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The master course Digital Health introduces master students to the subject of digitization in health care. Students will learn about the theoretical foundations and practical implications of various topics surrounding the digitization in health care, including health information systems, telematics, big health care data, and patient-centered health care.

After an introduction to the challenge of digitization in health care, the following sessions will focus on an in-depth exploration of selected cases that represent current challenges in research and practice. Students will work (in a group of 3-4) on a selected topic and have to write a course paper. Students can choose a topic from a variety of topics. To answer the research questions, students can use literature reviews but also interviews, surveys, programming tasks, and other research methods are possible.

There will be a short introduction to the topics for the course paper in the following topic areas. In addition, it will be possible to propose your own topics as a group in the topic areas: 

• Mobile Health (mHealth) / Gamification
• Distributed Ledger Technology / Blockchain
• Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
• Genomics / Biomedical Data

Since we offer topics in this course that also correspond to the research interests in our research group, there may be the opportunity to work on the topics in more depth in the course of a final thesis.

Learning objectives:

Students know about the challenges of digitization in health care and can leverage relevant concepts and technologies to address these challenges. Students learn to work in teams and critically discuss digital health topics with fellow students, researchers, and practitioners.

Notes:

The number of participants is limited to 30 students. Please register at the Wiwi-Portal here. The registration will be opened from September 7, 2021 until October 12, 2021.

Please make sure that you are available at the following dates if you want to take the course:

• 21.10.2021, 16:00–17:30 - 1. Introduction to Digital Health
• 28.10.2021, 16:00–17:30 - 2. Topic Area Presentation #1
• 04.11.2021, 16:00–17:30 - 3. Topic Area Presentation #2
• 11.11.2021, 16:00–17:30 - 4. Guest Lecture
• 10.02.2022, 10:00–17:00 - Final Presentation

Further information on the course structure will be announced in the first session. Depending on the number of participants the individual sessions can have a shorter duration.

The meetings will take place online via MS Teams. We will provide a link to join the team if your registration was approved.

If you have any questions regarding course registration, please contact scott.thiebes@kit.edu or manuel.schmidt-kraepelin@kit.edu