The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow is inviting applications for its MSc Digital Health Systems course starting in September 2023
MSc Digital Health Systems
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow is inviting applications for its MSc Digital Health Systems course starting in September 2023.
Digital Health is one of the fastest growing economic sectors worldwide. There’s significant potential for the transformation of health care through better and widespread use of digital technologies. This includes a growing role for technology in supporting people to monitor and manage their own health and wellbeing. (The King’s Fund 2022)
The global digital health market is expected to earn $149.9 billion in 2022 as against $128.80 billion earned in 2021, reflecting a 16.3% growth, said leading financial educational hub StockApps.com, citing a Statista report. (Zawya 2022)
This one-year Master’s 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.
Strathclyde’s course is unique because it’s:
- delivered by a broad range of world experts in computing science, information science, psychology, and health services research
- relevant to real-world practice by being co-designed with the Scottish Government, their innovation centre (the Digital Health & Care Institute) the National Health Service, health and care SMEs and third sector organisations
- takes a multifaceted whole systems approach involving people, technology, practice and policy
You’ll learn about state-of-the-art devices (e.g. sensors, wearables, apps), systems (e.g. electronic health records, remote monitoring) and methods (e.g. co-design, machine learning and data analytics).
You’ll also learn about health and care implementation, innovation and how to deliver real world digital health solutions in context and at scale.
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).
Duration – 1 year
Eligibility – Minimum second-class (2.2) Honours degree, or international equivalent in any subject
Fees- £23,200 for international students for 2023/24
Scholarship- Scholarships of between £4,000 – £6,000 are available to new international students joining a postgraduate taught master’s degree in the Faculty of Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in the 2023/2024 academic year.
For further information – https://www.strath.ac.uk/