Precision Medicine and Smart Healthcare: The Industrial Applications (FutureLearn)

Precision Medicine and Smart Healthcare: The Industrial Applications (FutureLearn)

Explore the trends in the development of precision medicine, smart healthcare, regenerative medicine, and targeted therapy. Delve into the future of personalised medicine and healthcare. This five-week course from Taipei Medical University will help you gain an in-depth understanding of the international trends in the development of precision medicine. You’ll discuss the role of cross-industry cooperation to provide integrated and value-added services in the existing medical industry. Next, you’ll explore the integration of technology, such as AI, to understand the future of precision medicine and healthcare.

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Delve into the biomedical and healthcare industries
You’ll gain an overview of Taiwan’s biomedical industry, exploring the development of its healthcare and its advantages.
With this knowledge, you’ll unpack the role of multidisciplinary collaboration and innovation in smart healthcare. This understanding will also help you investigate what a global strategy on digital health could look like, as well as global healthcare.

Unpack the importance of healthcare technologies
In an ageing population, it is important to understand the elderly and a super-aged society.
On the course, you’ll delve into the typical healthcare issues that older people face and the technologies, such as regenerative medicine, that can help us respond to these issues and improve quality of life.

Gain an understanding of targeted therapy
Finally, you’ll unpack the trends and technology of targeted therapy. You’ll gain an understanding of what it is and how it can be used to treat specific healthcare issues such as cancer and glaucoma.
Guided by the experts at Taipei Medical University, you’ll finish the course with a strong foundation of knowledge of precision medicine and smart healthcare.

Syllabus

Week 1: Precision Medicine, AI, and the Future of Personalized Health Care
Week 2: Co-Creation Platform for Smart Healthcare at Taiwan Integration Biotechnology Industrial Center
Week 3: Technologies for Healthcare in a Super-aged Society
Week 4: Current Trends for Regeneration Medicine
Week 5: Targeted Therapy: The Trends and Its Technology

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Describe the scope of precision medicine
  • Explore the advantages of biomedical industry in Taiwan
  • Investigate the advanced technologies improve people's lives
  • Explore the new trends on targeted therapy
  • Explore the the technique of regenerative medicine

Who is the course for?
This course is designed for students, biologists, or researchers who would like to learn the basic concept of precision medicine, smart healthcare, regeneration medicine, and targeted therapy in different industrial applications.

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