e-Health

Code:

OPT5_32

Acronym:

e-S

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S (of 30-09-2024 to 10-01-2025)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Medical Teaching
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Masters Degree in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIM	5	Official Study Plan	5	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Digital solutions have the potential to radically transform health systems and education, delivering better health outcomes, services and quality through technological advances. It is expected that, within ten years, 75% of patients and caregivers will use digital health services, namely in the management of well-being, access to health care and the management of chronic diseases. This unit will contribute to innovation in digital health, aiming to respond to the societal challenges associated with the digital transformation of health and care. This is an area of recognized value and social relevance, strongly aligned with the priorities defined by Horizon Europe.Furthermore, it is also a unique opportunity for today's students to prepare for the job market they will find in the future.

At the end, students should be able to:

• Understand the role of Digital Health;
• Increase your ability to solve complex problems, decision and planning, as well as an increase in digital skills, digital health literacy and adopt an attitude towards technology;
• Understand the role of data and artificial intelligence in the health of populations and in improving working conditions, namely in decision-making support systems for health professionals;
• Understand the impact and health gains of using technologies such as robotics, mixed reality, virtual reality, …;
• Design and implement telehealth projects;
• Apply digital leadership and change management knowledge to a culture of innovation;
• Be able to identify opportunities to implement projects involving technology and patients;
• Identify the most important ethical-social and regulatory aspects of digital health practice;
• Identify the main challenges in terms of health data security;
• Know the main current and future trends in digital health;

Learning outcomes and competences

Design and Implement digital health projects;

Master the main concepts and areas of digital health;

Master future digital health trends.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Introduction to Digital Health


2. Digital Transformation in Health: Data and Artificial Intelligence


3. Robotics, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality


4. Digital Literacy in Health


5. Digital Leadership and Change Management


6. Challenges of Ethics, Law and Compliance in Digital Health


7. Data Security in Digital Health


8. Telehealth Projects


9. Digital Health: 2030 Trends


10. Workshop: Involvement of patients in innovation

Mandatory literature

Ribeiro, J. M. (2019); Saúde Digital (F. F. M. dos Santos, Ed.).
Magalhães, T. (2022); Transformação Digital em Saúde (Almedina, Ed.).

Complementary Bibliography

Ratwani R.M., Reider J, Singh H. (2019); A Decade of Health Information Technology Usability Challenges and the Path Forward. JAMA. 321(8):743–744. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.0161
Feldman, K., Hazekamp, N., & Chawla, N. V. (2016); Mining the Clinical Narrative: All Text are Not Equal. Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI.2016.37
Hussain, M.I., Et Al. (2020); How the presentation of patient information and decision-support advisories opioid prescribing behavior: A simulation study. J Am Med Inform Assoc. Apr 1;27(4):613-620. doi: 10.1093/Jamia/ocz213 Rivas, H., & Wac, K. (2020). Digital
Lupton, D. (2017). ; Digital health: Critical and cross-disciplinary perspectives. In Digital Health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315648835
Sheninger, E. (2019); DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: CHANGING PARADIGMS FOR CHANGING TIMES. INTED2019 Proceedings, 1, 10029–10029. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2019.2528
Malina Jordanova, F. L. (Ed.). (2022); A Century of Telemedicine - A World wide Overview. Part V. Malina Jordanova. https://www.isfteh.org/files/media/A_Century_of_Telemedicine_-_Part_V_2022.pdf
Chakraborty, C. (2022); Digital Health Transformation with Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. Taylor & Francis Limited. https://books.google.pt/books?id=0J67zgEACAAJ
SPMS - Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, E. P. E., & TeleSaúde, C. N. de. (2019). Plano Estratégico Nacional para a Telessaúde 2019-2022 (PENTS). https://www.spms.min-saude.pt/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/PENTS_português.pdf; .
Porter, M. E., Michael Porter, E. O. T., & Teisberg, E. O. (2006). Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results. Harvard Business School Press. https://books.google.pt/books?id=Kp5fCkAzzS8C; .
Kotter, J. P. (2017). Liderar a Mudança. LUA DE PAPEL. https://books.google.pt/books?id=OeI5DwAAQBAJ; .
Fernandes, A. C. (2022). Saúde em Portugal Pensar o futuro (E. D’Ideias, Ed.); .
Ferrari, V., Klinker, G., & Cutolo, F. (2019). Augmented Reality in Healthcare. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2019, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9321535; .

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-Practical Classes, composed of the expository aspect and analysis and discussion of practical cases applied to the themes to be addressed. Distributed evaluation with project presentation:

• in-person participation (30%);
• final project presentation - business idea linked to digital health in the form of “pitch” (70%).

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	28,00
Trabalho escrito	53,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance to a minimum of 75% of classes.
The absence of more than 25% of these classes implies lack of use.

Calculation formula of final grade

• In-person participation (30%);


• Final project presentation - business idea linked to digital health in the form of “pitch” (70%)

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The special final evaluation will be written

Classification improvement

The possibility of improving the classification will be written