How to go about designing a new MSc in eHealth

1. Presented To
Imperial College London
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
MSc in eHealth
Presented By Dr Sepe Sehati
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2. eHealth
“The knowledge, skills and tools which enable
information to be collected, managed, used and
shared to support the delivery of healthcare and
to promote health.”
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3. The Questions
1. How would I design a new Masters in
eHealth?
2. What would the programme look like?
3. Who would it be for?
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4. The Design
• A new service adding value to and
complementing existing services at a
successful company.
• Listen to & fully comprehend the
Department’s vision, strategy and objectives
pertaining to this new course.
• Use insight from a mini business plan to
amongst other things - reduce risk,
understand the competition, provide
direction, ensure industry relevance and
effective and efficient use of resources.
• Clearly identify & communicate the Masters’
Unique Selling Point. 4

5. The Design
• Design today for tomorrow’s students.
• Apply disruptive technologies.
• Develop and maintain Social Media
Marketing channels.
• Regularly revisit and fine tune the BP.
• Apply Business Analytics.
• Develop proactive “Customer” Relationship
Management protocols.
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6. The Design
The Ultimate Objective:
To produce exceptionally competent
Masters level graduates with high
quality training in the broad
interdisciplinary area that spans
eHealth.
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7. The Design
The Ultimate Objective:
Highly skilled practitioners and
translators who can foster cooperation
between clinicians, computer scientists,
and administrators.
CULTURE - - - PERSUASION - - -
DIPLOMACY
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8. The Programme
Modules:
• Health Informatics - including current trends
such as technologies to support personal
health outside of clinical settings, wellness
programmes and decision support tools
• Databases
• Medical statistics & Health Analytics –
including Visualisation
• Telemedicine and Telecare
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9. The Programme
Modules:
• Population Health – including data mining &
epidemiological analysis
• Health Behaviours, Disease Prevention and
Management
• Leadership, Organizational Behaviour, and
Change Management
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10. The Programme
Delivery:
• Our cutting-edge teaching models and
techniques enable our students to combine
this course with an existing career or
personal commitments.
• The course can be studied full-time or part-
time and is mostly delivered via online
blended learning. Additionally students are
required to attend a number of in-house
blocks each semester.
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11. The Programme
Delivery:
• The successful completion of an MSc
requires the completion of 180 credits, a
postgraduate diploma 120 credits and a
postgraduate certificate 60 credits.
• We offer further flexibility to students who
can not initially commit to the full MSc
programme by enabling them to enrol on
individual Modules as Continuing Education
students. Their credits can then be used
when they are ready to commit to the MSc
programme.
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12. The Programme
Delivery:
• MSc (180 credits):
Involves both taught and research elements.
For the taught element six 15 credit Modules
are studied together with a 30 credit Module
on Research Techniques & Methodology.
The research element involves completion of
a 60 credit Dissertation Project.
• Postgraduate Diploma ( 120 credits):
The same as the MSc but does not require
the completion of a Dissertation Project.
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13. The Programme
Delivery:
• Postgraduate Certificate ( 60 credits):
Awarded on the successful completion of any
four 15 credit Modules.
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14. The Prospective Students
The degree background of potential
students is likely to be:
• Business
• Management
• Science
• Medicine
• Engineering
• Technology
• Economics
• Humanities
• Mathematics
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15. The Prospective Students
The course also provides excellent
career development prospects for
clinicians, managers, administrators
and technologists for example:
• General Practitioners
• Hospital doctors & nurses
• Community based health and social care
professionals
• Managers (hospital and other health care
related)
• Directors of nursing/medical directors
• ICT Professionals
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16. “An ounce of prevention
is worth a pound of cure.”
Benjamin Franklin
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