Healthcare Leadership Arcada University of Applied Sciences

Overview

The online master’s of Healthcare Leadership delivered by the  Arcada University of Applied Sciences will support you to become a change leader. The Nordic social and healthcare sector faces rapid shifts brought about by digitalisation, privatisation and demographic changes. Especially the development in health technology has with recent implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) evolved rapidly and calls for leaders that can understand and utilize health technology and effectively harness innovation.  

In this programme, you will be given the opportunity to explore new leadership techniques, discover your leadership strengths and expand your professional horizon. The programme consists of two main focus areas; Healthcare Leadership and Health Technology. 

Within  Healthcare Leadership we focus on the broad overview of leadership theories, change and transformational leadership, personal leadership behaviour, team-behaviour, cultural awareness, and systems thinking. You will get a broad overview of leadership theories and learn creative and critical thinking skills required for successful leadership. The focus on Health Technology provides a broad overview of health technology healthcare and focuses on healthcare leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

What you will learn

• Leadership competence
• Change and innovative competence
• Collective sensemaking competence
• Technological and ethical competence
• Applied advanced research competence

As development and digital communication is in focus, you will also strengthen your competencies to:

• Work proactively and multiprofessionally contributing to smart service development and digital communication with the client at the centre
• Compare and evaluate knowledge about digital innovations
• Understand the principles of user-centred service design to be applied in healthcare