Digital Health Transformation

Key programme benefits to future students

This programme develops digital health transformation agents with the skills, knowledge, and abilities to explore health ecosystem developments.



Participants will gain the confidence to innovate and apply their learnings, as individuals and as team members, adopting a patient-centric approach to their decision-making and actions, to solve problems and overcome challenges within their health settings/sectors/industries, taking cognisance of social, legal, ethical, and technical issues while ensuring compliance with the relevant standards and regulations.



Through the medium of undertaking a substantial project (rather than a dissertation), members of each group will integrate and apply their previous learnings to develop a digital transformation solution or capability that will have a significant positive impact on their health service/sector.

This programme runs over 18 months (three semesters, Spring (Year 1), Autumn (Year 1), and Spring Year 2).



Spring Modules

• Introduction to Digital Health Transformation

• eHealth Systems, Standards, and Digital Services

• Health Information Modelling

• Health Service Digital Transformation

• Digital Health Research Design



Autumn Modules

• Clinical Decision Making and Knowledge Discovery

• Digital Health and Wellbeing in the Community

• Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

• Digital Health Change Management



Elective Modules (choose one)

Digital Health and Clinical Trials | Medical Devices | Medical Diagnostics.



Digital Health Transformation Project

In addition, through the medium of undertaking a substantial project, members of each group will integrate and apply their previous learnings to develop a digital transformation solution or capability that will have a significant positive impact on their health service/sector. This project forms one-third of the programme’s credits, split over the modules of Project Definition and Transformation Project.

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 asked to attend interview.

18 months full-time, on-campus.

Spring

Graduate careers

Graduates will lead core, adjacent and transformational innovations in health settings/ sectors/industries, taking a disciplined approach to advancing exponential technologies to realise the transformative power of digital disruptions. Typical careers include Digital Health Lead/ Change Manager/Project Manager/Innovation Manager; Information Governance Officer; Digital Health Systems Support; Business Process Analyst; Information Analyst; as well as roles in Education and Research.