Digital Healthcare

Master degree programme

Degree: Master of Science in Engineering (MSc)
Duration & Organisational Form: 4 semesters, part-time programme
Study Places & Start of Course: 24 places/year, winter semester 2023/24
Tuition Fees/Semester: EUR 363.36 (for students from third countries: EUR 1,500) + student union fee
Application Deadline: 30/06/2023 2023 (for available free places); (Third-country nationals can no longer apply for the WS 2023 (with the exception of Ukrainian citizens))

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Linking Digital Technologies and Healthcare

Shape technical innovation within the healthcare sector! Health and technology experts together learn methods and technical tools to conceive and develop concrete solutions for digital healthcare. You chose from the following specialisations:

Health Technology Development
Health Technology Assessment

The focus is on practical benefits. That way you develop concrete solutions for prevention, diagnostics, therapy and care - e.g. mixed reality visualizations in radiology and sensor-aided soles for gait rehabilitation.

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Top Career Prospects

The graduates become experts in the interdisciplinary design, implementation, evaluation and development of healthcare scenarios with the aid of digital technologies. Their expertise is needed in the entire healthcare sector, e. g. by social security, hospitals as well as industrial and research institutions and in IT-driven healthcare companies.

Links between Research and Education

Information and communication technology is playing an increasingly important role in the health sector. We conduct innovative, interdisciplinary research at the interface of health, social and digitalisation and bundle the expertise and energies in the Center for Digital Health and Social Innovation.

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“This master degree programme has provided me with the opportunity to change careers, moving from healthcare (radiology technology) to IT healthcare."

Anna Springer, BSc, MSc

Projekt Manager and Product Owner at x-tention

“Digital healthcare is an emerging field. It will transform healthcare in the post-COVID era through the use of digital technologies.”

Prof. Daniela Haluza

Public Health Expert at the Medical University of Vienna

“The integration of digitised health-related information into workflows and processes can help make the treatment of patients more effective in the long run. The massive use of digital medical data heralds a new era in evidence-based treatment and allows for healthcare models that are considerably more patient-oriented.”

Mag. Beate Hartinger-Klein

Hartinger Klein Consulting GmbH

“I find the new approach in the master degree programme Digital Healthcare of supporting healthcare processes with media technology very interesting and promising.”

Bernd Wisgrill

Student in the master degree programme Digital Healthcare

“Even in the rapidly growing world of physiotherapy, the technologisation in the form of digital applications is still in its infancy. The master degree programme Digital Healthcare provides inputs and possibilities for innovative ideas and their implementation – so we can speed up this development.”

Philipp Gahleitner, BSc

Student in the master degree programme Digital Healthcare, freelance physiotherapist