Course description
The health care systems in Europe and the US are challenged by demographic changes with an increasing number of elderly citizens with chronic disease and a substantial staff shortage in both primary and secondary care. Therefore, governments and health care institutions are focusing on digital technologies and moving hospital services to the patient’s home.
On this basis, the aim of our 2027 PhD course is to give the students an understanding of research methods used in the transformation of brick-and-mortar hospital-based services into home care, home monitoring, and Hospital@Home through digital health technologies and organizational change. In addition, the course will introduce research methods used to study AI, clinical robotics and other digital health technologies.
Thus, PhD students will gain knowledge of relevant research methods, including their strengths and limitations, for studying the design, implementation, and effects of digital health technologies and associated organizational development. During the course the students will examine the possibilities for using the methods in their own PhD project.
The course focuses on interdisciplinary research methods, involvement of patients, relatives and health care professionals in design of new digital services, organizational challenges, assessment of effectiveness of technologies and have an interdisciplinary faculty and students from medicine, psychiatry, nursing, health policy, health economics, engineering, etc.
The course is relevant for PhD students with interest in research in design, implementation and assessment of home care, home monitoring, and Hospital@Home through digital health technologies and organizational change, AI and clinical robots.
Odense University Hospital is leading in European research and practical use of digital health technologies. During all days, clinicians from the hospital will participate and present examples of the use of digital health technologies in clinical practice. In addition, all days will involve group work, and students will give a presentation on the last day of the course and present their use of the scientific disciplines described during the course in their own research project.
The course is organized in collaboration with Transatlantic Digital Health Network (TDRN) and involves researchers from Danish and US universities including UC Berkeley and UC Davis.
Intended learning outcome
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand research methods used in transformation of brick-and-mortar hospital-based services into home care, home monitoring, and Hospital@Home through digital health technologies and organizational change.
- Understand research methods used to study clinical AI, clinical robotics and other digital health technologies.
- Understand strengths and weaknesses of research methods used for design, implementation and evaluation of the effects of digital health technologies, including arguments for involvement of patients and health care professionals in research, arguments for selection of implementation methods, typical barriers and facilitators in implementation of Hospital@Home, and arguments for selection of outcome measures etc. in evaluation.
- Select and apply relevant research methods for design, implementation or evaluation of effects of digital health technologies for their own thesis project.
Faculty
- Professor Kristian Kidholm, CIMT, SDU, Denmark
- Professor Birthe Dinesen, Laboratory for Digital Health, Neural Engineering and Neurophysiology, AAU, Denmark
- Professor Jane Clemensen, CIMT, SDU, Denmark
- Professor Nick Anderson, University of California, Davis, USA
- Professor Kathy Kim, Managing director, UC Berkeley CITRIS Health
- Associate professor Helle Spindler, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Invited Speakers
- Professor James Marcin, Director at Center for Health and Technology, UC Davis Health, USA
- Professor Anthony Smith, Director at Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland, Australia
- Professor Karen Andersen-Ranberg, Geriatrics, SDU, Denmark
- Associate professor Thomas Lund, CIMT, Hematology, Denmark
- Associate professor Kristina Garne Holm, SDU, Denmark
- Assistent professor Maja Kjær Poulsen, CIMT, SDU, Denmark
- PhD student, MD, Kristian Bach Laursen-Kidhol
Course fee
The course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled in Universities that have joined the Open market agreement and NorDoc.
For other participants there is a course fee of
DKK 2200
EUR 294