Graduate Diploma Healthcare Informatics

The course is primarily aimed at existing and future employees in the health service and IT industry sector who are looking to move into the area of Health Informatics, expand their current knowledge in the area, or get more involved in health IT implementation projects in their respective work locations. The assignments for the various modules are primarily focused on work-based topics, with these assignments being undertaken primarily as group or team work. This team-based process mirrors the actuality of IT systems implementation projects or health data / business intelligence analysis in this sector.

Course overview

Information management and the utilisation of associated technology is becoming a major activity of the healthcare professional. Our courses are designed to train graduates in medical and allied professions in healthcare informatics.

Course content (60 credits)

Core 40 ECTS:

Clinical Information & Decision Support Systems (10 ECTS)

Biostatistics and Data Management (10 ECTS)

Medical Records (5 ECTS)

Information Visualisation (5 ECTS)

Interoperability, Standards & XML (5 ECTS)

Information Governance in Health (5 ECTS)

Options 20 ECTS:

Data Programming with R (5 ECTS)

Artificial Intelligence in Health (5 ECTS)

Health Data – What is it and where does it come from? (5 ECTS)

Corporate Information Systems in Health (5 ECTS)

Informatics Systems Implementation in Health (5 ECTS)

Human Computer Interfaces (5 ECTS)

Artificial Intelligence in Health (5 ECTS)

Data Programming with R (5 ECTS)

Personalised Medicine (5 ECTS)

Data Mining in Health (5 ECTS)

Medical Devices and their connectivity (5 ECTS)

Clinical Biomarkers (5 ECTS)

Bioinformatics (5 ECTS)

AI for Pathology and Histopathology (10 ECTS)

AI for Medical Image Analysis (10 ECTS) 

The lecturers will come from both UCD and the Health Service to ensure an appropriate mix of theory and application in the content.

Eligibility criteria

• Candidates should possess a primary University degree in Medicine or in an allied profession, or a primary degree in the area of Information Technology and experience working in the healthcare industry.

• International applicants should contact the academic programme director for a full list of entry requirements.
• Click this link and follow the steps outlined
• More information for international applicants is available on the Course Finder page.

Important dates

• The next intake for Graduate Diploma Healthcare Informatics is September.

Apply Online

• Click here and follow the steps outlined.
• Scroll to the bottom of the course page and click the (yellow) APPLY button.
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• Please complete all the ‘Required Application Tasks’ to submit your application.
• To help you complete your application, we have created a comprehensive video guide about how to fill out the application. 

• For information on costs, please visit the UCD Fees page.