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.

The MHI (Extn) provides the opportunity for appropriate candidates in the Master of Health Informatics coursework progress to a Master of Health Informatics (Extension) with the completion of an 18 unit of credit major project and 6 additional units of credit of coursework.
Provision of a research project capitalises on clear emerging strength in HI research at UNSW, and provides candidates with the opportunity to determine whether they have the comitment and ability to progress to a PhD, through the conduct of a significant piece of research.

Total of 72 uoc including:

A. MHI - 9036 Health Informatics (48 uoc)

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B. 6 uoc of coursework

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

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

Candidates wishing to undertake the MHI (Extn) must achieve a minimum Credit average in the coursework component (MHI program 9036) and provide an acceptable research proposal.