Master Health and Digital Transformation
Maastricht, Netherlands
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 32,000 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for non-EU applicants | June 1 for EU applicants
** institutional fees top; low - EUR 21,400 per year; high - EUR 25,000 per year | statutory fees: EUR 2.601 per year
Key Summary
Introduction
Health and Digital Transformation
The healthcare sector faces complex challenges, such as rising costs and a shortage of skilled workers. Health expenditures are increasing due to an ageing population, morbidity, and changes in patients’ expectations towards healthcare delivery.
Digital and data-driven solutions can offer a solution to these challenges and make healthcare more affordable, more accessible and of a better quality. There is a lot of attention to new technologies, such as e-health, artificial intelligence, automation, robotics and smart home services. However, the transition to a more digital care process is not self-evident. Technical and digital applications do not always get off the ground or disappear after a while. Additionally, developers lack an understanding of the needs and experiences of end-users in healthcare.
The digital transformation requires bridge builders who understand both the domain of data science and the domain of healthcare. This programme equips you with the knowledge and tools to facilitate the digital transformation in healthcare. You learn how to collaborate and communicate with different stakeholders and how to initiate and lead organisational change.
This programme is for you if you are interested in:
- building bridges between healthcare, data science, and digital technology;
- strategically navigating the digital transformation of healthcare;
- ensuring that healthcare is innovative, sustainable and affordable.
Fast facts
- Unique master's programme
- Focus on the digital transformation in healthcare
- Practice-based, interprofessional and interactive
The digital transformation of healthcare
The digital transformation of healthcare is necessary to ensure that healthcare is innovative, sustainable, and affordable. This requires a change in the interaction between technology and health professionals. Digital technology is often developed without involving end-users such as patients and caregivers. It is therefore important to understand the problems and wishes of the end-users to develop innovations that are useful and easy to use. As a student, you gain in-depth knowledge of data science and information technology. Additionally, you gain an understanding of digital technologies in healthcare and learn how to design, implement and evaluate digital technology and AI in healthcare.
Building bridges between technology and healthcare
Health and Digital Transformation educates bridge builders. Healthcare professionals who are eager to make the connection between IT specialists and data scientists and who ensure the adoption of new technologies in daily healthcare practices. Bringing about sustainable change requires knowledge of change management, organisational development and management issues, all of which are covered in this programme. You learn to communicate and collaborate, bringing various stakeholders together, such as consumers, businesses, and policymakers. Moreover, it is important to be ethically responsible when using (personal) data, and you learn how to handle and store data based on the responsibility framework.
Blend of theory and practice
Health and Digital Transformation is a unique programme with one overarching, interdisciplinary project. In a team of 4 to 5 students, you will be working on one project throughout the year. In collaboration with a healthcare institute, research institute or the industry you tackle a real-life problem. In each course, the acquired theoretical knowledge is immediately applied in this overarching project. This enhances your capabilities to effectively communicate with different stakeholders and work in multidisciplinary teams, preparing you for your career as a bridge builder. During the project, you are guided by a personal mentor and receive regular, formative feedback.
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Scholarships and Funding
It is Maastricht University’s (UM) mission to offer students from all over the world the opportunity to develop into active, globally oriented thinkers that are ready to make a positive contribution to their societies.
UM’s high-quality, innovative education based on small-scale Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in an international and intercultural setting prepares students for this purpose.
As an open and accessible academic community, UM offers several scholarships to support top-performing undergraduate and graduate students with personal development potential that are experiencing financial difficulties to pursue a degree at UM. UM scholarship students function as important ambassadors of the university during and after their studies.UM scholarship students are selected on the basis of their academic excellence, extracurricular engagement, active citizenship and financial need. As the number of scholarships is limited, the selection process is highly competitive.
Before applying for a UM scholarship, please take into account the factors summed up below. Read these carefully, to make sure that the valuable time you invest in applying pays off:
- You will have to apply for a study program at UM before applying for a scholarship;
- You are only allowed to apply for one UM scholarship, multiple applications will be disqualified;
- Verify if your nationality is eligible for the scholarship;
- Verify whether your study program is participating in the scholarship;
- Ensure that if the scholarship covers only the tuition fees, you are able to finance your own living expenses (rent, food and insurances) for the complete duration of your studies.
Curriculum
- Data and Technology in Healthcare HDT4001
- The Multimodality of a Digital Society HDT4002
- Technical Evaluations of AI Algorithms HDT4003
- Making Sense of Digital Technology in Healthcare HDT4004
- Thesis Preparation HDT4005
- Digital Technology as a Medical Device HDT4006
- Digital Strategies For Disrupting Healthcare Systems HDT4007
- Placement and Thesis HDT4051
- Interdisciplinary Project HDT4050
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
We emphasise your future employability and prepare you for your first step in the labour market. The interdisciplinary project equips you with skills and experience collaborating with professionals in the field. Moreover, you participate in various practical workshops, including a coding workshop, and receive seminars on co-creation, project management, business modelling, and stakeholder communication.
The opportunities for Health and Digital Transformation experts are expected to grow substantially over the coming years as more experts are needed who understand the possibilities but also the limitations of digital technology to help transform healthcare in an innovative and sustainable way. After your Master's degree, there are a lot of options for your future career.
- With this multidisciplinary background, graduates will find employment in a wide range of sectors, such as healthcare, consultancy, business, industry and government.
- Within healthcare organizations, graduates can be involved in the selection, use and safety aspects of (medical) digital aids and technological innovations.
- As a consultant, they may connect developers of technology with the healthcare market. They can advise healthcare organizations, healthcare providers and clients/patients on a variety of issues related to the implementation of digital innovations in healthcare.
- As a project manager within the business community or at health insurance companies, they can initiate the development of novel digital products for clients/patients.
- As policy advisors, they can also assist and advise organizations in strategically navigating the digital transformation of healthcare.
- As a researcher (within universities, hospitals, health insurers or health tech companies), research can be done into the implementation, testing and evaluation of innovative digital technologies. Finally, as entrepreneurs, they may start their own healthtech start-up to bring a (digital) innovation to the market.