The ATHIKA project has created an interdisciplinary online course for the digital transformation of the eHealth sector. Focused on all the actors involved such as academia, public health administration, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs, and health business consultants. ATHIKA’s variety of partner profiles provides a comprehensive perspective of the sector and enables the identification of challenges in the health sector. These entities will guide and train students during the program.
This course will allow the student to establish the basis of the eHealth sector from a perspective of real challenges, as well as the technologies (Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning) that can be key to the evolution of the sector, always from a humanistic perspective and ethical reflection of the technological solution.
Within this course, students from the three different universities (La Salle Campus Barcelona – Ramon Llull University (URL) – Spain, University of West Scotland (UWS) – Scotland; and University of Tartu (UT) – Estonia) will work together in an interdisciplinary way.
Presentation of the ATHIKA online course and its itineraries
During the common part (February 2021), students will understand the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals identified by the UN, the importance of Digital Transformation and its importance in the Health Sector. Furthermore, in this first common part, they will learn how to define and tackle scenarios and challenges following the framework developed by the ATHIKA project.
In the second unit, they will learn the fundamentals of IoT, AI & ML and Governance & Ethics with the aim of knowing the general paradigm of the challenges of the eHealth sector.
In the third unit (March 2021), our students will take one of the three itineraries lead by each University.
Itineraries:
IoT in Healthcare (led by La Salle URL)
AI & Data Analytics in Healthcare (led by University of West Scotland)
Governance and Ethics of Health tech (led by University of Tartu)
The objective is to deeply study their discipline and apply it during the closing workshop.
During the final 2-day workshop, focused on their disciplines, some seminars, keynotes and panel sessions will be held. In addition, a challenge will be presented to solve it in a competition between students of the same discipline and university.
ATHIKA Project no. 601106-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-KA
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