E-health in University of West of Scotland, UK

E-health in University of West of Scotland

OVERVIEW

Our e-Health course focuses on teaching the advance topics of e-Health including:

• Connected Health
• Digital Health
• Tele-Health
• m-Health

You will develop your practical skills through a comprehensive understanding of fundamental knowledge and hands-on experience of e-Health technologies within industry and academia.

Modules will focus on planning, analysing, developing, evaluating, deploying, and managing e-Health systems/services for modern day organisations/businesses.

All modules are designed to respect the overarching themes of e-Health, delivering research informed teaching in lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions; other modules will focus on academic, research and ethical practices within a professional environment.

In the course, unique and challenging modules are introduced, for example: Introduction to e-Health; Mobile networks and smartphone applications; Data mining and visualisation.

COURSE DETAILS

Our e-Health course was motivated by the growing importance of e-Health (Connected Health, Digital Health, Tele-Health, m-Health). According to grand view research, the total market size of e-Health will grow to £253 billion by 2022. In addition, the NHS has forecasted the funding gap of £30billion by 2020-2021 that can only be addressed by using smart technologies to reduce the cost.

Modules that you will study will focus on:

• Planning
• Analysing
• Developing
• Evaluating
• Deploying
• Managing e-Health systems/services for modern day organisations/businesses

CAREER PROSPECTS

Jobs

Examples of jobs available to you upon graduation include:

• Health Systems Designers
• Health Service Designer
• Data analysts
• Data mining analysts
• Knowledge management specialist
• Performance manager

Salaries range from £30,000 to £75,000.

Further Study

Successful completion of our course will prepare you for advanced research studies in related technology areas. If you so wish, you will have priority to study the MPhil/PhD degree courses.

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