Joint Master's Programme in Health Informatics

Education facts

Code: 5HI17

<p>The Master's Programme in Health Informatics is aimed at students who are interested in information technology and its application to the fields of medicine and health care. You will learn methods to make healthcare safer, more efficient and of higher quality through computer based information and knowledge management. Students may have their initial training in either the health sciences or computer and systems science. </p><p>The programme is given by Karolinska Institutet jointly with Stockholm University, and students receive a joint degree from both universities. </p><p>Digitalization in healthcare requires people with a solid understanding of both the needs of the healthcare sector and the strengths and limitations of technology. A health informatician's unique interdisciplinary expertise makes them particularly suited to assume a coordinating and bridging role between these two areas. Many health informaticians work as project managers. Other common roles are CMIO (Chief Medical Information Officer) or CCIO (Chief Clinical Information Officer), IT manager, clinical informatician, application expert, requirements analyst, system specialist, system developer, interaction designer, evaluator and researcher. </p>

Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree or a professional degree equivalent to a Swedish Bachelor's degree of at least 180 credits in healthcare, biomedicine, medical technology, computer and systems sciences, informatics or the equivalent. And proficiency in English equivalent to English B/English 6.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Joint Master's Programme in Health Informatics

  Karolinska Institutet

  Start date: 1 September 2025

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %