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Study Details: 12 months full-time
Digital Health is one of the fastest growing economic sectors worldwide. There's significant potential for the transformation of health care through better and widespread use of digital technologies. This includes a growing role for technology in supporting people to monitor and manage their own health and wellbeing.
The global digital health market was estimated at $288.55 billion in 2024 (Digital Health Market Size and Share Induustry Report 2030), and is predicted to continue to grow at pace even further over the next 5 years and beyond.
This one-year Masters degree is the perfect conversion pathway for recent graduates looking to move into the health and care sector. It's also ideal for existing health and social care practitioners looking to up-skill in digital innovation and move into leadership and transformational roles.
Minimum second-class (2.2) Honours degree, or international equivalent in any subject.
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Graduates from this MSc are able to work in the hugely important and fast growing field of digital health. And they’ll be in a position to transform the delivery of health and care as it rapidly develops in the future.
Graduates enjoy a broad range of exciting career opportunities from a wide range of employers. IT professional is one of the fastest growing professions within health and care organisations. Private and public health and care services world-wide are also expanding their digital health workforce and hardware and software companies are all seeking expertise in the health and wellness sector.
Job roles
Graduates from this degree programme have gone on to have future careers in roles such as:
Health Systems & Service Designers: designing new technology enabled services
Data Analyst: analysing data and producing insights for informing health and care decision making
Application & System Developer: producing state of the art software fit for healthcare management and delivery
Information Governance Manager: creating and realising actionable data management plans for health and social care data and services
Clinical Information Manager: creating systems for structuring and organising health and care information to support clinical decision making
Planning & Performance Manager: business analysis for the healthcare sector
Full Stack Developer: working on front and back end web development for digital health companies or agencies for those that join the programme with existing software development or software engineering skills
Core modules:
Digital Health Implementation (20 credits)
Design of Usable Systems (20 credits)
Decision Support & Health Analytics (20 credits)
Healthy Ageing (10 credits)
Health Information Governance (10 credits)
Database Fundamentals (10 credits)
Research Methods (10 credits)
Optional modules:
Health economics & evaluation (10 credits)
Managing Healthcare Operations (10 credits)
Big Data Fundamentals (10 credits)
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