Digital Expertise in Health Care and Social Services (5 cr)

Code: YSZY0510-3003

General information

Enrollment: 01.11.2022 - 05.01.2023
Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 30.01.2023 - 16.04.2023
Implementation has ended.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 cr

Local portion: 0 cr

Virtual portion: 5 cr

Unit: School of Health and Social Studies

Teaching languages: Finnish

Seats: 15 - 35

Degree programmes: Master's Degree Programme in Business Network Management; Master’s Degree Programme in Health Care and Social Services; Master's Degree Programme in Project Management

Teachers: Emilia Lahdenperä; Johanna Niskakangas

Teacher in charge: Emilia Lahdenperä

Groups: YSY21SJ
Sosiaali- ja terveysalan ylempi AMK, Sosiaali- ja terveysalan johtaminen; YSY21SK
Sosiaali- ja terveysalan ylempi AMK, kliininen asiantuntija; YSV21S1
Master's Degree Programme in Business Network Management; YSY21ST
Sosiaali- ja terveysalan ylempi AMK, terveyden edistäminen; YSB21S1
Projektijohtaminen YAMK; ZJA23KSY
Avoin YAMK, sote

Course: YSZY0510

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Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Content scheduling

Opintojakso alkaa ennakkotehtävällä
Webinaarit ja portfoliotyöskentely
Itsenäinen opiskelu ja portfoliotyöskentely

Objective

The purpose of the course is to increase knowledge and expertize of digitalization in social services and health care.

After the course you will recognize the effects and potentialities of digitalization in your own field of expertise. You will get transferable skills to utilize digital methods and to reflect critically and openly to introduce digital methods in the social services and health care sector.

Content

– Digitalization and related, current effects in the social services and health care sector
– Digital methods and the attitudes and competences related to their deployment.
– Kybersecurity, nformation security and privacy protection in digital services in social services and health care sector

Materials

Hujala, A. & Taskinen, H. (toim.). 2020. Uudistuva sosiaali- ja terveysala.
Häyrinen, K. 2018. Social and health care meets digitalization – challenges and possibilities. FinJeHew, 10(2–3), 186-188.
Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö. 2016. Digitalisaatio terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin tukena. Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriön digitalisaatiolinjaukset 2025. Saatavilla: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-00-3782-6.
Teknologia ja etiikka sosiaali- ja terveysalan hoidossa ja hoivassa (Etene) 2010.
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Teaching methods

4 webinars
Independent work
Portfolio
Field visits

Student workload

Webinaarit 4 kpl 3x45 min ja niihin valmistautuminen 1 op
Itsenäinen opiskelu ja portfoliotyöskentely 4 op

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

For the passed performance you master the key concepts related to digitalisation.You recognize the effects and potentialities of digitaliaztion in your own field of expertise and you are capable of reflecting them based on evidence in a variety of ways. You possess the capability to reflect the idea of deploying digital methods and you are able to critically assess their deployment in the social services and health care sector.