The programme will develop individuals with the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to understand and critically evaluate electronic healthcare data in a manner compatible with innovative commercialisation opportunities

The course will:

• Provide professionally relevant teaching and learning of the knowledge and skills at the forefront the successful understanding and utilisation of electronic healthcare data.
• Develop healthcare data experts with the necessary expertise, and originality of application, to pursue and expand their roles in the rapidly evolving environment of healthcare data.
• Promote a comprehensive understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to healthcare data, informatics, innovation and commercialisation.
• Ensure a systems-based approach to the critical analysis and development of improvements in healthcare systems.
• Provide work-relevant learning around the current problems, best-practice, challenges and potential solutions in the use of healthcare data.
• Instil a critically reflective approach to the processes involved in the development of innovative and commercially viable opportunities arising from healthcare data.
• Create a professional network of like-minded individuals as leaders in the field of healthcare data commercialisation.
• Provide students with the skills and knowledge to execute the entire process from initial curiosity driven healthcare data queries, through to data analysis and visualization, healthcare systems analysis, change management, and developing skills for data entrepreneurship, commercialisation, and digital marketing in a work-relevant and practical manner.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes
The programme provides the skills and knowledge needed to convert digital health data within electronic patient records, trial registries, and audit networks into effective research, service improvement tools which may have commercial applicability.

In particular the over-arching learning outcomes are:

Knowledge and understanding

• To enhance the students’ systematic knowledge and critical understanding of the diverse range of healthcare data produced, the way this is stored and handled and the problems this presents.
• To develop students’ ability to evaluate and to critically compare healthcare data sets in order to make value-based judgements on the most appropriate analytical and visualisation approaches to use.
• To enable students to describe and critique the functional and organisational structure of healthcare datasets.
• To provide a comprehensive understanding of the skills necessary to enable students’ to critically review and interpret healthcare data in the context of developing decision support tools, systemic change, and potentially novel commercial leads.
• To create an enquiring perspective to enable critical and evaluative discussion that extends student understanding of key ethical issues in the acquisition and use of healthcare data.
• To develop students’ ability to evaluate best practices in the use of healthcare data and apply appropriate methods to their own work.
• To enable students to understand and apply the academic and professional theories and applications of change management, innovation, commercialisation, and entrepreneurship to the utilisation of healthcare data.
• To enhance the students’ systematic knowledge and critical understanding of the importance, relevance, breadth and applicability of healthcare data in the modern world.
• To develop students’ ability to critically evaluate subject matter.
• To enable students to describe and critique key analytical, visualisation, and commercialisation techniques and approaches relevant to healthcare data.

Skills and other attributes

• To develop a data query and follow this with appropriate application of analytical and visualisation tools.
• To define, develop and implement the process of change management in a healthcare context.
• To demonstrate systematic knowledge of the skills and methodologies necessary to: understand healthcare data in a repository; to perform appropriate analytical interpretation of the data; to apply appropriate visualisation tools and techniques; to identify innovative commercial potential in a critically evaluative manner, under their own initiative.
• To present an appropriate understanding of, and technical competence in, the analytical and visualisation methods required for understanding healthcare data and for engaging downstream user groups and stakeholders.
• To design, prepare, implement and evaluate a business case and digital marketing strategy for the innovative commercialisation of healthcare data.

Departments

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