B2954 - Digital Healthcare

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Pharmacy (cod. 5987)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the basic skills related to digital health and to the main solutions for improving health service and their cost-quality ratio and for reducing differences between territories. Knowledge of health standards and of the General Data Protection Regulation Compliance guidelinesare part of the course.The general concepts will be declined with practical examples such as electronic health record, CUP and telemedicine projects for biomedical data transfer.

Course contents

Introduction to Digital Healthcare

Electrophysiology

Medical Imaging

Bioinformatics for In-vitro diagnostics

Wearable Sensors and Mobile Health

Medical Devices and Digital Health Tools

Artificial Intelligence

Telemedicine

Electronic Health Records (EHR), Data Management, and Interoperability

Readings/Bibliography

Coder, M., McBride, L. & McClenahan, S. Core elements of national policy for digital health technology evidence and access. npj Digit. Med. 7, 212 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-024-01209-2

Mathews, S.C., McShea, M.J., Hanley, C.L. et al. Digital health: a path to validation. npj Digit. Med. 2, 38 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-019-0111-3

Chen, C., Ding, S. & Wang, J. Digital health for aging populations. Nat Med 29, 1623–1630 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02391-8

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson in the classroom. (24 hours)

Assessment methods

Students will be assessed through a written examination, with the option of an additional oral examination.

Teaching tools

Teaching tools will be available on Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Valerio Antonio Arcobelli