Tallinn University of Technology

MSc in Digital Health

Digital Health is a unique Master's program in Europe that provides interdisciplinary knowledge on digital technologies, innovation, and change management of health care. It relies on the best practices of healthcare digital transformation and e-health innovations from the Estonian e-health system and international successes.

Digital Health curriculum aims to train change managers – people who are able to develop, analyze, and implement new digital solutions in the area of health care.

Healthcare delivery is changing rapidly. Digital technologies are having an enormous impact on individual health and society’s well-being. New innovations are needed to solve the future challenges of healthcare delivery.

Digital Health master's program gives you the skills and interdisciplinary knowledge to implement new technologies in health care and provides practical examples of health care innovation and digitalization.

You Get Skills and Knowledge for Implementing New Innovative Technologies in Health Care

The studies include best practices of e-health implementation from Estonia and abroad and provide you with the relevant change management skills to contribute to healthcare care systems improvement.

There are many great examples, where digital and e-health services operate well and bring value. For example, the Estonian digital prescribing system provides seamless prescription management to the whole population and the country-wide EHR connects 100% of all healthcare providers for efficient patient data sharing. There are also growing digital health start-ups, of which a number have been founded by previous students of the Digital Health master’s program.

Experience and Examples of Countrywide E-health Implementation in Estonia

There are a lot of possibilities for better use of new technologies in healthcare. Human society is only taking its first steps in the implementation of digital technologies and AI in health care. Secondary data use is at a low level and new services for better personalization, prevention, and earlier detection of diseases are needed fast.

This is the reason why this curriculum exists. You will be the one to help to change healthcare! You will acquire knowledge about health systems, managing change, and digitalizing health care for better value. You might co-found a new digital health start-up, continue to do a PhD, start working as a hospital Chief Innovation Officer, or start leading a nationwide health-tech cluster. These are a few examples of what our alumni are doing.

Why Study Digital Health in Estonia?

• Unique digital ecosystem
• 12+ years of e-health experience, accompanied by real-life examples of innovation implementation
• Closely collaborating research community and availability of health-related data
• Entrepreneurial spirit - Estonia is ranked as one of the best European countries to set up a startup

Why this program?

• Skills and knowledge for implementing new innovative technologies in healthcare
• Experience and examples of countrywide e-health implementation in Estonia
• You learn to understand how healthcare, IT, and medicine interact
• Most of the lectures will take place in the Business and Innovation Centre Mektory
• Events and visits help you to get first-hand experience from different healthcare, medical, and digital health companies