Program Overview
The Healthcare Technology & Management specialization within the Industrial Engineering & Management Master's program at the University of Twente equips graduates with expertise in optimizing healthcare processes. Combining knowledge of healthcare finances, technology, modeling, and simulation, the program enables graduates to implement new technologies in healthcare institutions, fostering high-quality care and innovation at minimal cost. Graduates are prepared for careers as healthcare technology developers, researchers, consultants, managers, and policymakers.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Overview:
The Healthcare Technology & Management (HCTM) specialization within the Industrial Engineering & Management Master's program at the University of Twente provides expertise in optimizing healthcare processes. It combines knowledge of healthcare finances, healthcare technology, mathematical modeling, and computer simulation to enable graduates to implement new business process technologies in healthcare institutions, fostering high-quality care and continuous innovation at minimal cost.
Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of decision-making processes in healthcare.
- Develop insights into uncertainties and their impact on simulation modeling.
- Recognize the limitations of methods used to inform healthcare decision making.
- Design simulation models that accurately reflect healthcare processes.
- Acquire skills in data analysis and machine learning approaches.
- Program advanced discrete-event simulation (DES) models.
- Develop a critical attitude towards value assessment in healthcare.
- Recognize and balance the needs of different stakeholders in healthcare provision.
- Value multidisciplinary collaboration.
Outline:
Content:
- Entrepreneurship in Technological Innovation: Focuses on the effective development and implementation of healthcare technology.
- Healthcare Logistics: Emphasizes the efficient and effective application of modeling techniques in healthcare organizations, particularly hospitals.
- Organizational aspects of hospitals from an Industrial Engineering and Management perspective.
Structure:
- Courses taught in collaboration with the Master's in Health Sciences.
Individual Modules with Descriptions:
- Decision Making in Healthcare: Develops skills for determining optimal care pathways for individual cancer patients.
- Advanced Discrete Event Simulation: Teaches how to optimize and tailor the use of innovations in healthcare through simulation.
Careers:
Potential Career Paths:
- Healthcare technology developer
- Healthcare researcher
- Healthcare consultant
- Healthcare manager
- Healthcare policymaker
Opportunities and Outcomes:
- Graduates are equipped to bridge the gap between technology developers and researchers, and new technologies and strategies with the demand challenges faced by care providers and patients.
- They can work on real-life cases during courses and their master's thesis, solving actual problems in healthcare organizations.
