MSc in Digital Health

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

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

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 health 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 health care 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 Digital Health master’s programme.

Curriculum

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

Why this programme?

• Skills and knowledge for implementing new innovative technologies in health care.
• 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 have site-visits help you to get the first-hand experience from different healthcare, medical and digital health companies.

Future career

During the studies, we put a lot of effort in 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, in government institutions, in start-ups or in healthcare provider organisations.

Most of the jobs are involved in changing the current processes of health care and digitalising 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.