Course Content

Course Structure

The course runs over two years, part-time. The first year consists of taught modules, with lectures September - May on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings to facilitate those in full-time employment. Given the nature of Health Informatics, there is a strong emphasis on practical team-based continuous assessment. In year 2 students receive instruction in research methodology and undertake an independent research project which is reported in the form of a dissertation.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this programme students should be able to:

• Evaluate the opportunities and limitations of Information and Communications Technology in improving the quality, cost-effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery
• Conceive and design effective user-centered systems to support medical work and decision-making.
• Effectively interface between health information systems developers and healthcare users of those systems to deliver the benefits of ICT in healthcare delivery
• Clearly express user requirements for information systems in healthcare according to standard methodologies
• Take appropriate action against ethical, legal, data protection and security risks of information technology in healthcare
• Evaluate health information systems comprehensively
• Undertake properly executed research in Health Informatics and present findings in an appropriate scholarly manner.

For more detailed information on each module, please look at the Course Outline.