Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The Student is able to
- understand basic health and social care informatics
- understand basic methods of technical informatics/computer science
- understand and apply principles of evidence-based practice and evidence based clinical pathways
- understand and apply legal knowledge of confidentiality, IT-security and patient data privacy and protection

Content

This study unit deals with health informatics and the general process of digitalization in health and welfare and the laws and regulations surrounding it. Partnership countries health and welfare environment, health and welfare informatics environment ex. Kanta services, Estonian X-RoadHow to store data, share data, refine data different databases. Ethics, laws and regulations and customer safety data privacy and security. Structural data, health and social classifications, the basic elements of support of decision making systems.

Teaching methods

The studies take place at the e?learning and communication platform called Slack, combined with cross?border co?creation and cooperation. The partners in Estonia, Latvia and Finland arrange a study unit. After you have enrolled in to study unit, you will get guidelines how to go in to the Slack.
The are slackinars as chat based discussion with teachers and other students during the serten time. There are multidiciplinary groups of student´s who are working in Slack environment between slackinars and solving problems together. This Study unit is Part of Developer of Digital of Health and Welfare Service Course (DeDiWe) as unit 2.
Study Unit 1. The citizens as customers of digital health and welfare services
Study Unit 2. The digital environment in health and welfare services and its ethics and regulations
Study Unit 3. Digital service development and information management in health and welfare
services This 3th Study unit will take place in April and it will be intensive week to Riga.

Location and time

The Study unit is virtual and working space is in Slack environment
The Slackinars are in Spring 2019 as follwing days between 13 - 15
17.1 # digital services
7.2 #laws and regulations
14.2 #standardize language and documentation
28.2 #pathways
7.3# conclusion

Learning materials and recommended literature

Literature:
Delan D, Demirkan H. 2013 Data, information and analytics as services; 55, 359?363
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211883713000853#aff0005
Lederman R, Hanmei F, Smith S, Chang S.2014. Who can you trust? Credibility assessment in online
health forums.Health Policy and Technolog, 3,13–25
https://hbr.org/2014/03/who?can?you?trust
During the course you will get more articles and document´s to read.
Additional reading;
The EU legal framework on e?health
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/138185/E94886_ch13.pdf?ua=1
E?health; ethical and data privacy challenges in the EU
https://www.cov.com/~/media/files/corporate/publications/2011/04/e?health???ethical?and?dataprivacy?
challenges?in?the?eu.pdf
Overview of the national laws on electronic health records in the EU Member States and their
interaction with the provision of cross?border eHealth services Final report and recommendations
http://ec.europa.eu/health/ehealth/docs/laws_report_recommendations_en.pdf
Ashly D. Black1 , Josip Car1 , Claudia Pagliari2 , Chantelle Anandan2 , Kathrin Cresswell2 , Tomislav
Bokun1 , Brian McKinstry2 , Rob Procter3 , Azeem Majeed4 , Aziz Sheikh2 . 2011.
The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Health Care: A Systematic Overview . PLOS medicine
Published: January 18, 2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387

Alternative completion methods of implementation

There are not any specif other way to work with study unit, but there can be modifided solutions if needed by student after discuused by teacher.

Co-operation with working life and/or RDI

The use of mobile devices and eHealth technology is growing, and digital services are one of the
largest areas for new entrepreneurs and start-ups within EU. In order to create customer oriented and
trustworthy digital health and social services, multi-professional knowledge is needed.
The partners, Laurea, Arcada, Metropolia and Haaga-Helia UAS in Finland, Tartu Health Care College
in Estonia, Red Cross Medical College of Riga Stradi?š University and Latvia Culture College at Latvian
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Academy of Culture in Latvia, are for the third time arranging an intensive course: Multi-professional
Digital Developer ”Muddie 3”.
The main aim of the intensive course is to offer Nordic-Baltic experts and students the possibility to share
practices and work together with customer oriented service design in digital health and welfare.
The intensive course is a platform for workshops designing, building and further developing services in
eHealth and eSocial, as part of the DeDiWe project. In the DeDiWe project (Developer of Digital health
and Welfare services, 2015-2018, funded by the Central Baltic), a new multi-professional 30 credit
curriculum was built, focusing on learning in multi-professional groups in international context. After the
CB funding, the DeDiWe course continues as normal studies in partner schools. Teachers' and students'
mobility is important and depending on Nordplus funding.
Previous Muddie implementations have created deeper relationships between the partners and
increased common knowledge about higher education organizations and their working life partners. The
multi-professional and multicultural work was innovative and rewarding and made the students stronger
actors in the RIS3 areas and future developers of new innovative health and welfare services.

Important dates

The Study unit is virtual and working space is in Slack environment
The Slackinars are in Spring 2019 as follwing days between 13 - 15
17.1 # digital services
7.2 #laws and regulations
14.2 #standardize language and documentation
28.2 #pathways
7.3# conclusion

Forms of internationality

The partners, Laurea, Arcada, Metropolia and Haaga-Helia UAS in Finland, Tartu Health Care College
in Estonia, Red Cross Medical College of Riga Stradi?š University and Latvia Culture College at Latvian
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Academy of Culture in Latvia,

Students workload

There will be those two hours contact times in LSack environment five times during the studies and between contact times there is group working with international groups.

Content and scheduling

The Study unit is virtual and working space is in Slack environment
The Slackinars are in Spring 2019 as follwing days between 13 - 15
17.1, 7.2, 14.2, 28.2, 7.3.

Further information for students

If any questions please contact outi.ahonen@laurea.fi

Evaluation methods and criteria

The assessment will be done by evaluating individual and group assignments in study module.
Every country is using their own assessment process, comparing to EQF 5 or 6.
The language in the assignments is English.
The evaluation is Accepted or Complemented