Program Overview

Digital Health Innovation and Organizational Change Processes in a Healthcare Context

Module Overview

This module focuses on digital health innovations and organizational change processes in the healthcare sector. The aim is for students to independently identify and formulate a relevant challenge within digital health, serving as a case for exploring aspects of organizational change and implementation processes related to digital health innovations in a healthcare context.

Learning Objectives

Knowledge

• Have knowledge about design and development of digital technologies in a healthcare context.
• Have knowledge about organizational change processes that center on digital technologies.
• Have knowledge about how to design, develop, and implement digital technologies in a healthcare context.

Skills

• Can identify and document the need for digital technology.
• Can use relevant theories and methods in design and development of digital technologies.
• Can facilitate and implement technological innovations in a healthcare context.
• Can discuss and evaluate the implementation of digital technologies in the healthcare sector using relevant theories and methods.

Competences

• Can identify the knowledge necessary to develop, test, and implement digital health technologies.
• Can evaluate the results of new digital health technology in clinical practice using relevant theories and methods.
• Can establish and carry out project collaboration with external partners relevant to the identified issue.

Type of Instruction

The intention with the project work is to support the learning objectives. The teaching format is blended learning based on self-study of both written material, supervision, discussion in study groups, and online status seminars.

Exam

Exams

• Name of exam: Digital Health Innovation and Organizational Change Processes in a Healthcare Context
• Type of exam: Oral exam based on a project
• ECTS: 10
• Permitted aids: See semester description
• Assessment: 7-point grading scale
• Type of grading: External examination
• Criteria of assessment: The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Facts about the Module

• Danish title: Digital health innovationer og organisatoriske forandringsprocesser i sundhedssektoren
• Module code: SOTDH24M2_1
• Module type: Project
• Duration: 1 semester
• Semester: Spring
• ECTS: 10
• Language of instruction: English
• Location of the lecture: Campus Aalborg
• Responsible for the module: Birthe Dinesen
• Used in: Curriculum for the Professional Master's Programme in Digital Health, 2024

Organisation

• Education owner: Master of Digital Health
• Study Board: Study Board of Health and Technology
• Department: Department of Health Science and Technology
• Faculty: The Faculty of Medicine