Digital health lawyers

120 ECTS

2025-2026

2 years

The Master's in Digital Health Law enables students to acquire in-depth theoretical and experiential skills (medical and health professions law, etc.) as well as cross-disciplinary skills (bioethics, ethics and deontology), based on a solid foundation of fundamental knowledge (legal knowledge of digital health, health data law). The opportunities offered by the Master's program are many and varied. The research dimension is also present.

Objectives

The entry of the care relationship into the digital era and environment places all players in the healthcare world before new imperatives: "The challenge, then, is no longer to dogmatically reject the intrusion of technology into care, but to think about, remind and even redefine its status as a tool that is expected and welcomed in the artisanal space of medical decision-making. In other words, to find the levers likely to induce the right positioning with regard to the tool"(KEMPF A. et E., "L'informatisation de l'aide à la décision : la décision médicale est-elle indemne ? L'exemple d'un outil prédictif en cancérologie", RFEA n°1, 2015, p. 48).

Renewed issues and logics are therefore calling into question the Law, a mechanism for framing social facts. New questions arise, and lawyers working in the field of healthcare need to master new knowledge, at the confluence of digital law and healthcare law.

The training offered must keep pace with these changes. This is the objective of the Master in Digital Health Law at the University of Montpellier.

Target audience

The Master's program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

• L3 students
• Also accessible through VAE and VAP programs

Course