Health informatics - needs, objectives and limitations, 5 credits
Hälsoinformatik - behov, mål och begränsningar, 5 hp- Course code
- 9HI000
- Course name
- Health informatics - needs, objectives and limitations
- Credits
- 5 credits
- Form of Education
- Contract education (credits)
- Main field of study
- Health Informatics
- Level
- G2 - First cycle 2
- Grading scale
- Excellent, Very good, Good, Satisfactory, Sufficient, Fail, Fail
- Department
- Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics
- Decided by
- Education committee LIME
- Decision date
- 2015-03-20
- Course syllabus valid from
- Autumn 2017
Specific entry requirements
A Bachelor's degree or a professional degree equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits in health care, biomedicine, medical technology, computer and systems sciences, informatics or the equivalent. Knowledge of the English language equivalent to English B at Swedish upper secondary school.
Objectives
On completion of the course the student should be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- describe the subject of health informatics, both as an academic discipline and its practical application in health care as well as its history and development,
- illustrate different health informatics applications within care, nursing and research,
- describe the role that health informatics plays in today´s health care.
Skills and ability
- work in an interdisciplinary collaboration and in international/multi-disciplinary constellations.
Assessment ability and attitudes
- analyse and assess the need of information and advanced knowledge within care, nursing and research,
- develop and explain an international perspective for health informatics as a discipline.
Content
The course describes the subject health informatics and its main aims and challenges – at present and in the future. The course gives an overview of different professional roles that a health informatician may have partly depending on work areas in clinical medicine, technical development, or research. In a project work, the students should develop an international perspective on the subject and reflect on their career possibilities.
Teaching methods
Lectures, demonstrations, group work and seminars (international/interdisciplinary work groups indentifie current international/regional/local health informatics projects and professional organisations in the field as well as career possibilities).
Examination
Oral presentation (Fail/Pass)
Written assignment (A-F)
The final grade on the course is based on the written assignment.
Compulsory participation
Paritcipation in the course registration and the end-seminar is compulsory.The course director assesses if and, in that case, how absence can be compensated. Before the student has participated in all compulsory parts or compensated absence in accordance with the course director's instructions, the student's results for the course/respective part will not be registered in LADOK.
Limitation of number of occasions to write the exam
The number of occasions to write the exam is regulated in the contract for executive education.
The number of times that the student has participated in one and the same examination is regarded as an examination session. Submission of a blank examination is regarded as an examination. An examination for which the student registered but not participated in will not be counted as an examination.
Transitional provisions
The course is an executive education and transitional provisions are regulated in the contract.
Other directives
Course evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the guidelines established by the Board of Higher Education.
The course is given in English.
Literature and other teaching aids
Course provides all teaching material