Prospective Students

The Centre for Health Informatics at Trinity College Dublin launched the MSc in Health Informatics in 1997. The course aims to equip students with the knowledge required to ensure that the health sector gets the best out of ICT.

The course takes up to 25 students each year from both health science and IT backgrounds. A key strength of the course is the way in which students from the two different backgrounds work together on projects, developing an understanding of where the other discipline is coming from and how to communicate with them.

The MSc in Health Informatics is a two year part time course, currently funded by the HEA Graduate Skills Conversion Programme.

Aims of the course

• to give students from a health science background a broad appreciation of the fundamentals of Information Technology
• to give students from a computing background a broad appreciation of the fundamentals of Health sciences
• to give students a comprehensive understanding of the role of Information Technology in the health sector
• to provide students with a good understanding of the principles underlying Health Informatics
• to study the application of Health Informatics with emphasis on both practice and theory
• to provide students with an appreciation of the medico-legal and ethical issues
• to provide the necessary supporting research methodology and demonstrate its application to practical problems