Objectives and skills

Generic

• Describe and explain the history and values of Health Informatics and its relations with associated disciplines;
• Analyse and model a particular biomedical problem by identifying, implementing or validating a possible solution, through interactive and iterative processes;
• Work effectively with team members from different backgrounds;
• Use written and/or oral means to effectively communicate with audiences from different professional and/or scientific backgrounds.

Information Sciences

• Relate and model information systems with healthcare concepts;
• Explain and analyse the nature of data, information and biomedical knowledge;
• Understand and apply representations and data models;
• Recognize and apply the methods and processes used in the different Health Informatics contexts.

Health Sciences

• Know health concepts related to biology, biomedicine and public health and with common research issues;
• Understand the effective use of data, information and biomedical knowledge in healthcare, clinical research and health services;
• Analyse and assess ICT and Health Information Systems based solutions.

Technology assessment and Information Sys­tems

• Know the core concepts of social, organizational, cognitive and decision sciences;
• Know the fundamentals of human-centered systems design, scientific research methodology, ethical, legal and security issues;
• Understand the challenges and limitations of IT solutions;
• Design, implement and validate biomedical software applications;
• Understand the main methods and results of health technologies assessment studies, namely, the clinical, economical and social impact of Information systems.