About this program
Digital Health Transformation MSc
Implementing large-scale change involving digital health technologies requires an organisation to prepare leaders who:
- are flexible, highly adaptable and motivated by outcomes that realise benefits
- have the capacity to build patient-centred models of care, engaging with stakeholders to realise the benefits of digital technologies in health and social care to empower patients and enhance their experiences
- can effectively and consistently engage with patients and staff, bridging cultural differences and managing varying attitudes to change
- would be capable of directing the planning and deployment of resources in a digital transformation project
- can build a business case for cooperating with process improvements and emerging digital technologies to facilitate information sharing in a more integrated care environment to improve clinical development and clinical outcomes
- appreciate the need to capture and disseminate lessons from implementation and deployment of digital technologies
Could this be you? If so, you may wish to apply for the MSc. in Digital Health Transformation.
Aims
Taking cognisance of the social, legal, ethical and technical issues and ensuring compliance with the standards and regulations governing systems in the healthcare domain, this course aims to develop digital health transformation agents with the skills, knowledge and abilities to:
- explore healthcare ecosystem developments, engaging patients, providers, payers, policy makers, pharmacies and pharmaceuticals (6Ps) to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing to realise the value potential of these innovative partnerships; and
- lead core, adjacent and transformational innovations in a healthcare environment, taking a disciplined approach to advancing their understanding of exponential technologies (such as mobility, genomics, imaging and analytics) in order to realise the transformative power of digital disruptions
Admission requirements
- A healthcare administrator, healthcare manager or healthcare professional who holds a primary undergraduate degree (NFQ, 2.2 honours or higher)
Or
- An applicant who holds a primary undergraduate degree (2.2 honours or higher) in a health sciences discipline
Or
- An information technology specialist who holds a primary undergraduate degree (2.2 honours or higher) with experience of working in a healthcare setting.
Or
- An applicant with at least five years work experience in a healthcare related industry who can satisfy the course admission team that they have the ability to complete and benefit from this course.
Applicants may be required to undertake an interview.
Notes to Applicants:
- With your application please submit two paragraphs on an idea of yours for a digital health transformation project.
- Also, please submit with your application a letter from your line manager in support of your attendance on this program.
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.
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Semester 1 Modules
- Introduction to Digital Health Transformation
- eHealth Systems, Standards, and Digital Services
- Health Information Modelling and Governance
- Digital Health Research Design
- Health Service Digital Transformation
Semester 2 Modules
- Digital Health and Wellbeing in the Community
- Digital Health Change Management
- Clinical Decision Making and Knowledge Discovery
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Plus one elective from
- Medical Devices
- Medical Diagnostics
- Digital Health and Clinical Trials
Digital Health Transformation Project
Scholarships & funding
For more information about scholarships, please visit the university website.
Tuition
Tuition fee varies, please visit the university's website for more information.
Qualification
Program Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, graduates will have the skills, knowledge and abilities to:
- Understand the dimensions of a patient-centric health ecosystem in order to identify innovation potential.
- Assess the potential of exponential technologies and digital services to facilitate collaboration and the sharing of information and knowledge to realise the benefits of an integrated care environment.
- Determine how the healthcare industry can best leverage digital technologies to improve clinical development and clinical outcomes having considered information governance challenges.
- Understand and apply the fundamental principles and key concepts of developing and managing an innovation culture in a healthcare context.
- Anticipate and plan for the acceptance and diffusion of transformational innovations among patient groups and healthcare employees.
- Conduct data collection and analysis to inform the development of healthcare innovations.
- Utilise user-centred design principles and methods in the development of innovative digital services.
- Report on economic evaluations of health technologies.
- Adopt rigorous evaluation methods to identify potential opportunities for incorporating exponential technologies in healthcare.
- Understand the need for organisations to be agile in adjusting strategies as innovations
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University of Limerick
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