HCIN 6022 Digital Health

Short Description

Note: HCIN 6022 should only be taken as an elective if students plan to apply for the Graduate Certificate in Health Care and Technology from the Perelman School of Medicine. All SEAS students entering the Graduate Certificate in Health Care and Technology must take this course as part of their degree studies. SEAS students taking this course for credit in an engineering degree must complete a final project focused on an area of computer science. This course will be billed at PSOM's tuition course rate: https://www.med.upenn.edu/maccentral/tuition-and-fees.html This course is designed for graduate and professional students to gain an understanding of the digital health landscape so you might effectively leverage technology for innovation, with consideration of patient-centered care, equity, and ethical issues. You will explore a range of health care settings, health care data types, the role of patients as sources of data and recipients of information, the role of humans in-the-loop of AI, and the security, privacy, and confidentiality concerns of digital health approaches. We will discuss emerging systems still in their infancy, and enabling technologies outside of the hospital: what they can do, what they are unable to do, and which of them have the potential to revolutionize the way we deliver care from birth to old age. You will apply these lessons to design an experimental prototype and draft a plan for a digital health solution.

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Content

This course is designed for graduate and professional students to gain an understanding of the digital health landscape so you might effectively leverage technology for innovation, with consideration of patient-centered care, equity, and ethical issues. You will explore a range of health care settings, health care data types, the role of patients as sources of data and recipients of information, the role of humans in-the-loop of AI, and the security, privacy, and confidentiality concerns of digital health approaches. We will discuss emerging systems still in their infancy, and enabling technologies outside of the hospital: what they can do, what they are unable to do, and which of them have the potential to revolutionize the way we deliver care from birth to old age. You will apply these lessons to design an experimental prototype and draft a plan for a digital health solution.

Note: HCIN 6022 should only be taken as an elective if students plan to apply for the Graduate Certificate in Health Care and Technology from the Perelman School of Medicine. All SEAS students entering the Graduate Certificate in Health Care and Technology must take this course as part of their degree studies. SEAS students taking this course for credit in an engineering degree must complete a final project focused on an area of computer science. This course will be billed at PSOM’s tuition course rate: https://www.med.upenn.edu/maccentral/tuition-and-fees.html