Health Information Technology  provides advanced interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills, preparing graduates to work collaboratively with physicians, nurses, healthcare managers, and IT specialists. Graduates are actively engaged in acquiring clinical data from diverse sources, ensuring data integrity, performing information analysis, addressing legal and ethical considerations, and designing and implementing structures for health information systems- all in service of delivering high-quality, evidence-based care.

 

Program Objectives

Training competent and committed individuals to achieve the following objectives:

  •  To identify and meet the information needs of users at various levels of healthcare in clinical, educational, and research activities
  •   To develop and utilize information technology tools and techniques (including data collection, classification, analysis, and dissemination) through all types of media, both manual and electronic.
  •   To foster information-based healthcare thinking in healthcare organizations.
  •  To expand knowledge of information and healthcare based on research.

 

Duration of Program  2 years

 

Curriculum

Number of Core units: 20

Number of Noncore units: 6

  Number of Thesis units : 6 

 

 

Admission Requirements 

 In accordance with the Ministry of Health guidelines