Health informatics - needs, objectives and limitations, 5 credits

A Bachelor's degree or a professional degree equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits in health care, biomedicine, medical technology, computer and systems sciences, informatics or the equivalent. Knowledge of the English language equivalent to English B at Swedish upper secondary school.

On completion of the course the student should be able to:

Knowledge and understanding
- describe the subject of health informatics, both as an academic discipline and its practical application in health care as well as its history and development,
- illustrate different health informatics applications within care, nursing and research,
- describe the role that health informatics plays in today´s health care.

Skills and ability
- work in an interdisciplinary collaboration and in international/multi-disciplinary constellations.

Assessment ability and attitudes
- analyse and assess the need of information and advanced knowledge within care, nursing and research,
- develop and explain an international perspective for health informatics as a discipline.

The course describes the subject health informatics and its main aims and challenges – at present and in the future. The course gives an overview of different professional roles that a health informatician may have partly depending on work areas in clinical medicine, technical development, or research. In a project work, the students should develop an international perspective on the subject and reflect on their career possibilities.

Lectures, demonstrations, group work and seminars (international/interdisciplinary work groups indentifie current international/regional/local health informatics projects and professional organisations in the field  as well as career possibilities).

Oral presentation (Fail/Pass)
Written assignment (A-F)

The final grade on the course is based on the written assignment.

Compulsory participation
Paritcipation in the course registration and the end-seminar is compulsory.The course director assesses if and, in that case, how absence can be compensated. Before the student has participated in all compulsory parts or compensated absence in accordance with the course director's instructions, the student's results for the course/respective part will not be registered in LADOK.

Limitation of number of occasions to write the exam
The student has the right to write the exam six times. If the student has not passed the exam after four participations he/she is encouraged to visit the study counsellor.

The number of times that the student has participated in one and the same examination is regarded as an examination session. Submission of a blank examination is regarded as an examination. An examination for which the student registered but not participated in will not be counted as an examination.

Examination will be provided during a time of two years after a possible cancellation of the course. Examination can take
place according to an earlier literature list during a time of one year after the date when a major renewal of the literature
list has been made.

Course evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the guidelines established by the Board of Higher Education.

The course is given in English.