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HDT4004
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Making Sense of Digital Technology in Healthcare
Period 2: from 27-10-2025 to 19-12-2025 (maandag 27 oktober 2025 tot vrijdag 19 december 2025)
Co-requisites:
None
Coordinator:
Hochstenbach, L.
ECTS credits:
3
Language of instruction:
English
Publication dates timetable/results in the Student Portal
Deadline publication timetable
The date on which the timetable of this module is available:
vrijdag 10 oktober 2025
Deadline publication final result
The date on which the final grade of this module is available: vrijdag 23 januari 2026
Resit booking
Exam booking for a test in current academic year (resit)
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Exam booking for a test from a previous academic year (exam only)
All students who have not passed the test for this module in a previous academic year, will be booked automatically for the test during the regular block period. You will be enrolled in the new course in Canvas but not scheduled for a tutorial group and other educational activities.
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Course information
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Description:
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EN:
The module ‘Making sense of digital technology in healthcare’ is the second module within the learning line Adoption of Digital Technology in Healthcare of the Master Health and Digital Transformation. The module builds around real-life digitalization developments and related realisation and implementation trajectories in healthcare. The development of informed tools, such as patient portals, virtual reality movies and shared decision-making digital tools are used as illustrative examples to challenge students to reflect on and apply the various lenses from the previously given module 2: The multimodality of a digital society. These challenges include real-life projects on supporting individuals (patients, health care personnel, clients or citizens) on lifestyle, health care or self management options, with the goal of providing high-quality and personalised healthcare solutions. The underlying notion is that the value of digital tools is determined by the sense-making it produces for those who are using the tool and/or are affected by the tool. For example, digital tools could have beneficial effects on processes and outcomes. A digital tool is not a goal in itself. It should build on the needs of the various stakeholders affected by it, including end users, organisations, (local) government, insurance companies, patient organisations. To clarify the crucial role of stakeholder involvement, students will be confronted with organising effective methods for stakeholder involvement, including citizen or patient participation, taking into account issues of inequity of underserved citizens or patients, e.g. due to low health literacy or/and low digital literacy. Barriers and facilitators of effective dissemination and implementation of digital innovations, such as ownership and care pathway integration, will also be discussed. Through these learning activities, students will gain a helicopter view of relevant approaches and health transformations to increase acceptability and impact of digital technology from a sense-making perspective of end-users (citizens, clients, patients, and professionals).
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Goals:
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EN:
The specific course objectives are; Expert The student is able to: ● Understand the term framing, ambidexterity, resistance, health equity and literacy. Able to describe and discuss innovation and implementation frameworks. ● Identify ethical and privacy concerns. Interprets and illustrates organisational and societal aspects facilitating and preventing digital use. Aware of cultural differences and how to influence policy. Investigator The student is able to: ● Use a prediction model and assess the outcome. Distinguishes different kinds of research approaches to study digitalization in healthcare. Able to summarise the pros and cons of a research design. ● Evaluate stakeholders’ interests in multiple dimensions and propose improvements towards results or course of development. Communicator The student is able to: Re-formulate a scientific piece of text into communication which is understandable for laymen, in the form of text and in the form of visuals.
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Key words:
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Sense-making, health literacy, implementation frameworks, organisational readiness, ethical considerations, patient participation, innovation implementation
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Literature:
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This is the link to Keylinks, our online reference list.
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Teaching methods:
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- Assignment(s)
- Work in workgroup(s)
- Lecture(s)
- Paper(s)
- Problem Based Learning
- Presentation(s)
- Working visit(s)
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Assessments methods:
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- Assignment
- Attendance
- Written exam
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This page was last modified on:dinsdag 18 april 2023
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