How digital is our healthcare? And who ensures that technology actually helps?
Digitalisation is an important lever for making our healthcare system fit for the future. Preventive care apps, digital patient records, health data at the click of a button—sounds like the future, right? This is exactly where digital health comes in. After all, digitalisation should not only modernise our healthcare system, but also improve it. But that won't happen on its own.
Why is healthcare lagging so far behind other fields when it comes to digitalisation? And what actually happens to our sensitive data? In order to develop digital solutions that meet our needs and use them sensibly, we need people who know how to handle health data securely and intelligently – and who can manage the changes in clinics, health insurance companies, and other organisations effectively. Does this sound like you? Then you will learn how you can help shape the future of healthcare during your studies.
The future of healthcare is digital — and our students are helping to shape it.
Prof. Dr. Christophe Kunze Entry requirements
To apply for AGW - Digital Health, you need a university entrance qualification, i.e. either a general university entrance qualification (Abitur), a subject-specific university entrance qualification, a technical college entrance qualification, or equivalent prior education. No special technical skills are required. However, curiosity and a desire for change are essential.
AGW - Digital Health specifics
Would you like to help advance the digital transformation of healthcare? Then you can acquire skills in the Digital Health specialisation that will enable you to design health technologies such as health apps or digital care concepts such as telecare. Or you can use these skills to advise people on how to use technology and support organisations in introducing digital care concepts.
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Your career prospects
This area of specialisation targets new professional fields in healthcare, for which academic professionals are trained in an interdisciplinary manner with a focus on the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation.
Graduates of the programme with a specialisation in digital health take on interface roles between experts in technology and health as well as users of the healthcare system, thereby helping to shape innovation processes in healthcare that aim to improve the quality of care. Possible fields of work include technology companies, consulting firms, research, health insurance companies, projects at various healthcare and social service providers, and many more.
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