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Postgraduate Diploma in Health Science - PGDipHSc in Health Informatics

Health Informatics is a specialisation in the PGDipHSc programme offered by the School of Population Health in partnership with the Department of Computer Science.  The POPLHLTH and HLTHINFO courses in this specialisation are offered in a block learning format.

Students are required to enrol in, and complete, the following courses:

and 90 points from

  • COMPSCI 716 - Visualization
  • COMPSCI 732 - Software Tools and Techniques
  • COMPSCI 760 - Data Mining and Machine Learning
  • COMPSCI 780 - Postgraduate Project in Computer Science 1
  • HLTHINFO 722 - Special Topic
  • HLTHINFO 724 - Special Topic
  • HLTHINFO 730 - Healthcare Decision Support Systems
  • POPLHLTH 701 - Research Methods in Health
  • POPLHLTH 702 - Research Methods for Health Services
  • POPLHLTH 709 - Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-based Health Care (15 points)
  • POPLHLTH 721 - Health Management (15 points)
  • POPLHLTH 724 - Quality in Health Care (15 points)
  • POPLHLTH 729 - Information and Strategic Health Management (15 points)

A printable flyer is available for this subject.
Health Informatics Flyer (PDF, 110 KB)

To ensure you enrol on time, please follow steps 1-4 outlined in our Postgraduate Study section.

Click here for the PGDipHSc regulations.

For more information please contact:

Dr Karen Day
Programme Co-ordinator
School of Population Health
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 x 83870
Email: k.day@auckland.ac.nz
Mrs Kashmira Irani
Programme Administrator
School of Population Health
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 x 86549
Email: k.irani@auckland.ac.nz

Prof James ("Jim") Warren
Chair in Health Informatics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 x 86422
Email: jr.warren@auckland.ac.nz
 


Last updated: 3 November 2009