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Taipei Medical University

Telemedicine: Tools to Support Growth Disorders in a Post-COVID Era

Taipei Medical University via FutureLearn

Overview

Improve your digital literacy to address eHealth for growth disorders

With the combination of COVID-19 and the rise of new technologies, telemedicine has become essential in providing healthcare. Doctors and health practitioners can use technology to deliver care to patients at a distance, but it requires a level of digital literacy.

On this four-week course, you’ll learn how to improve digital literacy in diagnosis management. In particular, you’ll examine the ways eHealth can support individuals with growth disorders based on case studies from pediatric patients requiring growth hormone treatment.

This course will help you improve your knowledge and confidence in using eHealth and telemedicine to support clinical decision-making.

Explore the challenges and opportunities in eHealth

At all stages of the patient journey, eHealth tools can have a significant impact. You’ll discover various digital tools as you build your knowledge on the evaluation and management of growth disorders.

You’ll explore the best practices for utilising eTools and data science to manage growth disorders in children and adolescents.

Considering the viewpoints of caregivers, patients, and health care providers, you’ll identify challenges, opportunities, and solutions in eHealth to better understand its role in clinical care.

Understand chronic disease management with Taipei Medical University

You’ll learn alongside experts at TMU to research the long-term impact of digital health in managing growth disorders.

You’ll examine factors such as usability, impact on quality of life, and implementation strategies, and understand how to apply this knowledge to broader chronic disease management.

By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills and confidence to start implementing telemedicine techniques into your practice.

Please note – Spanish subtitles are available

This course is designed for those with experience and an interest in growth disorders.

Whether you’re a student, doctor, or pediatric endocrinologist, this course is designed to help you learn more about digital health.

Syllabus

  • eHealth in diagnosis and management of growth disorders
    • Welcome to the Course
    • Roadmap for Diagnosis and Management of Growth Disorders
    • eHealth and its application
  • Research in eHealth in the management of growth disorders
    • Digital Health Research in Growth Disorders
    • Child Health Technology Development
    • Implementation of eHealth for management of Growth Disorders
  • Strategies to foster engagement and collaboration to support the development of e-health tools
    • Co-design and Co-creation in Digital Health
    • Gamification for Health Behavioral Change
    • Discussion: Proposing an idea for a Digital Health Tool
  • Patient to health care provider communication in the digital era. Personalisation behavioral support. Future directions
    • Technology Mediated Communication
    • Digital Tools for Well-being
    • Designing a Personalized Reflection Program
    • Assessment Time

Taught by

Shabbir Syed-Abdul

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