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Health Technology Innovation

Module information

Module details

Title
Health Technology Innovation
Type
Specialist
Module code
S-CE-S3
Credits
15
Phase
3
Requirement
Compulsory

Aim of this module

This module will prepare the trainee for identifying, developing and implementing healthcare technology innovation. It provides experience in identifying opportunities for improvement and development, eliciting and specifying customer requirements and producing real world solutions whilst developing an understanding of the strategic planning and wider organisational requirements for the introduction of new technology into the healthcare pathway.

Work-based content

Training activities

# Learning outcome Training activity Type Action
# 1 Learning outcome 1,9 Training activities

Outline a service development opportunity and generate requirements to address that service delivery need

 Type DTA Action View
# 2 Learning outcome 2 Training activities

Identify existing and emerging solutions to address the requirements of a service delivery need. Consider gaps and opportunities for the adoption or development of the potential solutions

 Type DTA Action View
# 3 Learning outcome 2,3 Training activities

Present solutions to address a service delivery need and lead an appraisal against requirements with stakeholders

 Type DTA Action View
# 4 Learning outcome 4,5,6 Training activities

Generate a prototype or simulation of a solution to address a service need

 Type DTA Action View
# 5 Learning outcome 7,8 Training activities

Plan and perform verification and validation of a prototype or simulation developed to address a service need

 Type DTA Action View
# 6 Learning outcome 3,9 Training activities

Draft an outline business case for the adoption of a new technology to address a service need

 Type DTA Action View
# 7 Learning outcome 9,10 Training activities

Critically review the introduction of a new medical technology, or a mass equipment replacement programme, within the organisation

 Type DTA Action View
# 8 Learning outcome 7,8 Training activities

Design and perform a repeatability study for a clinical measurement or group of devices

 Type DTA Action View
# 9 Learning outcome 6,7,8 Training activities

Produce a graphical user interface (GUI) or webpage to output and present data for at least one of the following:

  • Analytical package
  • Database interrogation
  • Driving/reporting a physical system
 Type DTA Action View
# 10 Learning outcome 6,7,8 Training activities

Build and test an electrical circuit developed from a simulation to include:

  • An analogue system
  • A digital system
 Type DTA Action View
# 11 Learning outcome 6,7,8 Training activities

Produce and test a mechanical component

 Type DTA Action View
# 12 Learning outcome 10,11 Training activities

Outline the pathway of translation for a proposed medical device innovation, starting from the stage of clinical investigation through to adoption into use within a healthcare organisation

 Type DTA Action View
# 13 Learning outcome 7,8 Training activities

Design and implement a calibration method/regime for a piece of specialist medical equipment, exploring performance beyond routine calibration

 Type DTA Action View
# 14 Learning outcome 7,8 Training activities

Evaluate the diagnostic performance of a medical device including:

  • Sensitivity
  • Specificity
  • Diagnostic accuracy
 Type DTA Action View
# 15 Learning outcome 10 Training activities

Identify a development for a service based on a recent innovation or national initiative which impacts the patient pathway

Map the development to local service needs

Consider strategic change required for adoption, identifying impact on departmental/local service practice

 Type DTA Action View

Assessments

Complete 3 Case-Based Discussions

Complete 3 DOPS or OCEs

Direct Observation of Practical Skills Titles

  • Perform a verification or validation activity.
  • Collect repeatability data.
  • Demonstrate an electrical circuit including live measurement.
  • Perform a calibration test.
  • Perform a mechanical test on a component and compare with CAD simulation.

Observed Clinical Event Titles

  • Lead requirements generation or solution selection exercise with other stakeholders
  • Discuss the production of a mechanical/electrical/software prototype with the stakeholders.
  • Train users for a newly developed GUI/webpage solution.
  • Discuss an outline business case with a finance manager.
  • Present a service development need to the multidisciplinary team.

