Digital Health Management (M.Sc.)

Digital Health Management (M.Sc.)

Faculty of Health Sciences (University of Applied Sciences)

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The Master's program in Digital Health Management at MSB offers a forward-looking and modern master's degree in computer science, medicine, and management.

The digitalization of the healthcare system offers enormous potential for improving patient welfare. Information and communication technologies will play an indispensable role in the future in providing healthcare services. Telemedicine will be widely used, the use of health records and health portals will continue to increase, and mobile offerings will become standard. To shape the digital transformation in the healthcare system, well-trained academics are needed who form a bridge between information technology, medicine, and the management of legal framework conditions.

The Master's program in Digital Health Management at MSB responds to this development and offers a forward-looking and modern master's degree in computer science, medicine, and management. Technical content is combined with medical and business content. The Master's program is aimed at graduates of business, computer science, and health science bachelor's programs and provides access to one of the most important fields of application in the healthcare system.

Prof. Dr. med. Ehsan Khaljani is Head of the Digital Health Management program.

The Master's program in Digital Health Management is state-recognized and professionally accredited.

Study content

Building on a first academic degree with a focus on health or economics, the Master's program further internalizes scientific concepts and critically reflects and evaluates them in the context of various occupational fields. You can also apply the insights to new and unfamiliar situations in business practice and deepen your knowledge and skills independently.

You gradually develop a holistic view of the individual areas of value creation in the healthcare industry. You are able to collect, evaluate, interpret, and integrate relevant information in complex initial situations. You also develop communication skills to be able to exchange with experts in the scientific community as well as with professional practitioners.

The Master's program in Digital Health Management is determined overall by four competence fields, which you will find presented in detail in the module overview:

• General subject competence
  
• Specific subject competence
  
• Occupation-related action competence
  
• Methods and social competence

In the practical and theoretical modules, aspiring Digital Health Managers are comprehensively prepared for the various fields of activity in the digitalization of the healthcare system. In the area of general subject competence, special, building economic competencies are conveyed.

In the context of specific subject competencies, topics are treated in depth in the context of the healthcare industry and with a view to industry-specific actions.

In the competence field of occupation-related action competence, you can apply your knowledge to a variety of occupational fields to novel and unusual questions of a company and master the concepts and tools necessary for this.

Within the competence field of methods and social competence, you acquire a wide range of transdisciplinary key qualifications in the Master's program that are required for specialists and managers in companies of all types.

Admission

Admission requirements at a glance:

• relevant university degree qualifying for a profession according to § 10 BerlHG
  
• completed Bachelor's degree in computer science, business administration, or health science
  
• For foreign study applicants, proof of education according to § 11 BerlHG
  

After your application, we will check your personal motivation in an individual admission interview. Convince us and show your strengths and talents.

Career

The federal government wants to embark on a digitalization offensive - and the Berlin metropolitan area is to be strengthened in particular. The plan is to develop the capital region into a model region for digitalization in the healthcare sector. From 2020, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) wants to test the use of selected digital applications, such as health apps, in practice in Berlin and the surrounding area - before they are rolled out across Germany. Spahn: "Germany can become a driver of innovation in digital health. We just have to dare to." The model project "Future Region Digital Health" is to have a central anchorage in Berlin/Brandenburg.

Digital health managers can mediate at the interface of product and healthcare system and help digital applications gain market access. Possible areas of application and fields of work include:

• Medical technology companies
  
• Pharmaceutical companies
  
• Software companies (app developers)
  
• Statutory health insurance and private health insurance companies
  
• Hospitals, outpatient healthcare facilities and nursing homes
  
• Public/state institutions (authorities, associations)

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