MSc in Health Informatics programmes
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This programme is CILIP accredited
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The MSc in Health Informatics programme has been completely revised for 2008. There are now three separate programmes, each delivered by distance learning. Please refer to the details for the programme in which you are interested.
Information is at the core of health care services throughout the world. It is important in ensuring that healthcare and health services are delivered effectively and efficiently. Health Informatics is a relatively new discipline which seeks to maximise the use of this information. Although `health informatics´, has no standard definition, it is concerned with the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and information in health to improve the organisation, management, and ultimately the overall quality, of care for patients, their families and carers, and the general public.
Health Informatics is a rapidly developing field that is increasingly viewed as a key driver in modernising health services and in ensuring that patients receive the best possible care. The delivery and use of information within healthcare is particularly important as technology changes so rapidly, for example, the development of electronic patient records, the advent of online communities, the development of new imaging techniques, etc. ICTs present an exciting opportunity to improve how information is collected, stored, retrieved, analysed and shared in health care. ICTs also facilitate communication between different people involved in the processes of health care, i.e., patients, health care professionals, managers and planners of health services.
Improving the way that information is used in healthcare requires health care professionals, managers, library and information specialists and other professionals in the health sector who have developed appropriate skills through high quality education and training. With this in mind, the new MSc in Health Informatics programme has been developed with multidisciplinary contributions from the Department of Information Studies and the School of Health and Related Research.
You may be interested to read this article in the Independent newspaper, (09/07/2008), in which one of the students on the MSc Health Informatics programmes discusses benefits of undertaking the course at the University of Sheffield.
This international version of the programme is delivered by distance learning, and is open to potential students from across the world.
This programme is run in collaboration with City Liberal Studies, Thessaloniki.
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MSc in Health Informatics
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