Digital Health MSc - Curriculum

Healthcare Innovation and Digital Transformation:
Exploring the Latest Technologies in Medicine and Healthcare and Their Impact.  

Dr. Tal Soffer

Throughout this course, we will explore a variety of issues related to healthcare innovation and digital transformation. A detailed examination of the models and theories behind the introduction of innovation and digital transformation will be conducted, including Diffusion of Innovation Theory, TOE, UTAUT, and TAM. The course will also address the social perspective and responsible research and innovation (RRI), and comprehensively explores the challenges, obstacles, solutions, and incentives associated with innovation and digital transformation in health and medicine. During this course, students will gain a better understanding of the impact of healthcare innovations. Students will explore the social aspects, regulatory issues such as GDPR and AI directives, evaluation methods, and impact assessment of healthcare innovations. This course uses real-world industry case studies to demonstrate the practical applications and adoption challenges of various technologies in healthcare. Students will understand the capabilities, limitations, and potential impacts of these technologies on healthcare delivery. The course will also require students to analyze and present processes for implementing innovation and digital transformation in healthcare organizations, providing them with practical skills to manage these complex initiatives.

Engineering Design of Product Systems 

Prof. Yoram Reich

Engineering design is a collection of ideas, methods, tools, and thinking styles for identifying needs, problems, or challenges, cooperating with others to define them properly, developing conceptual solutions, examining them, and deciding how to proceed. These capabilities are the foundation of addressing any challenge we will encounter, whether personal or professional. Engineering design crosses the boundaries of people and disciplines. 
The course focuses on addressing health-related challenges embedded in their context. This demands that students go out of their comfort zone to think a-disciplinary. The course operates in a hybrid mode including students working in teams in class. 
Topics: What is a product system? Analysis of product failures, product development processes, and their properties, Quality function deployment (QFD), conceptual design, selection among alternatives (Pugh concept convergence, QFD, and AHP), failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), introduction to creativity and biomimicry, risk management, robust design.

Introduction to Medical Informatics  

Prof. Varda Shalev, Prof. Gabriel Chodick

Leveraging their vast experience as the founders of the Maccabi Healthcare Services research institute, this course provides an introduction to information systems in Israeli health organizations, the structure and functions of electronic health records, the use of computerized medical information for both medical treatment and research, and the historical development of medical informatics. It covers fundamental principles, concepts, and technological elements in health IT, along with its legal aspects and future directions.

Global Health policies and Services  

Dr. Anat Engel

The aim of this course is to expose students to various models of health policies around the globe and compare them to the Israeli health system. The structure as well as the advantages and challenges of each health system will be discussed. An emphasis will be made on budget policies and their implications on health services and new health reforms. In addition, the existing health insurances and their effect on patient's experience, quality of treatment, preventive medicine and health promotion, and nursing and geriatric services will be discussed.

Introduction of Digital Health Technology into Healthcare  

Dr. Michal Roll, Dr. Anat Boehm-Cagan

This course is structured to provide an in-depth examination of how digital health technologies are introduced and implemented into health care. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the capabilities and constraints associated with implementation of technologies, focusing on the regulatory process required worldwide. Additionally, students will delve into the role and application of data within healthcare organizations, exploring the complex interactions between information systems and organizational frameworks, as well as the interplay between these technologies and the medical and organizational landscape. The course will familiarize students with a range of principles involved in constructing sophisticated information systems and new technologies, including software as support systems, databases, etc. Students will learn from cases and will be required to analyze the total health technology life cycle requirements and risk assessment.