Digital Health Systems

University of Strathclyde
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 12 Months MedicineHealthComputer science

About this course

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 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.

Our 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 and innovation and how to deliver real world digital health solutions in context and at scale.

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

2139 Information technology professionals
2119 Natural and social science professionals
2223 Speech and language therapists
3111 Laboratory technicians
2111 Chemical scientists
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers

Course Details

Qualification
MSc
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
12 Months
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Glasgow
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
Medicine, Health, Computer science