ASSESSMENT 1: INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT (40%)

ASSESSMENT 1: INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT (40%)

An individual assignment equivalent to 1500 words (+/- 10%). It will address SILO 2 and 4.

SILO 2: Identify the implications of digitising health for health professionals working in the Australian Healthcare System, including technologies currently in use.

SILO 4: Identify the technological, clinical, social, legal, and ethical impacts of the digitisation of health care.

AIM: To explore how digitisation of health may impact a health professionals delivery of primary healthcare and the consumer-clinician relationship, and to investigate the impact of one type of digitisation of health for professionals from the following perspectives: technological, clinical, social, legal, and ethical.

End Product: An article presenting the case for why, or why not, the Health Service Provider should proceed with developing your product/service, based upon your survey feedback and the technological, clinical, social, legal, and ethical impacts of this technology.

SCENARIO

You are a newly graduated health professional [students choice from the list below]:

Dietician OR

Exercise physiologist OR

Psychologist OR

Pharmacist OR

Physiotherapist OR

Audiologist OR

Practice Manager ORstudents choice by negotiation with facilitator.

You currently work for Rayleighs market research company which has been commissioned by a Health Service Provider to explore the views and experiences of health professionals and the general public to a range of new digital health technologies/services in order to inform the companys service provision priorities. That is, what services/technologies which will give the health service provider the best return (in terms of client numbers, service, and efficiencies). This is your last project prior to starting your career as a health professional. You must:

PART A (800 words)

Investigate the key technological, clinical, social, legal, and ethical issues for your chosen digital health technology (choose one: Robotics, Wearable Devices, The Internet, Telehealth, AI*) as background to collecting views on this technology. You must include research on the impacts of the chosen technology on your chosen discipline (or health professional) from technological, clinical, social, legal, and ethical perspectives.

PART B (500 words)

Design a survey with 10 questions and gather responses from 10 participants (minimum), analyse the results, integrate the results into your article for presentation to the Chief Executive Officer and the Board of your client (Health Service Provider). Your survey needs to cover the following areas;Demographics of the participants - limited to questions around sex/gender; age group; location (e.g. state, country, and rural or metro); and whether they work/have previously worked in the health field;DO NOT collect name, date of birth, specific age, address, phone number, post code, employment agencies, or any other identifiable information.

Participants understanding of the term digital health;Previous participant experience with a range of digital health technologies; and

Specific questions customised to the participants understanding, opinion and/or beliefs of the assigned digital product/service and its impact on the delivery of healthcare by professionals and the consumer-clinician relationship.

PART C (200 words)

Present a case for why, or why not, the Health Service Provider should proceed with developing this product/service, based upon your research on the technological, clinical, social, legal, and ethical impacts of this technology for your chosen discipline (or health professionals) and your survey results.

*Note: EHR and MyHR are not options because they have been covered extensively in the workshops and online.Mobile Apps are not options because they will be assessed in Assessment 2.

REFERENCES AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Your assessment should include relevant in-text citations. Your last page should present a complete reference list. Use one referencing style consistently. All definitions, concepts, ideas, quotes, and all material you have used to inform your work must be referenced.

AI tools cannot be used in this assessment. You are permitted to use dictionaries, thesauri, spelling, and grammar-checking software to help identify and correct spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. However, cannot not use any software to rewrite sentences or make substantive changes to your original text.

FORMAT AND SUBMISSION

You must assume that you are writing for the online magazine Pulse IT for your discipline (that is your audience). You can use the same language, but we expect academic writing e.g. sources, references, formal language.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUBMIT: A Microsoft word file with your Pulse-IT article

HOW TO SUBMIT: Via the LMS Drop Box

HELP AND SUPPORT

Workshops during weeks 3, 4, 5 & 6 will cover topics that will assist in your assessment:

Session Learning Focus and Activities

Session Week Learning Focus and Activities Contact hours

3 12/08/2024-16/08/2024 Electronic health record in healthcare delivery Creating and evaluating survey questions 2

4 19/08/2024-23/08/2024 Technological, clinical, social, legal, and ethical impacts of DH for the professional Designing and critiquing online surveys 2

5 26/08/2024-30/08/2024 Common Health Apps for healthcare professionals Analysing and presenting survey data 2

6 02/09/2024-06/09/2024 Evaluating Health Apps from a Clinical Perspective Critiquing articles 2

PULSE-IT ARTICLE CRITERIA & MARKING GRID

CRITERION ExceptionalAt top of expectations for course and year level performance. Excellent

A very high academic standard. Very Good

A very good academic standard.

Good

Meets and surpasses some course and year level performance requirements. Satisfactory

A satisfactory academic standard for course and year level performance requirements.

Fair

Needs some improvement: below minimum academic standard required in course and year level.

