The programme will develop individuals with the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to understand and critically evaluate electronic healthcare data in a manner compatible with innovative commercialisation opportunities.
The course will:
- Provide professionally relevant teaching and learning of the knowledge and skills that underpin, and are at the forefront, of successful understanding and utilisation of electronic healthcare data.
- Develop, create and upskill healthcare data experts with the necessary expertise, and originality of application, to pursue and expand their roles in the context of the rapidly evolving environment of electronic healthcare data
- Promote a comprehensive understanding of the practical and ethical considerations relevant to healthcare data, informatics, innovation and commercialisation.
- Ensure a systematic understanding of the skills and knowledge required to facilitate the development of critical thinking, and appropriate analytical and problem-solving skills relevant to the utilisation of healthcare data.
- Provide work relevant learning and practical expertise in the context of a critical awareness of current problems, best-practice, challenges and potential solutions in the use of healthcare data.
- Instil a critically reflective approach to the development of innovative and commercially viable application of healthcare data.
- Create a professional network of like-minded individuals as leaders in the field of healthcare data commercialisation.
- For students completing the PgDip or Masters programme provide students with the skills and
knowledge to execute the entire process from initial curiosity driven database queries, through to data analysis and visualization, completing with data entrepreneurship, commercialization, and digital marketing. And for Masters students to do this in a work-relevant and practical manner via their research dissertation.
