Maria Hägglund

Kontakt

sara.riggare@kbh.uu.se

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