Limerick Institute of Technology
Postgraduate Diploma of Digital Health
- Limerick, Ireland
- Clonmel, Ireland
Postgraduate Diploma
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English
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Key Summary
About: The Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Health is a programme developed with healthcare providers and clinical experts. It’s taught by computer, software engineering, and nursing lecturers using problem-based practice to build skills in digital health, health informatics, telemedicine, and interoperability. It prepares graduates to bridge healthcare and computing and lead technology-enabled change. At LIT you'll study in a tight-knit community with a low student-to-lecturer ratio.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles like clinical informatician, digital health project manager, and health IT consultant. They work in hospitals, health services, vendors, and policy organizations on systems improvement, technology implementation, and data-driven care.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Health is an interdisciplinary programme developed in partnership with, healthcare service providers and with clinical experts in the field of digital health. This course is aimed at postgraduate students who wish to enhance their knowledge, competencies, attitudes, and skills within the context of digital health and health care systems. This course will enable graduates to function efficiently as healthcare leaders and innovators within a digitally enabled healthcare environment. The programme was developed and will be delivered by lecturers from the fields of computer and software engineering and nursing and healthcare. This is pivitol in preparing graduates to bridge the gap between healthcare and computing; to lead the transformative evolution of technology in healthcare delivery. As identified by the World Health Organization (2021) digital health can help health systems be more efficient and sustainable, enabling them to deliver good quality, affordable and equitable care. Likewise the eHealth strategy in Ireland (Health Service Executive (2023) suggests that the use of technological-enabled solutions will lead to improved population wellbeing, health service effeciences and economic opportunities. The teaching strategies involve a problem based approach with development of practice based skills working with practice based problems which mirrors the challenges faced in the healthcare environment.
