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Overview
What you will study
The Medical Technologies in Digital Healthcare Transformation course offered by KTH Royal Institute of Technology offers an important preparation of students for taking role in digital health transformation.
The student, after the completion of the course, should be able to:
- Motivate the need for transformation in the current healthcare system.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the role of digitalization in such transformation process.
- Recognize the impact of medical technologies in digital health transformation
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of data-driven methods for improvement at the hospital
- Critically identify the opportunities and barriers for adoption of digital tools in a care environment
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Healthcare Transformation
- Precision Medicine
- Patient Centredness and Patient Engagement
- Evidence-Based Medicine,
- Patient safety
- High-Value Care
- Triple and Quadruple Aim of Healthcare
- Digitalization of Healthcare
- Health Data and Health Data Management
- PROMs and PREMs
- Lean and Six-sigma in healthcare
- Security, Privacy and GDPR
- Interoperability in Digital Healthcare
- Ethics in Digital Health
- Tools and Methods
- Business Intelligence
- Process-oriented Data Science
- Machine Learning and Data Visualization tools
- Social Media, challenges and Opportunities
- Usability and User Experience
- Medical Technology
- Fundamental of medical technology and digital health regulations
- Connected Medical Devices
- Real-Time Locations Systems
- Telemedicine, eHealth and mHealth
- Wearable technologies and consumer level health device
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
TOEFL® IBT 90
Credits
7 ECTS
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Health Sciences View 4 other Short Courses in Health Sciences in SwedenAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
TOEFL® IBT 90
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- B.Sc. degree in engineering or medical science (e.g. medical science or technology, engineering, applied physics, industrial management, entrepreneurship) or similar.
- Relevant documented Engineering or at least one year work experience.
- Swedish 3 and English B/English 6.
Technological requirements
- Participants should bring own laptops, tablets or other device with active internet connection.
Tuition Fee
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EU/EEA
FreeTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 0 SEK for the full programme during 2 months.
If you are an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen or hold a residence permit in Sweden for something other than studies you generally do not have to pay tuition fees.
Living costs for Stockholm
9668 - 17248 SEK /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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