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Health Informatics – (M.Sc.)
Stockholm University
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
| Application Deadline: | January 16 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | Free - ≈ € 15,160 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Stockholm / Sweden / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 120 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Stockholm University
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.
Contents
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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Requirements
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 equivalent field. English B (Swedish upper secondary school course) or equivalent, or one of the following tests: IELTS: 6.5 (with no section below 5.5). TOEFL (paper based): 575 (with minimum score 4,5 in the written test). TOEFL (internet based): 90 (with minimum score 20 in the written test), University of Cambridge and Oxford: Certificate in Advanced English or Diploma of English Studies.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 575 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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