Master in Digital Healthcare

You start with how healthcare really works: how health and social care systems are organised and paid for, how public health protects whole populations, and what the data tells us about the challenges ahead, from ageing to chronic disease. Then you look inside the hospital: the information systems, the electronic health record, the standards that let data move safely between them, and the devices and wearables that are bringing care into the digital age. You learn to innovate in a field where evidence is not optional. You use innovation methods to design a digital health solution, and you learn to produce the evidence that proves it works and to evaluate it the way health authorities do. You study the technologies changing healthcare, from AI and the Internet of Things to robotics and virtual reality, and you learn to tell which of them will improve care and which are only promises. And from the first semester you learn to manage: project planning, agile methods, change management, leading teams, and the financial basics of a health organisation. By the end of the first semester you understand the health system from the inside and can design a digital solution for it. Making it work in real care, with real data, real clinicians and real patients, is the work of the second semester.

Now you go deeper into data and AI in healthcare: how to bring data together from many sources, how to use analytics to run a hospital better, how clinical decision support and conversational AI are used with patients, and where the ethical and legal limits are. You learn value-based healthcare, the model that pays for patient outcomes instead of activity, and how to measure value in a real care setting. Then you learn the part most programmes leave out: implementation. Why most digital health projects stop at the pilot stage, and the methods that take a solution from a pilot into routine care. You learn the law a manager must know: data protection, data security, the AI Act and the European Health Data Space, and what they mean for a project. And you learn the business side: healthcare business models, a business plan for a digital health venture, fundraising, and how hospitals work with startups.

From the spring you work on your Final Project, the largest module of the year: a real digital transformation challenge in a hospital, a primary care organisation, a health system or a health-tech company, followed through five supervision checkpoints and presented at a Demo Day at the end of the year. It is the proof that you can lead digital change in healthcare, and make it reach the patient.

a Final Project presented at Demo Day, a digital transformation plan for a real health organisation, an evidence and evaluation plan for a digital health solution, and a business plan for a digital health venture.