Master Health and Digital Transformation

Are you interested in digital technology and healthcare? Do you want to help translate and facilitate healthcare innovations for patients, citizens, and professionals? If so, this master's program is the right fit for you. You'll have the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills directly in practice and advise organizations on how to navigate through digital challenges.

Fast facts

• Unique master's program
• Focus on the digital transformation in healthcare
• Practice-based, interprofessional and interactive
• Registration deadline: 1 July 2023
• Registration deadline non-EU: 1 June 2023

Why this program?

There is a need to transform healthcare

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the development and use of digital technology and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare. Healthcare organizations, citizens, patients and healthcare professionals need to adapt to a new way of healthcare.

The transition to a more digital healthcare process is not self-evident

Technical and digital applications in healthcare often fail to get off the ground. To make the most of technology in healthcare, it is essential that applications meet user needs, work correctly, are usable, feasible, and beneficial, that technical systems are connected, relevant information is exchanged quickly and securely, and digital applications are seamlessly integrated into the healthcare process.

The best of both worlds

The digital transformation of healthcare requires individuals who can bridge the gap between technology, data science and the healthcare industry. This program emphasizes practice-based, interprofessional education and research, with a focus on healthcare, data science, law, information science, nursing, and technical medicine. As digital intelligence becomes an increasingly important skill in the workforce, this program will provide you with the opportunity to develop in unprecedented ways

The Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences started on 1 January 2007. The faculty was the result of a merger between the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine.

Medicine

The Faculty of Medicine was the first faculty to be established at Maastricht University. The University was officially established on the 9th of January 1976, although the first medical students began their studies in September 1974. The Faculty of Medicine was the second in the world that applied the Problem-Based Learning method. The other faculties of Maastricht University , i.e. Arts and Culture, Economics and Business Administration, General Sciences, Health Sciences, Law, and Psychology adopted educational systems and research organisations akin to that of the Faculty of Medicine.

The Faculty developed into a community with a staff of around 1200 (academics, administrative and support staff), and approximately 1950 medical students. Since 1992 staff and students are based at the complex of buildings of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, and the University Hospital (Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht) which opened in 1991.

Health Sciences

The Faculty of Health Sciences offered a broad range of disciplines that made the faculty unique, not only in the Netherlands but also in Europe. The format allowed students to integrate their discipline and research work into all areas related to society, sickness and health. By way of research and specific (undergraduate and postgraduate) education, the Faculty of Health Sciences contributed to the quality improvement in healthcare.

At the moment the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences has some 2,500 students enrolled in its broad spectrum of educational programmes leading to a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree. Health Sciences examines the relationship between health, lifestyle, disease prevention, care and cure. The Health Sciences curriculum covers the entire field of health sciences: biological, behavioural and social health sciences. Three questions take centre stage throughout the course:

1) What is health? 2) Which factors influence health? 3) How can we influence these factors?

To ensure a good quality of health care not only doctors are needed, but nurses and paramedics are also important, too. But also the expertise of other professionals is essential: the health scientists.