Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data
The widespread adoption of wearable devices (wearables) for monitoring vital signs, including blood pressure and glucose levels, has experienced a considerable surge in recent times. This surge has led to the generation of a substantial amount of health data, accessible to pharmacists during patient...
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| author | Kinny, Florian Schlottau, Sabina Sherazi, Bushra Ali Obarcanin, Emina Läer, Stephanie |
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| author_facet | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Kinny, Florian Schlottau, Sabina Sherazi, Bushra Ali Obarcanin, Emina Läer, Stephanie |
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| description | The widespread adoption of wearable devices (wearables) for monitoring vital signs, including blood pressure and glucose levels, has experienced a considerable surge in recent times. This surge has led to the generation of a substantial amount of health data, accessible to pharmacists during patient consultations as the healthcare sector advances in digitalization. To enhance the digital competencies of future pharmacists required by the rapidly changing digital health landscape, the Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Duesseldorf has developed an innovative elective practical course aimed to bolster pharmacy students' competencies in handling wearables and the health data generated. The three-week practical elective course employed wearables FreeStyle Libre® 3 (Continuous Glucose Monitoring, CGM) and Aktiia (Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring). The hands-on activities allowed participants to obtain and interpret wearable-generated health-related data and acquainted them with simulated patient cases. Final-year pharmacy students' subjective assessments before and after the course depicted the increased knowledge and competence regarding analysing wearables data. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1797022024-08-25T15:38:01Z Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data Kinny, Florian Schlottau, Sabina Sherazi, Bushra Ali Obarcanin, Emina Läer, Stephanie Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Medicine, Health and Life Sciences mHealth Wearables The widespread adoption of wearable devices (wearables) for monitoring vital signs, including blood pressure and glucose levels, has experienced a considerable surge in recent times. This surge has led to the generation of a substantial amount of health data, accessible to pharmacists during patient consultations as the healthcare sector advances in digitalization. To enhance the digital competencies of future pharmacists required by the rapidly changing digital health landscape, the Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Duesseldorf has developed an innovative elective practical course aimed to bolster pharmacy students' competencies in handling wearables and the health data generated. The three-week practical elective course employed wearables FreeStyle Libre® 3 (Continuous Glucose Monitoring, CGM) and Aktiia (Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring). The hands-on activities allowed participants to obtain and interpret wearable-generated health-related data and acquainted them with simulated patient cases. Final-year pharmacy students' subjective assessments before and after the course depicted the increased knowledge and competence regarding analysing wearables data. Published version The research work of BAS was supported by a scholarship from the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan in collaboration with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany. 2024-08-19T02:22:28Z 2024-08-19T02:22:28Z 2024 Journal Article Kinny, F., Schlottau, S., Sherazi, B. A., Obarcanin, E. & Läer, S. (2024). Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data. Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 15, 100465-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2024.100465 2667-2766 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179702 10.1016/j.rcsop.2024.100465 38983639 2-s2.0-85195842584 15 100465 en Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Medicine, Health and Life Sciences mHealth Wearables Kinny, Florian Schlottau, Sabina Sherazi, Bushra Ali Obarcanin, Emina Läer, Stephanie Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data |
| title | Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data |
| title_full | Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data |
| title_fullStr | Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data |
| title_short | Digital health in pharmacy education: elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data |
| title_sort | digital health in pharmacy education elective practical course integrating wearable devices and their generated health data |
| topic | Medicine, Health and Life Sciences mHealth Wearables |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179702 |
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