Digital Health (Honours) Mohawk College

Overview

With the  Digital Health (Honours) degree from  Mohawk College you will actively engage in experimenting with digital health devices, such as wearable devices, and use creativity to analyze and visualize data to optimize the delivery of health care.

Highlights

• Use information technology such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence to improve health care systems.

• Learn programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, C# and PHP, as well as Unity, to create and use mobile health apps, electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs).

• Study in our state-of-the-art labs in our mHealth & eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC).

• Learn from case studies and presentations based on projects from Mohawk College’s mHealth & eHealth Development & Innovation Centre (MEDIC).

• Benefit from small class sizes in a practical hands-on learning environment while obtaining a degree in the cutting-edge field of digital health.

What you will learn:

• Develop health information technology solutions such as organizing and protecting patient information (medical history, test results, symptoms, etc.).

• Design digital health systems such as telehealth (a service that provides health advice at-a-distance) and telemedicine (a remote clinical service that provides personalized medicine).

• Create data visualizations, such as charts, infographics, maps and diagrams.

• Use data analytics to help build visual data representations, predictive models of disease transmission and treatment outcomes to inform doctor/patient decision making.

Career Opportunities

• Clinical Systems Analyst 

• Information Systems Analyst 

• Computer Programmer 

• Application Developer  

• Data Integrity Analyst 

• Database Architect 

• Information Privacy Coordinator 

• Health Records Technician 

• Health Systems Specialist 

• Project Manager 

• Health IT Consultant