UNSW Handbook Program - Health Informatics

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Program Description

Admission Requirements

Further Information

Related Program(s)

Area(s) of Specialisation

Program Summary


	Faculty: Faculty of Medicine
	Contact: tatjana@cse.unsw.edu.au
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Typical Duration: 1 Years
	Typical UOC Per Session: 24
	Min UOC Per Session: 3
	Max UOC Per Session: 24
	Min UOC For Award: 48
	Award(s):
	Master of Health Informatics (Specialisation)

Program Description

The Master of Heath Informatics and the Master of Health Informatics (Extn) programs are initiatives of the Centre for Health Informatics and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW. The Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) is Australia's largest research group in the emerging discipline of information and systems in healthcare and is internationally recognized for its groundbreaking contributions to the field. It conducts fundamental and applied research to map the complex nature of today's health systems, and designs scientifically rigorous and system wide interventions that will sustain tomorrow's health system.
CHI is affiliated with the UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and works closely with the School of Computer Science and Engineering and the Centre for Clinical Governance in the UNSW. Their research partners include the NSW Department of Health, the National Institute of Clinical Studies, and the Australian Department of Health and Ageing.

The Master of Heath Informatics is designed to prepare highly qualified health informatics (HI) professionals for a leadership role in understanding, developing, using and managing health information and communication systems. The MHI is also designed to equip clinicians with the skills, knowledge and problem-solving techniques required to implement health informatics into clinical practice. The MHI content builds on the principles and applications of health informatics with evidence based medicine, emerging protocol based medicine and intelligent decision support systems. The program is both academically rigorous and grounded in healthcare practice, involving direct contact with clinical work.

Note:

The program is tailored to meet the different needs of clinical and IT candidates, each undertaking specific core courses depending on their background. The MHI is designed for:

Health professionals who will have a role in using, implementing or designing information and communication technologies and information management techniques to improve the quality of health care, including clinicians or clinical managers, clinical academics and scientists wanting to use modern computational techniques in their research practice.
Candidates with a background in information technology interested in a career as an HI specialist, either wanting to understand the specific needs of the health care system for health information system development or to be able to work closely with health professionals and help them solve various HI problems.

Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The MHI will prepare candidates to work in:

Health care organisations
Government departments with health service delivery responsibilities
Businesses involved in the design and development of health information systems
Research institutions undertaking health service design research

Program Structure

The Master of Health Informatics is divided into two components, requiring a total of 48 UOC. These components are:

Core courses 36 UOC
Elective courses 12 UOC

Common Core Courses (24 uoc)

PHCM9911 Health Informatics Principles (6 UOC)
PHCM9912 Clinical Information Systems (6 UOC)
PHCM9913 Evidence Based Health Systems (6 UOC)
PHCM9914 Managing Information Projects (6 UOC)

Core for students with clinical background (12 uoc)

COMP9081 Harnessing the Power of IT (6 UOC)
PHCM9915 Intro to ICT for Health (6 UOC)

Core for students with IT background (12 uoc)

PHCM9041 Health Care Systems (6 UOC)
PHCM9304 Learning Clinical Reasoning (6 UOC)

Elective Courses (12 uoc)

BINF9010 Bioinformatics Methods and App (6 UOC)
PHCM9503 Statistics for Public Health (4 UOC)
PHCM9517 Advanced Biostatistics (4 UOC)
PHCM9741 Management of Change (4 UOC)
PHCM9902 AI in Health Care (6 UOC)
PHCM9903 Data Analysis, Data Mining (6 UOC)
PHCM9904 Res & Eval Methods: Informatic (6 UOC)
PHCM9922 Decision Support Systems (6 UOC)

The following two courses are also approved electives in the program:

IMGT5445 Information Management and Business Intelligence for Organisations and Industry (6 uoc)
IMGT5430 Health Information Management (6 uoc)

Academic Rules

Please refer to the Program Structure above and contact the School of Public Health and Community Medicine for further information.

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following web-page: https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

Admission Requirements

Applicants are required to have completed an appropriate undergraduate degree or approved equivalent and to have a minimum of two years' postgraduate experience.

Further Information

Public Health and Community Medicine

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