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Applied Learning Health Systems (INFO90011)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: Contact Stop 1
Future Students:
- Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/
Semester 2
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: Contact Stop 1
Future Students:
- Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 - Online Semester 2 - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
Nearly 40% of healthcare costs can be attributed to wastage and harm. At the same time, digital health and informatics is generating rich and valuable data that can be used to generate insights and improve the quality of care, enhance patient-centred care, as well as dramatically increase value-based care. While, on average, it takes 17 years for research to translate and have impact in the clinical setting, the Learning Health System framework allows for immediate real-time interrogation of data and implementation of knowledge gained in rapid quality improvement cycles, to ultimately improve patient outcomes.
This subject will enable students to simulate and reflect on a Learning Healthcare System approach to a health service digital transformation project; to use digital patient data to gain new knowledge about a problem; to use this knowledge to inform a digital innovation in practice; and to use the ensuing practice-based evidence to guide digital health management decisions. These concepts will be taught through the lens of a real-world digital health intervention case study and the toolkit approach provides a framework to apply to the learners’ workplace endeavours.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Appraise emerging trends and approaches in digital health and informatics.
- Illustrate how concepts of the Learning Health System can be applied to your current workplace and role.
- Outline potential activities in a Learning Health System project starting with data access and analysis - through designing a virtual care model - and ending with evaluation, implementation, and transformation.
- Create a proposal for a Learning Health Systems (LHS) project that could be implemented at your current or future workplace, which applies digitally-enabled LHS concepts.
Generic skills
- Demonstrate critical enquiry, analysis and reflection
- Write proficiently
- Work in teams
- Communicate effectively
- Be creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning
- Have a set of flexible and transferable skills for different types of employment; and
- Improved change management skills and systems thinking.
Last updated: 6 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
Recommended background knowledge
NA
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. The subject inherent requirements are the same as the course inherent requirements.
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: 6 March 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Pre and post hoc concept map on LHS concepts. On a mind mapping software, participants will have 30 minutes to externalise their knowledge of LHS on a templated LHS concept map. They will complete the same activity at the start of the course and at the end of the course for formative feedback on how much they have learned throughout the course.
| In Week 1 and Week 13 | 20% |
Participants will give a 10 minute oral presentation on how the course concepts can be applied to their current or future workplace.
| Week 6 | 20% |
Participants will propose a project at their current or future workplace that utilises concepts from the course. The proposal will include an introduction section, methods section, data management plan, and timeline of activities.
| End of the assessment period | 50% |
Participation in formative subject workshops, quizzes and discussion forums
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Last updated: 6 March 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1 - Online
Coordinator Omar Dabash Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: Contact Stop 1
Future Students:
- Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/
- Semester 2 - Online
Coordinator Omar Dabash Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: https://ask.unimelb.edu.au
- Email: Contact Stop 1
Future Students:
- Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/
Time commitment details
130 hours of asynchronous learning, including assignments, activities, readings and discussion board participation.
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Last updated: 6 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
NA
Recommended texts and other resources
NA
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics and Digital Health - 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.
- 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: 6 March 2024