The Digital Environment in Health and Welfare Services and its Ethics and Regulations (5cr)
Study unit code
General information
- Credits
- 5 cr
Objective
The Student is able to
- understand basic health and social care informatics
- understand basic methods of technical informatics/computer science
- understand and apply principles of evidence-based practice and evidence based clinical pathways
- understand and apply legal knowledge of confidentiality, IT-security and patient data privacy and protection
Content
This study unit deals with health informatics and the general process of digitalization in health and welfare and the laws and regulations surrounding it. Partnership countries health and welfare environment, health and welfare informatics environment ex. Kanta services, Estonian X-RoadHow to store data, share data, refine data different databases. Ethics, laws and regulations and customer safety data privacy and security. Structural data, health and social classifications, the basic elements of support of decision making systems.