Digital Health

Key features

• Explore the technologies transforming modern healthcare delivery and create positive change in healthcare accessibility and outcomes.
• The Digital Health program from La Trobe University gives you the technical training, research background and hands-on experience you need for a career at the forefront of digital health innovation.
• The advanced skills you gain in this course will take you from the classroom to the workplace, solving current industry challenges and implementing effective digital health strategies. You will specialise in either Advanced Practice or Applied Research and choose four electives to customise your course plan. This flexibility ensures you gain the expertise you need to reach your career goals.

Career outlook: Enter a growing, essential industry

There is high demand for digital health professionals who can use emerging technology to drive innovation in the healthcare sector. The Australian Government’s National Digital Health Workforce and Education Roadmap emphasises the need for a digital transformation of health services and identifies a skilled workforce as the key to meeting this need.

With the skills you gain in our online Master of Digital Health course, you can step into roles like digital health consultant, health informatician, digital health researcher, digital health transformation manager and technopreneur.

Courses include:

• Epidemiology and Biostatistics

• Big Data and the Internet of Medical Things

• Virtual and Telehealth

• Communicating Digital Health

• Systems Thinking and Leadership

• Digital Health Design and Implementation

• Strategic Digital Transformation of Health

• Trends in Digital Health