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

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Content scheduling

The course starts with a preliminary assignment
Webinars
Learning portfolio work
Independent study
Self-assessment

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.

Competences of the course:
- Ethics
- Learning to learn
- Proactive development

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

Items of Assessment:
Learning portfolio and learning self assessment

Student Workload in Hours:
Online studies 40 h - Active participation in intensive days 20 h - Independent work (incl. Written assignments) 75 h Total 135 hours

Materials

Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö 2023. Digitaalisuus sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon kivijalaksi. Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon digitalisaation ja tiedonhallinnan strategia 2023-2035. Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriön julkaisuja 2023:32.
Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö. Kansallinen ikäohjelma vuoteen 2030: Tavoitteena ikäkyvykäs Suomi
Global strategy on digital health 2020-2025. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
Valtioneuvosto. 2022. Valtioneuvoston selonteko: Suomen digitaalinen kompassi. Valtioneuvoston julkaisuja 2022:65.
Kyberturvallisuus - Ohje sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon toimijoille (STM 2019)
Blek, T., Lahdenperä, E., & Lehosmaa, J. (2024). Sote-ammattilaisten kyberturvallisella toiminnalla varmistetaan asiakas- ja potilasturvallisuutta. Jamk Arena Pro. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:jamk-issn-2984-0783-104
Blek, T. & Solankallio-Vahteri, T. 2022. Terveydenhuollon hoitohenkilöstön tieto- ja kyberturvallisuusosaaminen. FinJeHeW 14 (4): 352-363.
Coventry, L., Branley-Bell, D., Sillence, E., Magalini, S., Mari, P., Magkanaraki, A. & Anastasopoulou, K. 2020. Cyber-Risk in Healthcare: Exploring Facilitators and Barriers to Secure Behaviour. HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust.
Sihvo, P. & Koski, A. (toim.) Eettinen toimintamalli - osaamista tulevaisuuden koulutukseen ja sote-alan työhön
Digiosallisuuden käsite ja keskeiset osa-alueet, Digiosallisuus Suomessa -hankkeen väliraportti (Hänninen, Karhinen, Korpela, Pajula, Pihlajamaa, Merisalo, Kuusisto, Taipale, Kääriäinen & Wilska 2021)
Sanmark, J. & Sanmark, E. 2024. Mitä tiedämme generatiivisen tekoälyn hyödyistä terveydenhuollossa? Duodecim. Mitä tiedämme generatiivisen tekoälyn hyödyistä terveydenhuollossa?
DigiFinland. Tekoäly hyvinvointialueilla: Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon käyttötapaukset ja kansallinen edistäminen. 2024. Esiselvitystyön loppuraportti maaliskuu 2024. https://digifinland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DigiFinland_tekoaly_loppuraportti_210324.pdf

+ topical, research-based material, to be announced during the course

Teaching methods

4 webinars
Independent work
Portfolio
Field visits

Exam schedules

There is no exam. The renewal of coursework is done in accordance with the examination regulations.

Completion alternatives

The course can be completed flexibly. Participation in webinars is voluntary. For all webinars, a lecture recording is available as an option. The course portfolio can be worked on either alone or with a partner.

Student workload

4 webinars 3x45 min and preparation for them 1 cr
Independent study and portfolio work 4 cr

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The general criteria of the competences that the Master's Degrees awarded by Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences provide can be found on JAMK's web pages (Competence Assessment | Jamk). The learning outcomes of individual courses are assessed in relation to the objectives of the course concerned. Assessment is based on knowledge, skills and competence in accordance with the National and European Qualifications Framework (NQF/EQF), level 7.

Pass:
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.

0 (Failed):
The student does not achieve the competence goals of the course