Learning outcomes

# Learning outcome
1

Generate customer requirements for a development or innovation from stakeholder input.
2

Identify, analyse and critically review solutions to a service need.
3

Employ and adapt communication skills to effectively engage and lead conversations with stakeholders.
4

Develop specifications and designs for solutions to address service needs.
5

Produce Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings and simulations.
6

Produce basic hardware and software for mechanical and electrical systems.
7

Use suitable tools for measurement and analysis.
8

Plan and perform verification and validation of solutions.
9

Critically appraise, summarise and present evidence to support the case for change.
10

Evaluate service changes and relate the change to potential benefits to patient care and the wider healthcare system.
11

Identify and describe the translation pathway of a medical device through to adoption into healthcare.

Clinical experiences

Clinical experiences help you to develop insight into your practice and a greater understanding of your specialty's impact on patient care. Clinical experiences should be included in your training plan and you may be asked to help organise your experiences. Reflections and observations from your experiences may help you to advance your practice and can be used to develop evidence to demonstrate your awareness and appreciation of your specialty.

Activities

  1. Visit a clinical engineering service involved in the introduction of new technology into clinical services.
  2. Visit a stakeholder service to fully appreciate the development opportunity and service impact of potential solutions.
  3. Attend a corporate level meeting at which decisions regarding the introduction of new technologies are made to appreciate the decision-making process.
  4. Attend and participate in stakeholder project meetings for the introduction of new technology.
  5. Spend time in a clinical engineering service that designs and produces medical devices to understand how project management and quality management systems support design and development in healthcare technology innovation.
  6. Attend an end of project review meeting for both a device development project and the introduction of new technology in to clinical use.
  7. Spend time in the stakeholder service for a device analysed to appreciate how device performance affects clinical use and patient outcome.

Academic content (MSc in Clinical Science)

Important information

The academic parts of this module will be detailed and communicated to you by your university. Please contact them if you have questions regarding this module and its assessments. The module titles in your MSc may not be exactly identical to the work-based modules shown in the e-portfolio. Your modules will be aligned, however, to ensure that your academic and work-based learning are complimentary.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module the trainee will be able to:

  1. Apply integrative knowledge of the principles of design in the operational and technical domains.
  2. Identify and compute the appropriate statistics to quantify the dynamics of an operational, clinical or technical process.
  3. Critically apply signal analysis methods to physiological or other signals.

Indicative content

  • Principles and practice of good design:
    • Engaging with users.
    • Design in health care technology.
    • Exploration of design opportunities.
    • Developing design solutions.
    • Verification and validation.
    • Managing and executing the design process.
  • The statistics of clinical measurement:
    • Estimates of precision in clinical measurements.
      • Minimal detectable differences.
      • Intra-class correlation.
    • Statistics for clinical diagnosis.
      • Binomial regression.
      • Receiver operator curves.
      • The Bayes equation.
    • Normalisation
    • Clinically-important differences.
  • Modelling and simulation of operational systems in healthcare:
    • Issue maps.
    • Discrete event simulations.
    • Activity diagrams.
    • Influence diagrams.
    • System dynamics.
    • Introduction to simulation tools for operational systems.
  • Modelling and simulation of mechanical systems in health care:
    • Mechanics refresher.
    • Physical and biological behaviours of clinical materials.
    • Introduction to CAD.
    • Introduction to finite element analysis (FEA).
  • Routes to market for medical device innovation:
    • Intellectual property.
    • Clinical investigations.
    • Commercialisation.
    • Post-market surveillance.
  • Manufacturing technologies:
    • Principles of 3D printing.
    • Principles of CNC milling.

Module assigned to

Specialties

Specialty code Specialty title Action
Specialty code SPE3-4-22 Specialty title Clinical Engineering [2022] Action View
Specialty code SPE3-4-23 Specialty title Clinical Engineering [2023] Action View
Specialty code SPE3-4-24 Specialty title Clinical Engineering [2024] Action View
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