Deakin University program

Fundamentals of Digital Health in Hospitals

Develop your skills and knowledge in successful hospital digital health implementation and adoption.

Examine digital information access, management and use in hospitals.

In this unit expand your understanding of the impact of digital health on hospital administration and build your capacity to improve hospital digital information systems and technology solutions from a non-technical perspective.

Using real examples and expert interviews we will investigate the hospital digital health landscape and assess digital technologies and solutions.

We will examine stakeholders’ concerns, approaches to support hospital digital health and implications for hospital administrators.

Courses

5 courses

Delivered by expert academics

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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

Learning outcomes

  • Apply digital health principles, concepts and theories to investigate the relevance and problems of digital health in hospital contexts.
  • Critically analyse the fundamentals of digital based hospital information systems.
  • Critically evaluate the key benefits and challenges of implementing digital health information systems, emerging technology trends and solutions in hospital contexts.
  • Examine the principles of co-design in digital based hospital information systems.

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