eHealth is a rapidly-growing exciting and innovative interdisciplinary field concerned with the use of digital information and communications technologies (ICT) in the contexts of health service management, patient care delivery, citizen-centred health and healthcare research. Edinburgh Masters in Global eHealth online learning programme provides a unique opportunity to study health informatics with reference to global health challenges. Combining core courses with a rich portfolio of innovative modules delivered by international experts, the programme provides a foundation in the core principles and practice of health informatics whilst considering how innovations and policies are shaping the technology landscape, strengthening health systems and changing professional and patient behaviour.
The programme is interdisciplinary and is suitable for eHealth designers and implementers, healthcare practitioners, global development professionals, government policymakers, healthcare managers and CIOs, and academic researchers with interests in the role of ICT in health. The supported online learning format provides an opportunity to obtain a rich learning experience, interacting with your tutors and peers, whilst remaining in work. Students may enrol in the full masters programme (3 years, part time), diploma (2 years, part time) or certificate (1 year, part-time). Individual courses are also available for study.
Courses include:
- Introduction to Global eHealth
- Introduction to Health Informatics
- The Ethics and Governance of eHealth
- Telemedicine and Telehealth
- The Business of eHealth
- mHealth in High and Low Resource Settings
- Global Health Challenges
- User-centred Design
- Public Health Informatics
- Project Management
In the final phase of the programme students are be assessed on the basis of a structured research dissertation, based on a piece of original empirical research using a range of methods suited to the technology context and questions under investigation.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.ehealth.ed.ac.uk