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This one-year Masters degree is the perfect conversion pathway for recent graduates looking to move into the health and care sector. It's also ideal for existing health and social care practitioners looking to up-skill in digital innovation and move into leadership and transformational roles.

What you'll study:
This course is unique in that it looks at the human, technology and system perspectives in a whole systems approach to transformation of digital health and care. It explores not just the clinical perspective but also social care, third sector and consumer care models. We'll consider how to incorporate codesign and implementation science throughout, to ensure adoption and success of future digital health solutions and services.

You'll study:

digital health implementation
full lifecycle of designing, developing and evaluating health technologies from mHealth – novel personal health and wellness devices (e.g. mobile apps, wearables) to eHealth – larger scale hospital and community based IT systems (e.g. electronic health records)
agile participatory and co-design approaches for delivering health and care IT solutions
practical and innovative software and data management techniques for managing (databases) and using data (data analytics) produced across a range of systems to support decision making, planning, and delivery of better care
how to manage complex legal, ethical and governance issues within healthcare
how to apply theories and models of human information behaviour to the holistic analysis and design of health and social care systems
how technology enabled health and care solutions can be implemented and evaluated at scale
The course also offers guest lectures from experts in the field. These include data scientists, systems developers and ehealth programme managers. You'll also gain hands-on practical projects in partnership with leading organisations. These include the National Health Service (NHS), Scottish Government, industry, third sector, and The Digital Health and Care Institute (DHI).

The course includes 120 credits of taught material taken over the first two semesters, and a 60-credit digital health project that runs, typically, from May to September. Your project will involve tackling real-world problems suggested by our partners.
Accreditation: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
Careers:
Graduates from this MSc are able to work in the hugely important and fast growing field of digital health. And theyll be in a position to transform the delivery of health and care as it rapidly develops in the future.

Graduates enjoy a broad range of exciting career opportunities from a wide range of employers. IT professional is one of the fastest growing professions within health and care organisations. Private and public health and care services world-wide are also expanding their digital health workforce and hardware and software companies are all seeking expertise in the health and wellness sector.
Job roles
Future career options include:

Health Systems & Service Designers: designing new technology enabled services
Data Analyst: analysing data and producing insights for informing health and care decision making
Application & System Developer: producing state of the art software fit for healthcare management and delivery
Information Governance Manager: creating and realising actionable data management plans for health and social care data and services
Clinical Information Manager: Creating systems for structuring and organising health and care information to support clinical decision making
Planning & Performance Manager: Business analysis for the healthcare sector
Full Stack Developer: Working on front and back end web development for digital health companies or agencies.