Course syllabus

🏁 Learning objectives

W1: Introduction → click for module

• Understand the course-level learning objectives
• Understand the course setup (self study, guest lectures, assignments and examination)
• Understand the role of the book
• Understand the role of the tools involved (Mendix)
• Understand the role of the responsible teacher, and the teaching and student assistants
• Hands-on skills with Mendix data modeler and form designer

 

W2: Clinical research → click for module

• Understand the setup of a typical clinical study
• Know the learnings and open issues of a concrete study
• Understand in detail the specifics of a concrete study
• Understand the architecture of a patient-/consumer-centric health information system 
• Master design skills for a configurable health information system
• Know the history of interoperability approaches
• Master practical interoperability techniques (Mendix, JSON, OAuth)
• Understand the concrete input and output of Health applications such as Google Fit
• Understand requirements for fine-grained access control rules in a healthcare and social media setting
• Know terminology specific to patient portals and PHRs (e.g., Passive Information Access vs Active Information Access)

 

W3: Telehealth & health promotion → click for module

• Know the nature and user types for different kindsof Telehealth (POTS, message-based, portal, remote monitoring, teleradiology, tele-ICU, remote patient rounds, ...)
• Know the key scientists from sociology and psychology in relation to patient engagement
• Know key definitions (e.g., for PHRs)
• Understand how big EHR vendors have slowed down PHR adoption historically
• Know how Mandl and Kohane advocated for PHR app stores (cf., www.smartplatforms. org) and understand how that relates to this course's Assignment 1.
• Understand the need for external rewards and social networking mechanisms
• Understand how information is structured inside a patient-centered health information system
• Master design skills for prototyping a health information system that respects values such as privacy

 

W4: Standards → click for module

• Understand the role of standards in connected healthcare information systems
• Reason critically about the need for more standards, especially at the national level
• Understand what is the role of coding systems
• Understand how European Health Data Infrastructure is being improved
• Know the history of international health information standards and coding systems from the last decades
• Know how standard information sets are used in specific systems (e.g., for CDS)

 

W5: Data warehousing → click for module

• Understand the complex system architectures that are prevalent within and across health organizations
• Know what data warehousing is, and how it is used in practice
• Understand the meaning and context of terms like DRGs, DBCs, MedMij, PHRs, PGOs, the VIPP subsedy, HL7, FHIR, and ICHOM,
• Understand various ways to quantify the predictive value of clinical tests and machine learning models.

 

W6: Ethics → click for module

• Know the relevant bodies governing ethics in a healthcare setting
• Know the key principles and bodies relevant to healthcare ethics
• Know European laws such as GDPR and MDR
• Know the international context of healthcare ethics
• Understand what needs to be done before starting a research project in healthcare

 

W7: Health tech industry → click for module

• Know the various types of imaging modalities from the healthcare domain
• Understand the various levels of support needed when working with medical images (including but not limited to an IGT context)
• Know the size and structure of a global health tech company
• Know the societal challenges related to healthcare
• Understand how industry trends relate to those challenges
• Know concepts like the health continuum, care pathways and the quadruple aim
• Understand how business process management concepts are relevant to healthcare
• Manage BPMN modeling skills in the context of clinical pathways
• Understand when CMMN or 3D simulation models may supplement BPMN
• Understand how KPIs and dashboards support healthcare operations 
• Know healthcare process improvement techniques such as RePro
• Know roughly the utilization rate of resources in a typical Dutch academic hospital
• Understand how process mining techniques are relevant to healthcare operations management

 

W8: Health insurance → click for module

• Health Payments in The Netherlands: know who covers how much (roughly)
• Know the evolution of healthcare expenses across one's lifetime
• Know the distribution of expenses across the care chain
• Understand how solidarity is safeguarded even in an open market
• Know the meaning of terms like DBCs, DOTs and DRGs
• Know the role of software systems related to DBCs
• Understand threats related to DBC "datification", know terms such as upcoding

 

W9: Text mining in healthcare → click for module

• Understand the challenges of unstructured data
• Know the overall architecture of text mining pipelines
• Know relevant concepts such as thesauri
• Know relevant applications of text mining data from electronic health records
• Know about social media mining in a healthcare context

• Participate actively in the lectures and grasp what you are taught;
• Use the Canvas Forum early on to discuss with peers and deepen your understanding (we will intervene when appropriate).
• Practice the formative exercises (do not just copy the answers from lecturers/peers);
• Visit the instruction / Q&A hours and come prepared;
• Read the book with an open mindset, to broaden your knowledge of the field