MSc Health Informatics Joint Degree

Health informatics is a practical thing, the discipline is an engineering discipline and deals with the use of information technology to improve organization and delivery Recently there has been a big shift in healthcare, and the need to train healthcare informatics there are a significant number of career opportunities in healthcare informatics and they are growing and growing and growing from technical infrastructure engineers data analysts to electronic integration of patient systems of record developers engineers data scientists are diverse and vast to create a joint program what we're essentially doing are drawing not just on the expertise of one academic organization or drawing on two, we're working with two health systems in the UK and at this cosmic moment in digital health, we have over 200 people who are leaders in health innovation informatics, with whom the subject is taught in blended learning, meaning online and face-to-face activities an activity that we work very closely with NHS organizations here in the Manchester region and nationally as well as companies active in digital health and which provides opportunities for students to do projects in these and chess organizations in such GPs and hospitals and also in these companies to work in in the field of digital health, the course will be embedded in a university research environment and delivered by leading international researchers working in the field, so we also work with doctors and patients to develop and evaluate digital technologies for healthy, usually students play a role in society design and subsequent development, such as military the software that makes this program stand out from your health, as well as programs in the uk, it is above all is the basis of the NHS graduate but the management training system will train the next generation of health informatics in the UK working for an NHS organization we know we are looking for fresh graduates it is a professional activity is the ability to understand data graduates move to a wide range roles, many of them leaving for the NHS managing implementation projects that are transforming NHS services, some of them staying with us to study for a Ph.D. doing a degree in health informatics really gives you a lot more, there are several national opportunities and local organizations appreciate some of that expertise, but it's also a real benefit you can bring to the health system and getting a degree I think opens a lot of doors for you.