Connected Health and mHealth

Upon completion of the course: The students will have knowledge about the current overall status of clinical use of health information systems and related tools targeted to health professionals (e.g. e-Health, telemedicine) or to citizens (e.g. HealthVillage.FI, OMAOLO.FI-portal and other self-care portals) in Finland. The students will have knowledge about the current development in mobile health technology solutions and connected health projects. The students have been introduced to some practical development examples taking place in OYS Testlab and possibly in other Oulu health test labs. The students have had an opportunity to consult with some enterprises currently working in the m-Health / Connected health domain. Depending on the student composition of the course, the students have learned collaboration and co-creation in a multiprofessional environment in the medical information and communication technology domain.

The course is organised as multimodal teaching, if not otherwise requested by the authorities. The actual implementation methods of the course vary. The course will consist of a combination of self-learning materials and activating workshops and other modules. The below mentioned numbers of hours are approximations, because the actual contents will vary according to available development projects from enterprises: - virtual learning material in the university virtual learning environment (recorded lectures, examples, additional material) /with self-learning 40 hours of student´s time. - activating facilitated workshops, where the iterative innovation process is introduced to the students + introductions to the test laboratory environment + special key-note lectures either in the virtual environment or as participatory lectures in seminars/with self-learning 40 hours of student`s time. - Discussions and participation to web tasks /with self-learning 40 h of student´s time. - Exams and related work/with self-learning 15 h hours of student´s time.

It is recommended that the student has completed the course 041201A Basics in eHealth 5 ECTS credits.

In order to complete the course, the student will be watching on-line and recorded lectures, participates moderated discussion and workshops and other activating tasks, and course exams. During the course, where will be mandatory lectures, visits and workshops, which the students have to participate in order to pass the course. There is also activating webtasks and discussions and exams which are assessed either as passed/failed or on numerical scale depending on the task/exam. The weighted average of tasks and exams determines the overall course scale. More detailed evaluation criteria can be found in the course Moodle. Evaluation scale is 0-5, where 0 means failed.

Jarmo Reponen

Online, workshops as hybrid or online teaching. Detailed course schedules will be published in July 2022. The facilitated workshops are meant to be organized in collaboration with OuluHealth TestLabs and enterprises according to availability. The timetable is available at: https://opas.peppi.oulu.fi/en/course/080927S/7302?period=2022-2023