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Health Tics Programme

The document summarizes a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences in Health Informatics. The diploma is aimed at healthcare professionals looking to advance their careers utilizing health informatics. It covers topics like principles of health informatics, health knowledge management, and software/data tools. Graduates will gain skills in using information technology to improve healthcare delivery, develop evidence-based practices, and inform health policy. The diploma consists of core and elective courses and leads to career opportunities in areas like project management, data analysis, and clinical informatics.

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Health Tics Programme

The document summarizes a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences in Health Informatics. The diploma is aimed at healthcare professionals looking to advance their careers utilizing health informatics. It covers topics like principles of health informatics, health knowledge management, and software/data tools. Graduates will gain skills in using information technology to improve healthcare delivery, develop evidence-based practices, and inform health policy. The diploma consists of core and elective courses and leads to career opportunities in areas like project management, data analysis, and clinical informatics.

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Where could this Diploma take me?

The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences in Health Informatics is ideal for people working in the healthcare sector who want to work towards a promotion or to shift their career focus. After completing the Diploma, career opportunities may include: Business Requirements Manager Project Manager Customer Support Analyst Business Analyst Data Warehouse Manager Support Consultant Program Manager Clinical Information Analyst Health Informatics Analyst Information Analysis Manager Clinical Product Co-ordinator Clinical Coder

Interested in the programme?


For more details visit our website below and click on Health Informatics in the subject list. From here you can reach us online, just click on Expression of Interest and fill in your details and we will contact you.

www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/faculty/postgrad
or to contact us: Prof. Jim Warren, Chair in Health Informatics Phone email +64 9 373 7599 ext 86422 [email protected]

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HEALTH SCIENCES IN HEALTH INFORMATICS

Dr. Martin Orr Phone email +64 21 784 381 [email protected]

Karen Day Phone email +64 9 373 7599 ext 83870 [email protected]

The Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences in Health Informatics


Everything that happens in healthcare involves the collection, use and storage of information so that our healthcare professionals, managers, policy makers, researchers and many others are able to offer the best healthcare available. This means that we need to manage the actual information accurate information results in effective health care services. Health informatics is what this is all about the creation, storage and use of information linked to the delivery of healthcare. One of the best ways to do this is by using information technology so that we can use the data, information and knowledge that are inherent in our work as healthcare providers.

Programme Objectives
The main objectives are to: examine the benefits and limitations of IM&T in health enhance use of evidence-based medicine develop capacity for planning and delivering knowledge-based services inform health policy makers and strategists regarding the role of health informatics help information technologists in the development and implementation of integrated care solutions

Programme Structure
Core courses towards this programme are:
Principles of Health Informatics 15 points Semester 1 Health Knowledge Management 15 points Semester 2

Plus 90 points of courses chosen from:


Healthcare Decision Support Systems Visualization Software Tools and Techniques

Learning Outcomes
Graduates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles of health informatics insight into the benefits and limitations of IM&T; skills in using information for continuous improvement in healthcare delivery capacity to work in the health team ability to identify information needs for health services

Data Mining and Machine Learning Postgraduate Project in Computer Science 1 Special Topic Information Systems Management Enterprise Systems Project in Information Systems Information Systems Technology Project Management Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-based Health Care Health Management Quality in Health Care Information and Strategic Health Management

Why study Health Informatics?


Understanding the role of health information, how it affects the health system, the ways in which people work and the delivery of population based healthcare, gives us the skills for planning, delivery and evaluation of our healthcare system. This is applicable in primary care settings, in hospitals, public health and the Ministry of Health. As well as putting Health Informatics in context, this Postgraduate Diploma will complement your current health qualifications and help you develop new skills in terms of health management, research, evaluation of health services and policy development.

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