Description
Course Overview:The digitalization of the healthcare sector has been significantly slower than other sectors despite very large efforts in research, development, and implementation activities. Technology can fundamentally change routines and cultural norms in specific crisis situations. For instance, the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the digital health landscape by stimulating virtual care processes. When doctors’ offices and other care delivery services were forced to close or significantly reduce in-person service delivery, digital care became an essential part of the healthcare delivery response.
However, the absence of permanent changes in the informatics response to COVID-19 has reaffirmed one of the foundational problems in medical informatics – “the last mile problem.” This problem refers to the difficulty in implementing and integrating informatics models, tools, and approaches into care delivery settings to achieve meaningful outcomes. The last mile problem is central to health system transformation initiatives such as establishing true virtual care systems and not just digitizing single routines. Informatics models, tools, or theories alone will not transform healthcare delivery. At its core, informatics is an interdisciplinary activity that considers the expectations, goals, and barriers practitioners and consumers face when building person-centered and virtual therapeutic relationships. Technology needs to foster and enrich these relationships.
A key contributor to the last mile problem is a poor understanding of the contextual system where HIT is implemented and used. HIT cannot be implemented without due consideration of the contextual environment where it will be used. As informatics professionals, we must actively address the technology infrastructure, capabilities of care organizations, clinicians' competencies, and consumers' digital health literacy.
This Ph.D. course will present international research that contributes to understanding the main problem areas and discuss the development of methods to overcome the “last mile problem.” Throughout this course, international clinician-investigators and world-recognized informatics researchers will present their work and insights during morning didactic sessions. The students will present their research ideas and activities to this international forum in the afternoons. Faculty will provide feedback, guidance, and recommendations for developing student work, mapping a fruitful research arc, and building their portfolio.
Program Learning Objectives
• Provide an overview of enabling technologies and factors influencing healthcare service virtualization.
• Apply Systems Theory to analyze complex issues in health systems.
• Describe methods for conducting sociotechnical analysis of a complex adaptive system.
• Describe information system skills clinicians need to master to deliver value-based care in a virtualized care environment.
• Describe and use evidence-based methods to communicate with citizens on health issues.
• Describe the role of including patient-reported outcomes in safety and quality research.
Faculty:
1. Christian Nøhr, PhD, Professor
Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
2. Kasper Trolle Elmholdt, PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
3. Jeppe Eriksen, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
4. Arild Faxvaag, MD, PhD, Professor
Dept of Neuromed and Movement Sciences, Norwegian Univ of Sci & Tech, Norway
5. Juell Homco, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Informatics, University of Oklahoma, United States
6. Lars Kayser, MD, PhD, Professor
Department of Public Health, Univ of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
7. Craig Kuziemsky, PhD, Professor
Associate Vice-President, Research, MacEwan University, Alberta, Canada
8. Blake Lesselroth, MD, MBI, Associate Professor
Depts of Med Inform and Internal Med, University of Oklahoma, United States
9. Helen Monkman, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor
School of Health Information Science, Univ of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
10. Johanna Viitanen, DSc(Tech), Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
11. Sidsel Villumsen, PhD, Organizational Consultant
Human Resources Development, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
12. Ditte Weber, PhD, Post Doc
Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
13. Kristina Tornbjerg Eriksen, PhD
Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
| Aikajakso | 14 toukok. 2024 → 16 toukok. 2024 |
|---|---|
| Tapahtuman tyyppi | Course |
| Sijainti | Aalborg, TanskaNäytä kartalla |
| Tunnustuksen arvo | International |