BMHP6026 Digital Transformation in The Health and Care Professions L6 Component 1: Written Report

BMHP6026 Module Learning Outcomes (from module syllabus)

Upon the successful completion of this module, the student should be able to:

• Evaluate contemporary digital transformations for professionals and service users within the health and care
• Investigate innovative digital technologies and devices and the impact upon communities and populations.

BMHP6026 TASK DESCRIPTION

Students are required to investigate one digital innovation (technology/device) that has been successfully implemented within Health and Social Care within the last 10 years.

Students must critically evaluate how this digital transformation has been implemented within health or social care with consideration to the following:

Workforce (consider areas such as changes in job roles, role competency) Service delivery (for example, how does the day to day service change?)

• Patient/Service user (how do technologies affect the patient in relation to their perceptions and experiences of their care?)
• Community (consider this in terms of patient and service location, effect on family members, co-production and public health).

Students can choose technological innovations from anywhere in the UK and must consider both positive and negative outcomes.

General Submission Guidance:

1. All of your written submissions must include a title page that clearly states your name, your student number, the module code and title, and your assignment title.
2. Written submissions should be typed in Arial font, size 11 with 1.5 line spacing.
3. The assignment should have an appropriate structure, include page numbers, with subtitles, written paragraphs to break up each of the sections.
4. The UWTSD's Harvard Referencing style should be applied for all in-text citations and references in your assignment.

BMHP6026 Guidance For Students in the completion of tasks

NOTE: The guidance offered below is linked to the five generic assessment criteria overleaf.

1. Engagement with Literature Skills

Your work must be informed and supported by scholarly material that is relevant to and focused on the task(s) set; you should make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources, where appropriate (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to the discipline). You should provide evidence that you have accessed a wide range of sources, which may be academic, governmental and industrial; these sources may include academic journal articles, textbooks, current news articles, organisational documents, and websites. You should consider the credibility of your sources; academic journals are normally highly credible sources while websites require careful consideration/selection and should be used sparingly. Any sources you use should be current and up- to-date, mostly published within the last five years or so, though seminal/important works in the field may be older. You must provide evidence of your research/own reading throughout your work, using a suitable referencing system, including in-text citations in the main body of your work and a reference list at the end of your work.

Guidance specific to this assessment:

• Students should demonstrate a wide range of reading, with consistent use of a minimum of 10 references, from a variety of sources including reports, textbooks, academic journals, and reliable websites. All sources should be reliable, credible and current.
• All arguments should be supported by evidence using in-text citations and references following the UWTSD Harvard Referencing style.

2. Knowledge and Understanding Skills

At level 6, you should be able to demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge and a systematic understanding of the subject area, at least some of which is informed by the latest research and/or advanced scholarship within the discipline. You should be aware of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge. Your work must demonstrate the growing extent of your knowledge and systematic understanding of concepts and underlying principles associated with the subject area. Knowledge relates to the facts, information and skills you have acquired through your learning. You demonstrate your understanding by interpreting the meaning of the facts and information (knowledge). This means that you need to select and include in your work the concepts, techniques, models, theories, etc. appropriate to the task(s) set. You should be able to explain the theories, concepts, etc. meaningfully to show your understanding. Your mark/grade will also depend upon the extent to which you demonstrate your knowledge and understanding; ideally each should be complete and detailed, with comprehensive coverage.

Guidance specific to this assessment:

• Students should demonstrate that they have a secure understanding of the impact of contemporary digital transformations for professionals and service users within the health and care sector, supporting points consistently with citations of relevant information.
• Within the report, students should demonstrate a secure understanding of relevant innovative digital technologies and devices and their impact upon the health and social care workforce, service delivery, patient/service user, community communities relevant to you chosen geographical area within the UK.

3. Cognitive and Intellectual Skills

You should be able to: critically evaluate evidence, arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data some of which are at the forefront of a discipline (and that may be incomplete) to devise and sustain arguments, to make judgements and/or solve problems; describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the discipline Your work must contain evidence of logical, analytical thinking, evaluation and synthesis. For example, to examine and break information down into parts, make inferences, compile, compare and contrast information. This means  not just describing what! But also justifying: Why? How? When? Who? Where? At what cost? At all times, you must provide justification for your arguments and judgements. Evidence that you have reflected upon the ideas of others within the subject area is crucial to you providing a reasoned and informed debate within your work. Furthermore, you should provide evidence that you are able to make sound judgements and convincing arguments using data and concepts Sound, valid conclusions are necessary and must be derived from the content of your work. Where relevant, alternative solutions and recommendations may be proposed.

Guidance specific to this assessment:

• Students must provide clear and reasoned critical analysis of their chosen digital
  technology/innovation that has been successfully implemented within Health and Social Care within the last 10 years.
• Students should pay close attention to the generic guidance for criterion 3 (above), key aspects are highlighted in bold.
• UK specific data should be included to support your critical arguments, localised data and international data can also be used.

4. Practical Skills

At level 6, you should be able to apply the methods and techniques that you have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply your knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects. You will deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry relevant to the discipline, and apply them in complex and unpredictable contexts, to devise and sustain arguments and/or to solve problems. You should be able to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions. You should be able to demonstrate how the subject-related concepts and ideas relate to real world situations and/or a particular context. How do they work in practice? You will deploy models, methods, techniques, and/or theories, in that context or circumstances, to assess current situations, perhaps to formulate plans or solutions to solve problems, or to create artefacts, some of which may be innovative and creative. This is likely to involve, for instance, the use of real world artefacts, examples and cases, the application of a model within an organisation and/or benchmarking one theory or organisation against others based on stated criteria. You should show awareness of the limitations of concepts and theories when applied in particular contexts.

Guidance specific to this assessment:

Students must examine critically one digital technology/innovation that has been successfully implemented within Health and Social Care within the last 10 years, with consideration of workforce, service delivery, patient/service user and community.

• Students must demonstrate a consideration of both positive and negative outcomes of their chosen UK technological innovation.

5. Transferable Skills for Life and Professional Practice

Your work must provide evidence of the qualities and transferable skills necessary for graduate-level employment requiring the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility and decision-making in complex and unpredictable circumstances. This includes demonstrating: the learning ability for professional development to advance existing skills and acquire new competences of a professional nature that will enable you to assume significant responsibility within organisations; that you can initiate and complete tasks and procedures, whether individually and/or collaboratively; that you can use appropriate media to effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and non-specialist audiences; fluency of expression; clarity and effectiveness in presentation and organisation. Work should be coherent and well-structured in presentation and organisation.

Guidance specific to this assessment:

• Students should address the task set in the task description.
• The written assignment should be structured in a coherent manner which demonstrates clarity of expression.
• Students should use academic language throughout the text with correct spelling, phrasing, and grammar.

Any use of diagrams or images should be clearly referenced, and their relevance explained in the text.

BMHP6026 Generic Assessment Criteria: