Joint Master's Programme in Health Informatics

Modern healthcare is dependent on the efficient management of information and knowledge. The development of computer-based systems to support this involves the cooperation of several professional groups. The competence needed for successful results constitutes the subject field of health informatics.

Programme presentation

Health informatics is a field that covers the study of methods and techniques for the collection, management and evaluation of medical information. Health informatics is important for the efficiency of information management in clinical research and healthcare and, ultimately, for achieving safer high quality care provision.

Career

IT projects in health care require professionals with a solid understanding of both healthcare needs as well as the possibilities and limitations of technology. The health informatician’s unique interdisciplinary expertise makes them particularly suitable to assume a coordinating and bridging role between these two areas. It is therefore not surprising that many health informaticians work as project managers. Other roles are IT leader, clinical information specialist, application expert, requirements analyst, systems specialist, system designer, interaction designer, evaluator and researcher.

Programme outline

The first term of the programme gives students with a background in healthcare a knowledge base in computer and systems science, and students with a technical background a knowledge base in medical science and healthcare organisation. For their second term, students select either a clinical or technical specialisation and, in addition to the courses common to both, the former group of students acquire knowledge about how to lead processes of change in the healthcare services using information technology, while the latter group delves more deeply into advanced methodology. Alongside the theoretical courses in semesters two and three, students attend case study courses. Both semesters conclude with project courses that offer the independent application of methodology. The fourth semester is devoted to the degree project.

Teaching is done in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet.

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Programme requirements

To qualify for this programme, you need to have a Bachelor's degree or a professional degree equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits in healthcare, biomedicine, medical technology, computer and systems sciences, informatics or the equivalent.

Language proficiency

Swedish upper secondary school course English B or:

• IELTS (International English Language Testing Service)- Academic Module: Overall minimum score of 6.5 (with no section below 5.5).
• TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
  • Paper Based: Overall minimum score of 575 (with minimum score 4.5 in the written test)
  • Internet based : Overall minimum score of 90 (with minimum score 20 in the written test)
• University of Cambridge and Oxford: Certificate in Advanced English or Diploma of English Studies

Application

Note! For applicants without an EU/EEA/Switzerland residence permit the last application date will be January 15. For applicants within the EU/EEA the last application date is April 15. The application procedure for the first deadline will open on October 17st at Antagning.se.