MSc in Digital Health
Tallinn, Estonia
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 6,000 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* non-EU citizens; 1 June - citizens of EU/EEA countries and Switzerland
** free for EU/EEA citizens
Key Summary
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Introduction
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
Admissions
Curriculum
Complete 120 ECTS credits to fulfill the academic requirements
- General studies cover courses on medical law and ethics entrepreneurship business planning, and research design. The students will also take part in a project-based master's seminar in which they must work in teams to develop innovative solutions to current healthcare problems
- Core studies include basics of e-health, health policy, health promotion, and human anatomy and diseases
- Special studies consist of specialization courses in Digital Health Technologies that cover healthcare data systems and analysis, medical imaging and signals, interoperability and quality management in healthcare, epidemiology, evaluation, and financing in healthcare. The studies also include an internship in cooperation with industry partners
- Free choice courses Students can choose from a wide variety of courses offered by the university
- Graduation thesis Students are asked to write a research paper or a scientific article, in which they must apply their knowledge on healthcare digitalization through various perspectives
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Program Outcome
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the curriculum is to train change managers, who contribute to the digitalization of health care. Systematic and thorough knowledge is obtained about healthcare technologies, healthcare digitalization, different e-health technologies, and the implementation of new innovative technologies. Graduates understand how medicine, IT, and health care interact and are able to gather specialized knowledge and skills to interpret that knowledge in a critical, analytical, and creative manner in order to contribute to changes improving healthcare, either at health care service providers, public or private sector organizations.
Learning Outcomes
The graduate:
- Has obtained systematic and thorough knowledge about healthcare technologies healthcare digitalization, different e-health technologies, and implementation of new innovative technologies
- Understands how medicine, IT, and health care interact
- Has acquired skills to implement new innovative technologies in health care
- Understands relevant trends, research methods, best practices, and their implementation regarding health care digitalization
- Is able to gather specialized knowledge and knows how to interpret that knowledge in a critical, analytical, and creative manner in order to contribute to changes improving healthcare
- Has received an interdisciplinary education in a fast-growing field and possesses good communicative skills and knows how to work in a team.
Graduates of this programme will be awarded a Master of Science in Engineering (MSc).
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Career Opportunities
During the studies, we put a lot of effort into connecting you to different industry partners, digital health companies, government institutions, and start-ups.
A high number of our alumni have started work or have interned in digital health companies, IT companies developing applications and systems in healthcare, government institutions, in start-ups, or in healthcare provider organizations.
Most of the jobs are involved in changing the current processes of health care and digitalizing health care delivery for improved quality and access. Many of our alumni are working in or have co-founded digital health start-ups. This shows the need for innovation and new technologies in healthcare.