Develop the digital skills to take up the challenges of today's health sector:

Get the skills to manage challenging projects

This program will teach you powerful methodologies to manage innovative and collaborative projects, provide you with solid knowledge and agility when it comes to digital technologies: data, IoT, artificial intelligence and focus on ownership of the challenges of this ecosystem and its various stakeholders.

Develop a global scope & a large set of skills

Your challenge is not to become an expert in all fields, or an artificial intelligence expert but to acquire a large set of skills and develop a global scope including but not limited to: data, new technologies, managing disruptions, soft skills required by new process and know how.

Understand the specific needs of this industry

Innovation shift in the ecosystem have become a major challenge for companies, consulting firms, startups in all activity sectors but the health industry has its key specifics. Develop the mindset that will help you change this sector through an innovative learning path.

Discover a unique 360 degree approach

The first semester, from September to December, will focus on introductory concepts and knowledge and skills that will be required in your future professional life, mainly:

• Management tools, business project within emlyon business school “transforming early makers” (TEM) track;
• An introduction to big data and artificial intelligence;
• The pharmaceutical ecosystem.

During the second semester, from January to March, you will build on these subjects and develop your expertise.

Some seminars will take place in Saint-Etienne on the Mines Saint-Etienne campus and CHU (hospital units). The last trimester will take place in Asia (focusing on Asian business environment, Asian digital health trends, Intercultural management working on an in-company project together with other specialization courses).

Which positions are next?

Job profiles and positions will depend on your original background. The program prepares you for different positions, working with multiple stakeholders involved in the current transformation of the health industry’s value chain, potentially including:

• Consulting: most strategy and organization consulting firms have developed a specialization in the health sector, with the aim to supporting the various stakeholders in their transformation, including the digital transformation.
• Project or product management in pharmaceutical laboratories and/or medical device manufacturers: to respond to an increased demand for personalized and secure care, these stakeholders implement cooperative policies that strongly mobilize the use of data.
• Management/implementation of projects related to artificial intelligence in the health sector: digital transformation driver, digital business developer, functional consultant, business developer in med-tech startups, etc.
• Interface roles: connecting pharmaceutical or industrial medical device or diagnostic laboratories, innovative startups, healthcare facilities and other ecosystem stakeholders.
• Product/marketing within the AI environment: project manager or product manager in pharmaceutical laboratories and/or medical device manufacturers, etc.
• Business intelligence management: with the possibility of becoming Chief Digital Officer.
• The ethics of AI & health: compliance manager, CSR manager, data protection officer.
• Business development in med-tech startups: with the ability to integrate the languages and rules of both the startup and its clients, whether they are pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, hospitals or clinics.
• Depending on your initial studies, this course may also lead to one of the following roles:
  
  • Regulatory affairs manager (for lawyers)
  • Data privacy officer (for lawyers)
  • Compliance roles (for biologists or pharmacists)
  • Junior data scientist (for engineers, computer scientists or statisticians)
  • Data manager (for engineers, computer scientists or statisticians)