The course aims to facilitate students with different educational backgrounds to gain basic healthcare knowledge and innovative methods and techniques for wearable technology and digital medicine. The lecture content covers knowledge about material and engineering technologies for wearable healthcare devices, sensing and feedback technologies, health research with exposure modelling and healthcare data management. Additionally, the course will introduce the dynamic interaction between digital medicine, population health, and evidence-based medicine. It will discuss how this interaction leverages technology and data to enhance healthcare delivery, making it more effective and efficient for diverse populations. Students will deliver a presentation and submit a written essay with specific topics that are related to the wearable technology and digital medicine.

A similarity report will be requested to detect plagiarism and ensure academic integrity in the written essay. The detailed requirements will be announced in class and be posted on Canvas in due course.