Healthcare Management - Leading Digital Health Transformation

Digital solutions to healthcare problems are being developed at a rapid pace, and you are already using digital tools to support care delivery daily.



With the Professional Diploma in Leading Digital Health Transformation from RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management you will develop the knowledge, strategies and best practices to design future solutions that solve everyday problems, and enable and support the implementation of digital technologies in patient care across your healthcare organisation.



This is not a technical programme, but is however powered by leaders in technology, including Microsoft. Explore how to deliver better care through data analytics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, remote diagnostics, 3D printing and virtual care. Gain the knowledge and language needed to engage with technology experts and impact your care setting.



The programme is delivered part-time over nine months, through a blend of online content and activities and live interactive sessions, offering a collaborative and supported student experience. All webinars last for one hour, workshops run for 2.5-3 hours and live sessions are recorded.



This course is a Level 9 award on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications



Suitable for

This course is suitable for clinicians, interdisciplinary health and social care professionals, healthcare managers and administrators as well as those working in the wider healthcare sector who wish to knowledgeably influence and enable transformation in their organisations and across the wider healthcare system.

Module 1

The Digital Leader – Leading Self, Others and the Organisation

Develop self-awareness and interpersonal skills to lead and adapt in the dynamic digital healthcare environment



Module 2

Harnessing the Transformational Value of Digital Health

Understand digital technologies and assess their value for healthcare transformation and framework development



Module 3

Building and Sustaining Strategic Collaboration to Achieve Transformation: Patients, People and Partnerships

Learn to create patient-centric digital transformation strategies and critically evaluate models for your context

To apply for the Professional Diploma in Leading Digital Health Transformation, you must:



Hold a bachelor degree. (If you don’t hold a bachelor degree, see the recognition of prior learning pathway outlined below)



Be working in the healthcare industry



Meet the English language requirements: IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent score on another standardised test (certified proof should be uploaded with your application; see below for exemptions)



Recognition of prior learning

If you do not have an undergraduate degree at level 7 or above you may still be eligible to apply through recognition of prior learning (RPL). RPL is the assessment of knowledge, skills and competence previously acquired.



Learning occurs in many contexts which include work, involvement in social and community activities, or learning through life experience generally. RPL does not give credit for experience as such; rather it considers the learning that was acquired as a result of the experience.



RPL may be used to gain:



Admission to courses/programmes where a person may not have obtained the standard entry requirements.



Exemptions from course modules which duplicate the learning outcomes an individual has already demonstrably acquired through prior learning.



English language requirement exceptions

Exemptions may apply for:



Applicants who have completed their school or undergraduate studies (three or more years) through English in a country where English is the majority native language



Applicants who have completed their school or undergraduate studies (three or more years) in an English speaking institution in a country where English is not the majority native language and where an IELTS score of 5 or more was a requirement for admissions to the programme



Applicants who have been working in a country (three years or more) where English is the majority native language or for an employer where English language is the official language

Graduates of an RCSI Undergraduate, Masters or Professional Diploma programme in Dublin and Bahrain



Please note: Certified proof must be uploaded as part of your application.

9 months



Mode of delivery

Online - Part-time

Next start date 07 April 2025