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Health IT Project (ISYS90079)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Online and Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Summer Term
Professor Kathleen Gray
Email: kgray@unimelb.edu.au
Semester 1
Professor Kathleen Gray
Email: kgray@unimelb.edu.au
Semester 2
Professor Kathleen Gray
Email: kgray@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | Summer Term - Online Semester 1 - Online Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
AIMS
Students in this subject simulate the work of a consultant engaged to provide independent health informatics advice to an organisational client in the health sector. Students receive a realistic consultancy brief in the first week of study, setting out a complex information system or information technology issue related to managing health data, health information or health knowledge within an organisational setting. Students work individually on their approach to this brief, producing and revising drafts of work done regularly throughout the study period. Students also participate regularly in group webinars where they receive information and coaching to achieve consulting project milestones, present draft work they have done to date, and discuss ways to progress through their project. Students produce a final cumulated consultant’s report suitable for inclusion in a professional portfolio.
The subject provides students with skills and knowledge for scoping and staging an industry research project, analysing and solving problems, formulating options, planning to implement recommendations, and enhancing professional written and oral presentation skills.
INDICATIVE CONTENT
The subject provides a capstone experience for students in the Master of Information Systems Health specialisation. The subject requires students to synthesise skills and knowledge they have developed from prior study in these subjects: ISYS90069 eHealth and Biomedical Informatics Systems; INFO90001 eHealth and Biomedical Informatics Methods; ISYS90078 Health Data, Information and Knowledge; ISYS90076 IT Infrastructure for eHealth; ISYS90077 eHealth Applications and Solutions, as well as from their elective subjects in health informatics and digital health.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject the student is expected to:
- Independently investigate a complex organisational issue related to a health information systems or health information technology
- Synthesise industry and scientific sources of information about the issue, relevant to an organisational client
- Develop optional responses to the issue and recommended actions, appropriate to an organisational client
- Produce, present and discuss professional reports intended for an organisational client
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students should have developed the following generic skills:
- Be able to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution
- Have a capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning
- Have a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of scholarship
- Be able to present work in written form
- Be able to present work orally and answer questions about it
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Selection of the Health specialisation informal specialisation in the MC-IS Master of Information Systems
AND
In the final semester of the course.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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ENGR90033 | Internship |
Semester 1 (Online)
Summer Term (Online)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
25 |
ISYS90109 | Information Systems Min Res Project Pt 1 |
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ISYS90110 | Information Systems Min Res Project Pt 2 |
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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An Expression of Interest (10%) of approximately 500 words due in week 2, requiring approximately 30 hours of work.
| Week 2 | 10% |
A draft diagnostic report (10%) of approximately 500 words due in week 5, requiring approximately 30 hours of work.
| Week 5 | 10% |
A draft options report (15%) of approximately 500 words, due in week 8, requiring approximately 30 hours of work.
| Week 8 | 15% |
A draft implementation report (15%) of approximately 500 words due in week 11, requiring approximately 30 hours of work.
| Week 11 | 15% |
A final cumulated report (50%) of approximately 6500 words due in week 12, requiring approximately 120 hours of work.
| Week 12 | 50% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term - Online
Principal coordinator Kathleen Gray Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours, comprising of one 1 hour seminar per week, plus regular contact equivalent to one hour per week with a project supervisor Total time commitment 400 hours Teaching period 4 January 2022 to 18 February 2022 Last self-enrol date 13 January 2022 Census date 21 January 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 February 2022 Assessment period ends 26 February 2022 Summer Term contact information
Professor Kathleen Gray
Email: kgray@unimelb.edu.au
- Semester 1 - Online
Principal coordinator Kathleen Gray Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours, comprising of one 1 hour seminar per week, plus regular contact equivalent to one hour per week with a project supervisor Total time commitment 400 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022 Semester 1 contact information
Professor Kathleen Gray
Email: kgray@unimelb.edu.au
- Semester 2 - Dual-Delivery
Principal coordinator Kathleen Gray Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours, comprising of one 1 hour seminar per week, plus regular contact equivalent to one hour per week with a project supervisor Total time commitment 400 hours Teaching period 25 July 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 5 August 2022 Census date 31 August 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022 Semester 2 contact information
Professor Kathleen Gray
Email: kgray@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
400 hours
Additional delivery details
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Subject notes
LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS
This subject is offered online over a 12 week period, 3 times each year: in semester 1, semester 2 and summer (December – February). Students participate in a series of interactive webinars to present their progress and receive feedback. The majority of student time over the 12 week period is spent in independent desk-based industry research.
Learning materials, subject documentation, communication and assessment are handled using a subject website in the University Learning Management System.
INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES
This subject has no textbook. Students are expected to use the University library’s electronic databases, and the Internet, to find resources relevant to the specific consultancy task that is set for them each time the subject runs.
Students are provided with access to electronic full-text of recommended readings, including current journal articles, government documents and industry reports about the methodology of health IT consulting. Examples:
Balasubramanian, S. 2020. The $50+ billion consulting industry supporting healthcare that you may not know about. Forbes Magazine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2020/02/17/the-50-billion-consulting-industry-supporting-healthcare-that-you-may-not-know-about/#4ec2b4777a97
Markham, C. 2015. The consulting project cycle. In Management Consultancy. Henry Stewart Talks. https://hstalks.com/t/3071/the-consulting-project-cycle/?business
CAREERS/INDUSTRY LINKS
This subject is offered jointly by the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Students work on a real-world digital health problem, under the supervision of an established academic with health informatics expertise. This subject prepares students to undertake a wide variety of digital health projects in technology industry, public policy and clinical care settings.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Information Systems - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024