卧龙岗大学

Health services in Australia, as in most countries, are experiencing a surge of interest and investment in e-health. The Master of Health Informatics is designed to provide IT professionals with specific knowledge of health informatics and provide health professionals with a better understanding of IT within their industry.

You will study core subjects in Knowledge Engineering, Introduction to Health Informatics, Information Design and Content Management, and Concepts and Issues in Healthcare Computing. Depending on your previous qualifications, you will complete subjects from either an Information Technology or Health specialisation. You will also complete a Professional Practice and Research Project.

On graduation you will be equipped to:

develop national and state-wide strategies for departments of health;
manage major health informatics projects within and between organisations;
provide leadership in health informatics in public and private hospitals, with health system vendors, telecommunications providers and pharmaceutical companies.

Why choose this course

Information technology is one of the most significant forces shaping all aspects of modern society. The Faculty's strength in health informatics is supported by the Centre for IT Enabled Transformation, where researchers seek to make a positive impact in the key areas of e-heath, e-government, e-business and e-community.

World-renowned academic leaders covering a wide range of ICT majors are represented in the Faculty. Experts in areas such as IT policy and management, software engineering, cyber security, big data, artificial intelligence, pure, applied, financial and industrial mathematics, applied statistics, data mining, information systems, e-health, electronic commerce and robotics, work in close contact, creating an R&D synergy vital to propel future advances in ICT.

The Faculty is one of largest sites of ICT research in the southern hemisphere. It has strong industrial links with major international companies, collaborative research and development projects with partners in South East Asia, Europe and USA, along with research partnerships in China, UK, USA, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea and India.