Healthcare Fundamentals and Digital Health Trends

This is a bridging module directed at students of the Master’s Programme Digital Health with IT or other non-healthcare background.

Seit 16. Februar 2024 im Selbststudium
Kurssprache: English

Kursinformationen

This is a bridging module directed at students of the Master’s Programme Digital Health with an IT or other non-healthcare background. The course provides knowledge of principal elements of healthcare and public health systems as well as global health initiatives, including their stakeholders, institutions, regulations, and functional interplay. It will equip students with a solid working knowledge of fundamentals and emerging trends in healthcare, public health, and global health. In the first block “Healthcare Systems and Industries”, students will focus on the composition of healthcare systems and the interplay between stakeholders, complemented by an in-depth view of various healthcare industries and digital health trends and applications. In the second block “Public and Global Health, Digital Health Trends”, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of global health including the ethical principles that govern global public health practice, and focus on the essence of disease prevention, global health crises, and regulatory aspects of digitalisation in healthcare. In this course students will learn to comprehend, assess and apply information about stakeholders and their interplay in healthcare systems, public health, global health, and specialized health domains - in context of the emerging digital health landscape.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe and discuss fundamental building blocks of healthcare systems and their roles, actors, organizations and policies
  • Identify and interpret the role and impact of healthcare industries in healthcare systems and digital health trends/applications
  • Recognize and explain public health, the global health framework, its organizations and regulations and describe opportunities and challenges for digital health solutions in global health issues
  • Examine and evaluate the impact and interplay of actors, policies and organizations in creating and implementing digital solutions
  • Analyze and assess opportunities and challenges for digital health solutions and create conceptual foundations for winning solutions

Characteristics of Class Meetings/Lectures: double block on Thursdays – 25 lectures plus final exam

Date and Time: Starts on Thursday, October 19, 2023

First session from from 09:15am – 10:45am Second session from 11:00am - 12:30 pm

Location: L.1.06

Lernmaterial

  • Week 1: INTRODUCTION: "Healthcare Fundamentals and Digital Health Trends" (Wieler, zu Putlitz, Antao):

    1) Intro "Healthcare Fundamentals and Digital Health Trends" 2)Healthcare in Practice: Basic Building Blocks of Healthcare Systems
  • Week 2: Corporatization & Consumerization in Healthcare (zu Putlitz):

    1) Corporatization of Healthcare 2) Consumerization in Healthcare - Empowering the Patient
  • Week 3: Healthcare Industries (zu Putlitz)

  • Week 4: Connected Health – the what and how of digital transformation in healthcare (Wamprecht)

  • Week 5: Prevention of Disease: the benefits of digital technology (Wieler, Antao)

  • Week 6: Fundamentals of Global Public Health (including Ethics) (Wieler, Antao)

  • Week 7: Global Healthcare and Public Health Systems (Hanefeld)

  • Week 8: Digital technology and Public Health Communication (Wieler, Antao)

  • Week 9: Global Health Crises: Using digital technology to tackle crises (Wieler, Antao)

  • Week 10: Fundamentals of Vaccination (Kentrup)

  • Week 11: Regulatory aspects of digitization in healthcare (part 1) (Broich) :CANCELED

  • Week 12: Regulatory aspects of digitization in healthcare (part 2) (Broich)

  • Week 13: Digital technology for health and the common good - ONLINE on FRIDAY, 26 January (Thiede)

  • Week 14: Teamwork Presentations: Digital health use cases to fight a global health crisis (Wieler, Antao)

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Lernende

Aktuell
Heute
35
Kursende
16. Februar 2024
35
Kursstart
19. Oktober 2023
8

Dieser Kurs wird angeboten von

Dr. Jasper zu Putlitz

Dr. Jasper zu Putlitz is Operating Partner at Triton Partners, a European private equity firm, and lecturer at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) Digital Health Center. He has over 30 years of healthcare experience. He was Managing Director at Accenture Strategy where he led the healthcare and public services business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; CEO of Bosch Healthcare Systems, a telehealth company headquartered in California; and partner of McKinsey & Company. He has a clinical and science background with roles as Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard University’s Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center as well as resident and fellow in internal medicine / gastroenterology at various European university hospitals. Jasper holds a M.D. degree from the University of Munich. Together with Erwin Böttinger, he published the book "Die Zukunft der Medizin" (The future of medicine).