3 ECTS credits
75 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4023453ANR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Voor dit opleidingsonderdeel uit de Master Farmaceutische Zorg en Geneesmiddelenontwikkeling moet je geslaagd zijn voor minstens 120 ECTS uit de Bachelor Farmaceutische Wetenschappen EN moet je geslaagd zijn voor alle opleidingsonderdelen van het eerste jaar en het tweede jaar van de bachelor FW EN moet je geslaagd of ingeschreven zijn voor alle opleidingsonderdelen van het derde jaar van de bachelor FW
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
- Department
- Public Health Sciences
- Educational team
- Pieter Cornu
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 6 contact hours Lecture
10 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
eHealth is characterized by the use of information and communication technologies to improve patient healthcare.
This course focuses on the Belgian eHealth infrastructure and how it is used by pharmacists and patients.
Topics included in the course:
- What is eHealth?
- Action plan eHealth
- eHealth platform, eHealthBox (exchange of medical patient data between heathcare providers), MyCareNet, Sumehr (Summarized Electronic Health Record), Recip-e (digital prescriptions) and the integration of these tools in the pharmacy software
- Vitalink medication scheme
- Electronic medical record in the hospital setting
- Standards, coding and terminology in healthcare
- Clinical decision support
- Patient access to personal health data
- mHealth: tools and apps
- GDPR in the pharmacy context including informed consent, data security and encryption
- Databases and digital reference sources for pharmacists
- MDR (medical device regulation) with focus on software as medical device
- Artificial intelligence in healthcare
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) :
- Additional info
none
- Learning Outcomes
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General competencies
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- search, select and use the most appropriate IT tools for lifelong learning, research and pharmaceutical practice
- explain how IT can help in optimizing the effectiveness, quality and safety in healthcare and be able to identify remaining challenges
- estimate the impact of eHealth in medical practice
- explain the Belgian eHealth infrastructure and how to use it
- give an overview of the underlying technologies, architecture and stakeholders in the Belgian eHealth domain
- give advice to patients about eHealth tools
- communicate with patients and healthcare providers via specific eHealth tools
- explain and use the best practices of GDPR and e-safety to guarantee patient data integrity and confidentiality, and explain and use the privacy legislation on patient data
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Rapport en presentatie
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Presence during the WPO is obligatory. When an absence cannot be justified, the student will be excluded from participation in the exam and the complete course has to be retaken the following academic year.
The evaluation consists of the assignment of the WPO.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Pharmaceutical Care: Standaard traject NIEUW (only offered in Dutch)