Digital in Health and Social Care
Learn about the various types of digital health and how technology is used across our health and social care to benefit service users.
Less than 30 minutes
The Importance of Prescribing Digital Health
Format: eLearning
Duration: 20 minutes
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: Yes
Description: In this course you will find out how you can recommend digital health products, such as apps, to patients and people who use your services. You will also learn how you can track the digital health products you recommend, and why it’s important to track what you recommend.
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Using Technology to Support Person-Centred Care
Format: eLearning
Duration: 25 minutes
Audience: Beginners in Adult Social Care
Account creation/sign in required: Yes (Skills for Care account)
Description: eLearning to help you understand the role and benefits of technology in delivering person-centred care. The module covers how to help people access care and support to make decisions and choices in using technology and the importance of digital social care records (DSCRs) in delivering person-centred care.
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Between 30 minutes to 1 hour
Introduction to Digital Health
Format: eLearning
Duration: 50 minutes
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: Yes
Description: Find out what digital health is and how you can check that digital health products, such as apps, are safe for you to recommend. Explore a safe way to make digital health product recommendations to patients and people who use your services.
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Overview of eHealth
Format: Webpage
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Audience: Beginners in Nursing
Account creation/sign in required: Yes (RCN membership)
Description: Explore the topic of eHealth – also known as digital health – and how it supports health care. Discover why it is vital that nursing staff play a role in keeping up with digital technology to meet the needs of the profession, patients and health care.
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Every Nurse an eNurse
Format: eLearning
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Audience: Beginners in Nursing
Account creation/sign in required: Yes (RCN membership)
Description: Designed with leading experts from the RCN’s eHealth forum, this course looks at the ways technologies are changing health and social care. Find out how patients and nurses can use new digital and data technologies for better care.
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Medical Devices Level 1: General Awareness
Format: eLearning
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: Yes (Turas Learn account)
Description: This module is aimed at all health and social care staff, and covers the key elements that all staff should know about medical devices and using them safely.
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Medical Devices Level 2: Your Responsibilities for Medical Devices
Format: eLearning
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Audience: Intermediate
Account creation/sign in required: Yes (Turas Learn account)
Description: This module is aimed at all staff who frequently use or provide medical devices as part of their role and will cover more in depth information including what they should know about a device prior to use.
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Between 1 and 2 hours
Using Technology and Digital Devices to Make a Positive Impact on Health and Wellbeing for People Experiencing Care
Format: PDF document
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Audience: Beginners in Care
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A guide to highlight good practice that supports good outcomes, helps care services, their staff and Care Inspectorate staff to achieve positive experiences of digital technology and to support care providers to better understand and offer good quality digital engagement.
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Digital Occupational Therapy
Format: Webpage
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Audience: Beginners in Occupational Therapy
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: Guidance for staff in occupational therapy on the different aspects of digital, including where to start, clinical safety and digital inclusion.
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More than 1 hour
eHealth: More Than Just an Electronic Record
Format: eLearning
Duration: 12 hours
Audience: Intermediate
Account creation/sign in required: Yes
Description: This course aims to equip the global audience of health clinicians, students, managers, administrators, and researchers to reflect on the overall impact of eHealth on the integration of care. It explores the breadth of technology application, current and emerging trends, and showcases both local and international eHealth practice and research.
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Introduction to Developing Competencies for Digital Clinical Practice
Format: eLearning
Duration: Up to 5 hours
Audience: Beginners in Psychology
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: This course aims to enable safe and effective digital clinical practice by introducing digital clinical practice skills for pre- and post-registration applied psychologists and psychological practitioners.
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Introduction to Digital Health
Format: eLearning
Duration: 31 hours
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: This course introduces the field of digital health and the key concepts and definitions in this emerging field. The key topics include Learning Health Systems and Electronic Health Records and various types of digital health technologies to include mobile applications, wearable technologies, health information systems, telehealth, telemedicine, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data.
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