Technologies for Hospital Digital Health
Explore infrastructure and the benefits and challenges of emerging technologies in hospital contexts.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
10 hours
Technologies for Hospital Digital Health
Hospital administration matters
This Deakin University course is a pathway towards a career as a hospital administrator and making a difference to both patients and healthcare professionals.
In this course, you will work towards developing the skills needed for various hospital administrative roles like hospital manager, director or officer.
You will explore essential theories, processes and techniques for hospital administration and management and cover a range of topics to consolidate your knowledge.
What topics will you cover?
Infrastructure for digital health
Explore soft and hard infrastructure for digital health.
Emerging technologies
Evaluate emerging technologies from different stakeholder perspectives.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify the key aspects of soft and hard infrastructure for digital health.
- Investigate the benefits and challenges of emerging technologies from clinician, administration and consumer perspectives.
Who is the course for?
Deakin University microcredential students.
Who will you learn with?
A/Prof Paul Cooper specialises in health informatics in the School of Medicine at Deakin University. His goal is to help students learn how to make the most effective use of digital health
Lecturer, School of Medicine, Deakin University. Imran's research interests range from information systems, Health information systems to Electronic health records and he is a widely published scholar
Who developed the course?
Deakin University
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
Established
1974Location
Melbourne, AustraliaWorld ranking
Top 280Source: QS World University Rankings 2021
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