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Course Description Status: Approved

Course Description Version: 25/26.R.1.00

Description Period: 2025./26 academic year rudens semestris

Study Course Accepted: -

Study Course Description

Introduction to Digital Health

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
VVDG_028
Branch of Science
Other social sciences
ECTS
12.00
Target Audience
Health Management
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Daiga Behmane
Structure Unit Manager
Daiga Behmane
Structural Unit
Health Management Teaching Group
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga

About Study Course

Objective

To provide knowledge about digital health and its various elements by analyzing and evaluating commonly used digital health solutions to improve access to healthcare, efficiency and productivity.

Preliminary Knowledge

Data Analysis in Health Care, Health Economics, Health System Design.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
12.00
Contact hours:
96 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Bhavnani, Sanjeev P.; Narula, Jagat; Sengupta, Partho P. (2016). "Mobile technology and the digitization of healthcare". European Heart Journal. 37 (18): 1428–38.

2.

Miedany, Yasser El. (2017). "Telehealth and telemedicine: how the digital era is changing standard health care". Smart Homecare Technology and TeleHealth. 4: 43–52.

3.

Merians, Alma S.; Jack, David; Boian, Rares; et.al. (2002). "Virtual reality--augmented rehabilitation for patients following stroke. (Case Report)". Physical Therapy. 82 (9): 898–916. (akceptējams izdevums)

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Agrawal, Raag; Prabakaran, Sudhakaran (5 March 2020). "Big data in digital healthcare: lessons learnt and recommendations for general practice". Heredity. 124 (4): 525–534. (akceptējams izdevums)

5.

Lupton, Deborah (2014). "Critical Perspectives on Digital Health Technologies". Sociology Compass. 8 (12): 1344–1359.

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WHO (2016). From innovation to implementation e-health in the WHO European region, pp. 31-39. World Health Organization (WHO, Ed.)

7.

Rivas, Homero; Wac, Katarzyna (2018). Digital Health: Scaling Healthcare to the World (Health Informatics) 1st ed. Springer.

8.

Marx, Edward, W.; Padmanabhan, Paddy (2021). Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future, 1st ed. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

Additional Reading

1.

Widmer, R. Jay; Collins, Nerissa M.; Collins, C. Scott; et.al. (2015). "Digital Health Interventions for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 90 (4): 469–80

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Amft, O. (2018). "How Wearable Computing Is Shaping Digital Health". IEEE Pervasive Computing. 17 (1): 92–98

3.

Monaghesh, Elham; Hajizadeh, Alireza (2020). "The role of telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak: a systematic review based on current evidence". BMC Public Health. 20 (1): 1193.

Other Information Sources

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Institute of Digital Healthcare – University of Warwick.

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ZHAW Digital Health Lab.

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Digital Health Center of Excellence.