B5563 - HEALTH POLICY AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course aims to provide students with the conceptual and analytical tools necessary to understand the implications on health policies arising from the increasing availability of large databases and sophisticated tools for their analysis, as well as the growing diffusion of digital technology tools also available to citizens and patients. At the end of the course, the student will be able to: understand the role and impact of the use of digital technologies in health care systems; understand the ways in which big data and digitalisation can provide tools to support public policies in achieving efficiency and equity objectives in health care systems; develop a critical analysis of some of the main recent experiences of these applications, understanding their potentialities, limitations and possible areas of development.

Contenuti

This course is designed to equip students with essential skills for evaluating the primary implications of health policies arising from the increasing availability of extensive databases and advanced analytical tools, as well as the growing dissemination of digital technologies accessible to both citizens and patients. Upon completion of the course, students will have acquired advanced knowledge in the following research areas:

- the role and impact of digital technologies in healthcare;

- the ways in which big data and digitalization can provide tools to support public policies in achieving efficiency and equity objectives within healthcare systems;

- the potentialities, limitations, and possible areas of development in the use of these technologies and data for health policy.

Testi/Bibliografia

A detailed syllabus and all the material will be available at the beginning of the classes. Course program is the same independently of class attendance.

Metodi didattici

Lectures with slides presentation.

During the classes students will be asked to give presentations of assigned papers.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Assessment will be based on the presentation of an assigned reading and a final written exam.

The final exam counts for two thirds of your overall grade. For those students who opt out of the reading's presentation, the final grade will be based entirely on a more difficult version of the final written exam.

The maximum possible score is 30 cum laude, and the grade is graduated as follows:

<18 failed
18-23 sufficient
24-27 good
28-30 very good
30 e lode excellent

Details will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Slide presentations.

Frontal lectures.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Rossella Verzulli