MSc Digital Health

The MSc Digital Health at Bournemouth University develops expertise at the intersection of computing, healthcare and human-centred design. It suits graduates from healthcare, computing, design or related fields who want to build, evaluate and manage digital technologies that support modern health and social-care systems.

Curriculum structure

Students begin with Health Information Systems, Human-Centred Design, and Programming and Prototyping, learning how to design health-data infrastructures, create user-centred interfaces and build functional prototypes for digital-health applications. They then progress to modules such as Persuasive Technology and Behavioural Change and Research Methods in HCI, gaining insight into how digital solutions influence health behaviours and how to evaluate usability, accessibility and patient experience. The degree concludes with an Integrated Digital Healthcare Project and an Individual Master’s Project, where students apply technical, analytical and design skills to develop a digital-health product or conduct applied health-informatics research.

Focus areas: “Health Informatics, Human-Centred Design, Digital Health Systems, Behavioural Change, Prototyping & Data for Healthcare”

Learning outcomes: “Design health-information systems; create and test user-centred digital-health tools; apply behavioural-change principles; evaluate digital solutions ethically; complete an applied digital-health project.”

Professional alignment (accreditation): Prepares graduates for roles in digital health, clinical informatics, health-tech development, public-health data analysis and patient-experience design across healthcare providers and tech companies.

Reputation (employability rankings): Bournemouth University is known for strong interdisciplinary teaching in computing and health, supporting good employability in the fast-growing digital-health and health-technology sectors.