Health Sciences
Using technology and innovation to improve healthcare.
Do you want to know all about new health technologies, such as using smartphone monitoring data to improve medical diagnostics, or developing computer simulation models that can help to minimize waiting times? Are you curious about the impact of such new technologies and how they can best be deployed? Would you like to be able to predict trends in healthcare, or to optimize care processes for the patient? If so, this Master’s in Health Sciences at the University of Twente (UT) may be the perfect choice for you.
The Health Scientist is an expert in improving the quality, efficiency and safety of healthcare. Using new technologies, healthcare is optimised.
The program Health Sciences
The program Health Sciences at the University of Twente focuses specifically on the investigation of the effects of technology on healthcare and the optimisation of the results. You will not become a doctor, not a practitioner, but you will try to shape the care for the patient as efficiently as possible. This requires a view of the entire process, from diagnosis, treatment until the release from the healthcare facility. During this investigation, you constantly try to improve the entire process, sometimes by using new technology and sometimes by using a new form of organisation.
The education in Twente focuses mainly on the questions around the care for chronic diseases. This aspect of healthcare needs the biggest part of the healthcare budget of the country. This part will only get bigger and bigger, with the ageing society and the associated illnesses.
To cope with the diversity of questions in healthcare, education combines the biomedical, psychosocial, economical, organisational and social aspects of health, illness and healthcare.
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