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Digital Learning Health Systems (INFO90011)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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Semester 1
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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: 4 March 2025