Poor

Well below minimum required academic performance standard for course and year level.

Length 1500 words (+/- 10%)(10 marks) Report is concise and informative. Exceptional work.

Excellent use of the word allowance across all sections. Very good use of the word allowance between sections. Good use of the word allowance between sections. Includes irrelevant detail and/or misses essential points but meets word length. Too short or too long: misses essential points. Poor use of available word length.

Too short or too long: excessive or irrelevant material, or redundancies.

Written skills:Clarity of expression for genre of writing (PULSE IT article)(10 marks) Excellent and advanced use of language.

Concise and extremely well written, grammatical article for Pulse IT. Fluid and succinct writing style.

Wellwritten, grammatical article for Pulse IT with correct spelling and punctuation. Wellwritten, grammatical article for Pulse IT. Generally appropriate language.

Adequate article for Pulse IT however lacks required formality (language).

Some syntax and spelling errors. Writing requires some practice. Some grammatical and/or spelling or usage errors that hinder readers comprehension. Errors in writing, spelling, grammar and/or use of language that prevent readers comprehension or are inappropriate for a Pulse IT article.

Written skills: Logical structure & signposting

(10 marks) Comprehensive structure with exceptional use of signposting. The content is systematically structured. Excellent use of signposting. Content is carefully structured. Very good use of signposting. The content is well-organized and coherent. Good use of signposting. Reasonable flow of information. Satisfactory use of signposting. Logical flow of information not always apparent. Refinements needed in signposting. Flow of information illogical. Signposting missing or illogical.

Part A.1: Investigation into chosen technology

(10 marks) Comprehensive investigation and discussion of all outlined issues of your technology. Outstanding investigation and discussion of all outlined issues of your technology. Very good investigation and discussion of all outlined issues of your technology. Thorough investigation and discussion of all outlined issues of your technology. Addresses basic (mandatory) requirements. Superficial reporting: limited discussion and/or investigation. Does not address and/or explain specified technology as required.

Part A.2: Investigation into chosen discipline

(10 marks) Comprehensive investigation into the impacts of the chosen technology on your chosen discipline. Outstanding investigation into the impacts of the chosen technology on your chosen discipline. Very good investigation into the impacts of the chosen technology on your chosen discipline. Thorough investigation into the impacts of the chosen technology on your chosen discipline. Addresses basic (mandatory) requirements. Superficial reporting: limited discussion and/or investigation. Does not address and/or explain specified discipline as required.

Part A.3: Investigation into technological, clinical, social, legal, ethical impacts(10 marks) Comprehensive investigation and discussion of all outlined Impacts. Outstanding investigation and discussion of all outlined Impacts. Very good investigation and discussion of all outlined Impacts. Thorough examination and discussion of all specified impacts. Addresses basic (mandatory) requirements. Superficial reporting: limited discussion and/or investigation. Does not address and/or explain specified impacts as required.

Part B.1: Survey design

(10 marks) Comprehensive survey covering all required areas with 10 concise and unambiguous questions. Excellent survey covering all required areas with 10 concise and unambiguous questions. Well-written survey questions covering all required areas. Clear survey questions covering all required items. Ten questions cover all required areas but are unclear and ambiguous at times. Required areas not covered and minimal attempt to write clear questions. Survey too long/short. Required areas not covered and no attempt to write clear questions. Survey too long/short.

Part B.2: Data analysis and integration

(10 marks) Comprehensive analysis, integration and discussion of results for at least 10 participants. Excellent analysis, integration and discussion of results for at least 10 participants. Very good analysis, integration and discussion of results for at least 10 participants. Good analysis, integration and discussion of results for at least 10 participants. Acceptable analysis, integration and discussion of results for at least 10 participants. Does not show adequate analysis, integration and/or discussion of results. Does not show analysis, integration and/or discussion of results. Less than 10 participants.

PART C: Presentation of case with justification(10 marks) Outstanding recommendations and justifications skilfully linked to findings from Part A and Part B. Highly relevant recommendations with excellent justification based on findings from Part A and Part B. Relevant recommendations with good justifications based on findings from Part A and Part B. Sound recommendations with some relevant justification. Recommendations included with attempted justification. Minimal recommendations with minimal justification. Ineffective recommendations with no justification.

Resources and referencing

(10 marks) Outstanding identification and use of 25+ relevant resource material Referencing is consistently accurate. Excellent identification and use of 22-24 relevant resource material Referencing is consistently accurate. Good identification and use of 19-21 relevant resource material evident. Referencing is accurate. Broadbased identification and use of 16-18 relevant resource material. Good attempt at referencing. Use of at least 15 appropriate resource materials.

Referencing is mostly accurate; some errors. Minimal evidence of use of appropriate resource materials, and/or referencing is unsystematic. No evidence of use of appropriate resource materials, and/or referencing is absent.