NDAB22007U Software Development for Digital Health

Volume 2024/2025
Education

Bachelor in Health and Informatics

Content

The course provides an introduction to the elementary elements in the development of IT systems in the healthcare system. The course focuses on system development and software engineering techniques: requirements specification, basic UML diagrams and system development methods.

As software integrates with information systems, the student will acquire skills in modelling and manipulation of data in relational databases. Finally, the course will equip the student with skills in data communication via information exchange.

Learning Outcome

After completing the course, the student is expected to be able to:

Knowledge of

- The overall different software development processes

- What a requirement specification is and how it is prepared

- Testing methods for software and how it is prepared

 

Skills in

- Choosing a system development method in relation to a given task and its context, including employees, type of organization and technology

- Eliciting and validating software requirements

- Designing a software system using simple use-case diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams and activity diagrams

- Justifying the choice of data types and data model

 

Competences to

- Participate in a software-development oriented project in collaboration framed in the context of healthcare applications

- Reflect on the challenges of developing large IT systems in a health context

- Develop a simple object-oriented program with user interface and interaction to a database

- Create and manipulate databases using SQL, and communicate their design using Entity Relationship Diagrams

See Absalon

Programming knowledge corresponding to the skills achieved in NDAB21003U Python programmering til datavidenskab.
Lectures, exercises, workshops and assignments
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 24
  • Preparation
  • 88
  • Exercises
  • 24
  • Project work
  • 50
  • Exam
  • 20
  • Total
  • 206
Written
Oral
Individual
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Peer feedback (Students give each other feedback)

Lecturer's oral or written feedback on writing assignments, continuous reflection on their own learning, and peer feedback.

Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Oral examination, Mundtlig prøve, 20 min. uden forberedelse med opsyn.
Type of assessment details
The exam consists of two part:

1) An individual written summary of the projects done during the course. The summary must be handed in at the end of the course.
2) An individual oral exam (20 min. without preparation) that is based on the before mentioned summary.

The two parts are given an overall assessment.
Exam registration requirements

The group will deliver 2-4 project submissions during the course. The submissions are mandatory to access the exam.

Aid
All aids allowed

For programming tasks specifically, the use of GitHub Copilot or similar AI-based programming tools is permitted. The finite list of allowed AI-tools will be announced in Absalon.

Tools based on AI/LLM’s, including generative AI/LLM, can be used as an aid for the exam. How these tolls are used shall be described in the description of the method. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the text, including ensuring that the text is not factually incorrect, plagiarized or contains copyrighted material. 

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Several internal examiners
Re-exam

The re-exam is the same as the ordinary exam.

The summary may be revised and resubmitted incl. a list of the changes made. 

If student is not qualified for the exam, qualification can be achieved by submitting three weeks before the reexam week and approval of the mandatory assignments.

Criteria for exam assesment

See Learning Outcome.