IT Infrastructure for Digital Health (ISYS90076)

This subject develops technical capabilities required for sound infrastructure decision-making about digital health solutions and management, including telehealth, cloud computing, security and standards. It reviews the digital health building blocks of hardware, hosting platforms and networks. It identifies requirements for designing solutions to support clinical workflows and the need for interoperability of systems, as well as outlining technical management and governance issues.

Five major topics are covered in lectures and tutorials, as well as demonstrations and site visits where possible: (a) End user computing and the health devices layer; (b) Digital health network connectivity; (c) Health information and communication systems, platforms and hosting; (d) Functional interoperability and secure messaging in healthcare ; (e) Governance and management of health ICT infrastructure.