Key Skills in Health Technology (1-6 ECTS)
- Date:
- 1.11.2025 - 31.12.2026
- Credits:
- 6 ECTS credits
- Location:
- -
- Continuous learning category:
- Social welfare and health care, Technology and digitalization
- Teaching format:
- Online teaching
- Price:
- 0 € (VAT 0%)
Health technology is a regulated and growing sector with great export potential. The creation and commercialization of innovations and the safe use of products requires multiple competences, cooperation, and knowledge of the entire product life cycle from everyone working with medical devices.
The Key Skills in Health Technology training program brings together key competencies that everyone working with medical devices needs. The program serves as both a good learning package and offers you the opportunity to update or improve your skills. The learning package consists of six online courses of one credit each (1 ECTS). You can take one or more courses.
Registration for the online courses will start at the beginning of January 2026. The courses will open in stages, and all courses in the training program will be offered by October 2026 at the latest. The studies can be completed free of charge until 15th December 2026.
The training program consists of the following online courses:
Fundamentals of Medical Device Approval Process and Quality Control, 2 ECTS
Clinical evaluations and investigations on medical devices, markets and product development from a company perspective. Handling of deviations, incidents, and adverse events (vigilance system) concerning medical devices. Essential rules and regulations related to medical devices within the EU market area are reviewed.
Business and marketing, 1 ECTS
Business areas and strengthening business thinking, commercialization process, customer segmentation, customer orientation as a starting point for operations.
Business opportunities and innovation, 1 ECTS
- Sustainable innovations and revisions to the installed base, and exports as business growth.
Risk Management and Risk-Based Thinking 1 ECTS
Basic principles of risk management and the ISO 14971 standard. Risk management as part of the quality and management systems and patient safety. Risk management process, risk-based development.
Successful co-creation and the safe use of Medical Devices, 1 ECTS
The prerequisites for co-creation, the benefits of service design, the importance of usability, and the cornerstones of safe use.
The aim of the learning program is to strengthen your quality, regulatory, and business skills and to familiarise you with designing the safe use of medical devices. You will learn about device life cycle, risk management, and risk-based thinking, as well as what successful co-creation and usability with different functions in health technology includes.
The target group of the training program is people who develop, produce and use medical devices, as well as those interested in the health technology sector. It is suitable for example for
personnel of health technology companies (especially start-ups)
people starting out in the health technology sector
those working in business positions related to health technology (commercialisation, export, sales, marketing)
- those involved in co-creation (research, development, and testing)
persons who use medical devices, are responsible for procurement or supervision of the safe use of devices in the wellbeing services counties
and RDI staff and teachers in higher education institutions
The training program meets the needs of working life; it is planned and implemented in close cooperation with sector partners. The online courses include several business cases that highlight the special characteristics, challenges, and success stories of the industry. During your studies, it is possible to use the group and individual guidance provided by the study and career counsellor.
Upon successful completion of the courses, you will receive credits and the Key Skills in Health Technology Open badge.
The training will be piloted during 2026. After that, the studies will be part of the Open University's elective studies in the degree programs in both Applied Physics and Business Studies.
After the training program you
- will understand why and what kind of regulation is applied to the health technology sector and the placing of its products on the market and being on the market
- are familiar with quality thinking, business thinking in the field, and you have become familiar with the terminology related to the Healthcare Technology industry.
- are able to describe the approval process of MD and IVD products and applications (MDSW), and how risk management and risk-based thinking are related to its different stages
- will identify factors affecting the commercialization process and customer orientation of medical devices, as well as ways to increase business opportunities
- can define the cornerstones of the usability and safe use of Medical Devices as well as the prerequisites for successful co-creation
The training is funded by the Service Centre for Continuous Learning and Employment (SECLE, JOTPA in Finnish). The service centre promotes the development of the skills of working-age people and the availability of skilled labour. The service centre's operations are steered by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.
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