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Digital
Health Management

Digitalisation, health sciences and management combined – for your career in the digital health sector! With the master degree programme in Digital Health Management, you become an expert in eHealth, digital transformation and innovative health solutions. Learn how to use technology strategically and sustainably, keep accessibility in mind and optimise processes. This is how you help shape the healthcare sector of tomorrow.

Application deadline:
18. May 2027

Rethinking the future of health – digitally

The healthcare sector faces major challenges: heavy workloads, scarce resources and analogue structures. Day after day, healthcare professionals achieve impressive results, often under difficult conditions. Yet it is precisely this commitment that shows how much potential our healthcare system has when the right impetus is given.

Do you want to help ensure that good prevention, health promotion and care remain possible in the future?

With our master degree programme in Digital Health Management, you will develop solutions for a healthcare sector that keeps pace with the times and with the people who sustain it. You will acquire scientifically grounded expertise in health sciences, Computer Sciences, management and digitalisation, and learn not only how to implement technology but how to use it meaningfully to make prevention, health promotion and care better, more efficient and more humane.

Whether in healthcare facilities, care homes, public institutions, the private sector or as an innovator of your own projects – you help shape how we rethink health together.

Prof.in (FH) Mag.a Barbara Prazak-Aram
Programme Director

Length of programme: 4 terms / 2 years

Scope: 120 ECTS credits

Degree: MSc (Health Studies)

Costs: € 363.36 per term plus Austrian Students’ Union fee (ÖH)

Applications open: 01. Sep 2026

Application deadline: 18. May 2027

Language: German

Competences

Health & Digital Technologies

Health Sciences and Planetary Health, eHealth, Medical Devices, Assistive Technologies, Digital Accessibility and Usability, AI, IT security and risk management & much more

Management, Leadership & Law

Communication and Negotiation Techniques, Organizational Concepts 4.0, eLeadership, Nonprofit Management, Innovation- and Changemanagement, Law for digital Health Management, ethical and diversity aspects & much more

Research & Practice

Acamdemic Literacy and Research Methods Seminar, Health Services Research and Analysis of Health Data, Project- and Research Management & much more

Individual Specialisation

In-depth specialisation in Digital Workplace Health Management or Twin Transformation: digital & ecological transformation

YOU WANT TO STUDY
Digital Health Management
BECAUSE ...

… you no longer want to stand by
and watch the healthcare system fall behind
in digitalisation.

… you are ready
to question old structures and develop new
digital solutions.

… you have the courage
to break new ground
instead of merely managing existing problems.

… you want to combine technology,
health and management
to create real innovation.

Typical groups of people who study with us

Digital Health Management brings together people from different professional backgrounds for pioneering collaboration. The master degree programme is ideal for…

Healthcare managers
Technology and innovation enthusiasts
Career changers
Inclusion and accessibility officers and socially engaged people
Professionals from education and social care
Health and nursing professionals
IT specialists

Your career after graduation

With this degree programme, you are not just preparing for a job – you are getting ready to drive the sustainable development of health in a wide range of fields.

Expert in digital transformation in healthcare
Interface manager for digital health solutions
Project manager for digital health projects
IT security specialist in healthcare
Change and innovation manager
Inclusion manager for assistive technologies (AT)

Specialisations – your personal career path

Choose one of two specialisations: deepen your interests and sharpen your profile for your individual career path.

Digital Workplace Health Management

In the “Digital Workplace Health Management” specialisation, you learn specifically how digital technologies can be used to promote health and well-being in the workplace. From analysing health data to implementing measures to improve working conditions – you acquire exactly the skills you need to succeed as an expert in workplace health.

Twin Transformation: digital and ecological transformation

With the “Twin Transformation: digital and ecological transformation” specialisation, discover how digital and ecological change in the healthcare sector can be driven forward together. From developing sustainable health solutions to integrating ecological aspects into digital transformation processes – here you become an expert in holistic and sustainable health services.

Curriculum

Compulsory curriculum | 102 ECTS
Public Health, Digital Health & Management – gain essential knowledge in health sciences, eHealth, management and digitalisation to actively shape the healthcare of tomorrow.

Elective curriculum | 18 ECTS
Set your own focus areas – choose between specialisations such as Digital Workplace Health Management or Twin Transformation to sharpen your profile.

Select term

Digital Health

Methods and Scientific Working

Public Health & Planetary Health

Future-Oriented Management and Organisational Development

Specialisations

Studying at FERNFH
Flexible, smart & affordable.

FERNFH Distance-Learning University of Applied Sciences is Austria's leading higher education institution for distance learning. Your FERNFH degree combines digital, self-directed self-study weeks with a small number of easy-to-plan on-campus sessions.

Flexible &
affordable study. 

Study largely whenever and wherever you like. Thanks to federal funding, our affordable range of programmes is designed to fit your life as closely as possible – not the other way round.

Self-directed
but never alone.

On-campus sessions you can plan ahead and self-directed self-study weeks let you learn in your own way. Via the Online Campus, you stay connected with fellow students and lecturers at all times.

Education that fits your career path. 

That’s why our degree programmes offer you individual focus areas or electives. Or you can extend your studies with Micro-Credentials from outside your subject.

How a term works

The distance learning programme is designed so that students work through most of the content in the Online Campus whenever and wherever suits them. Digital learning materials, exercises and opportunities for exchange are available there, so the learning process can be shaped individually and flexibly.

During the self-study weeks students set their own learning pace, access the learning platform at any time and use digital communication channels to clarify questions or connect with others in group work.

In addition, there are three on-campus sessions each term. These offer the opportunity for in-depth study, discussion, exams and practical application of the course content. This ideally combines direct contact with lecturers and fellow students with the advantages of digital flexibility.

Start of the semester

2 on-campus session days

On campus

Self-study weeks

Study anytime, anywhere

on the Online Campus

Mid-semester

2 on-campus session days

On campus

Self-study weeks

Study anytime, anywhere

on the Online Campus

End of the semester

2 on-campus session days

On campus

Shape the healthcare of tomorrow

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Your studies. Your way.

Learn more about the FERNFH study model, discover your admission options and find out how we support you along the way.

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