Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Through interdisciplinary collaboration, digital health innovation is analysed and developed based on a scientific and/or practical problem. 

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Understand the factors that influence the design, development and implementation of digital health solutions in the healthcare sector.  

• Explain the use of digital health solutions in a concrete organizational context through insight into different methods. 

Skills

• Identify a scientific or authentic problem through relevant empirical evidence.  

• Identify and apply a relevant study design and method(s) in relation to identified scientific or authentic issues in relation to digital health. 

• Critically apply relevant scientific methods and tools. 

• Communicate the contribution of the student's own work relative to established knowledge in the specific research field  

• Discuss the results of the project work, reflecting upon the quality of the work, i.e. limitation, boundary conditions, implications of the methods used. 

Competences

• Demonstrate ability to assess, and contribute with, solutions to digital health issues based on scientific work.  

• Discuss own contributions and results in relation to existing knowledge about design, development and implementation of a solution to a digital health challenge.  

• Assess and reflect on the choice of methods in the project work in relation to the project's results. 

• Able to independently take responsibility for own professional development and specialization. 

• Able to independently initiate and facilitate collaboration within digital health and appoint relevant partners. 

• Be able to navigate and control complex, unpredictable situations that require adaptation and innovation. 

Type of instruction

In semester 4, the Master Project is the only study activity. In this problem-based project the students will analyze a focused scientific and/or practical problem and develop a solution that addresses the identified problem. 

The results of the project work should be documented in a project report or a scientific paper. The project can be carried out in teams of up to 3 participants.

Exam

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