Current Models of Technology in Healthcare Delivery

Gain a structured understanding of how healthcare systems are organized, how clinical workflows function, and how digital technologies are integrated into care delivery. This module explores digital transformation in European healthcare systems, including electronic health records, telemedicine, AI-driven clinical decision support, wearable technologies, and the barriers that shape implementation in practice.

Key Facts

Qualification

5 ECTS credits 
upon successful completion of the module exam

Course start

Spring 2027

Duration

tba

Course location

Online

Course format

Hybrid: synchronous and asynchronous study

Credit points

5 ECTS

Language

English

Course fee

€1,668

This module is designed for professionals who want to understand how digital technologies are integrated into healthcare delivery and how digital transformation affects clinical workflows, healthcare systems, and stakeholder collaboration.

It is particularly suitable for:

• Professionals in healthcare, MedTech, digital health, and medical technology
• Managers, project leads, and specialists involved in digital transformation initiatives
• Professionals working with electronic health records, telemedicine, AI-driven systems, or wearable health technologies
• Clinicians, healthcare managers, and industry professionals who want to better understand digital health adoption in European healthcare systems
• Professionals interested in the organizational, economic, ethical, and regulatory factors that influence technology implementation in healthcare

The module is especially relevant for those who want to assess digital healthcare tools not only from a technical perspective, but also in relation to workflows, reimbursement, infrastructure, stakeholder needs, and implementation barriers.

The module provides students with a foundational understanding of how healthcare systems are organized, how clinical workflows function, and how digital technologies are integrated into care delivery. Students examine the current landscape of digital transformation in European healthcare systems and explore how established workflows interact with emerging digital tools.

The module introduces key technologies in digital healthcare, including electronic health records, telemedicine, AI-driven clinical decision support, and wearable health devices. Students evaluate their benefits, limitations, and practical implications for care coordination, efficiency, patient outcomes, and stakeholder collaboration.

Further topics include barriers to digital health adoption, such as fragmented infrastructures, interoperability challenges, cost pressures, reimbursement structures, ethical questions, and resistance to change. Students also compare minimally, typically, and highly digitized healthcare systems to understand how context affects implementation success.

Curriculum at a Glance

Healthcare Systems & Workflows: healthcare system organization, clinical workflows, care delivery structures, digital maturity levels
Digital Health Technologies: electronic health records, telemedicine, AI-driven clinical decision support, wearable health devices
Implementation & Barriers: interoperability, infrastructure limitations, reimbursement, health technology assessment, resistance to change
Stakeholder Perspectives: policymakers, patients, citizens, clinicians, managers, industry, and startups
International Comparison: EU healthcare systems, digital readiness, regulatory environments, and uneven digital transformation

Content

The module covers current models of technology use in healthcare delivery, with a focus on European healthcare systems. Students learn how digital tools are integrated into partially digitized care environments and how digital transformation affects clinical workflows, organizational structures, and stakeholder expectations.

A further component is the analysis of digital healthcare technologies. Students examine electronic health records, telemedicine, AI-driven systems, and wearable technologies, while critically assessing their advantages, limitations, and potential impact on patient care and system efficiency.

The module also addresses the practical and structural barriers that influence digital health adoption. These include ethical questions related to AI, reimbursement models, health technology assessment, fragmented infrastructures, interoperability challenges, and the gap between successful pilot projects and sustainable large-scale implementation.

Qualifications

Participants who successfully complete the module will be awarded 5 ECTS points. The credit points are awarded after passing the module examination.

The general admission requirements set out in the examination regulations must be met. In preparation for face-to-face events, literature recommendations may be provided. The content of this literature may be assumed as prior knowledge or should be acquired during the module.