Digital Health Bachelors Degree (Honours) - 595

• Gain an understanding of information technology (IT) essentials within the field of digital health, including systems analysis, software development, networking, operating systems, user interface design and databases.
• Actively engage in experimenting with digital health devices, such as wearable devices, and use creativity to analyze and visualize data to optimize the delivery of health care.
• Use information technology such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence to improve health care systems.
• Learn programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, C# and PHP, as well as Unity, to create and use mobile health apps, electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs).
• Study in our state-of-the-art labs in our mHealth & eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC).
• Learn from case studies and presentations based on projects from Mohawk College’s mHealth & eHealth Development & Innovation Centre (MEDIC).
• Benefit from small class sizes in a practical hands-on learning environment while obtaining a degree in the cutting-edge field of digital health.
• Work closely with faculty and industry professionals that have prior experience in the digital health field.
• Collaborate and learn by participating in stimulating industry projects which will allow you to gain valuable research, collaboration and critical thinking skills.
• Apply digital health essentials to the Canadian Healthcare system with a focus on the systems, supports and tools used in the province of Ontario.
• Understand patient safety, personalized health delivery, self-management and behaviour modification.
• Apply research methods and statistics in an applied research project where you will have the chance to work with industry partners and professionals.

What you will learn:

Digital Health Essentials and Technologies

• Develop health information technology solutions such as organizing and protecting patient information (medical history, test results, symptoms, etc.).
• Design digital health systems such as telehealth (a service that provides health advice at-a-distance) and telemedicine (a remote clinical service that provides personalized medicine).

Visual Data Representation

• Create data visualizations, such as charts, infographics, maps and diagrams.
• Use data analytics to help build visual data representations, predictive models of disease transmission and treatment outcomes to inform doctor/patient decision making.
• Learn how to understand and interpret data, with the goal of:
  • Making data engaging and easily digestible
  • Identifying trends and outliers within a set of data
  • Telling a story found within the data
  • Supporting a theory or treatment plan highlighting the important parts of a set of data

Digital Health Devices

• Use and monitor wearable devices for real-time health care applications and monitoring, such as:
  • Physical activity
  • Diet management
  • Symptom tracker
  • Medical emergencies
  • Blood pressure
  • Glucose (blood-sugar) level, etc.
• Explore Canadian privacy laws to understand how both patients and medical professionals can securely store and share information gathered from digital health devices.

Mobile Health Apps

• Create database-driven web applications for a healthcare context.
• Learn how to use smart-related body wear, patches, clothes and on-demand drug release.
• Safely store and exchange electronic health records.

Management of healthcare records, systems and processes

• Learn how healthcare devices, products, technologies or systems can securely exchange and use information from one or more sources (Medical Device Interoperability).
• Study cybersecurity processes used to protect patients—both their privacy and their safety.
• Find out more about the organizations and industry standards related to the privacy and security of personal health information and records including:
  • Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
  • Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)
  • Personal Information Protection laws
  • Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

Digital Health and Sustainability

• Learn how digital health is creating solutions through green technologies to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
• Implement green cloud computing to provide greater energy efficiency, scalability and elasticity for computing resources.

Digital Health in the province of Ontario

• Gain knowledge surrounding eHealth Ontario, an electronic health record information system.
• Apply your skills through work experience at a healthcare organization such as St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Digital Health and experiential learning

• Complete over 600 hours of practical labs in our state-of-the-art computing, networking, devices and simulation labs.
• Complete one or more work experience with an organization in the field.
• Benefit from our collaboration with Mohawk's MEDIC research centre that specializes in the development of digital health solutions.

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