Teaching Areas

What is it?

Health Informatics staff support clinicians in developing their knowledge and expertise. They work with researchers in planning and implementing the studies that push at the boundaries of medical knowledge. They help find new ways of making vital services, such as laboratory test results, x-rays, and drug dispensing, faster and more foolproof. They develop systems to free up clinicians from routine paperwork, allowing them to spend more time treating patients. They work to cut waiting lists and to ensure that hospital beds are available when and where they are needed.

Why study it?

The health service is, of course, about treating illness and saving lives. It is also, increasingly, about helping people to avoid illness, about improving the quality of life, and about giving care, choice and dignity to all those with physical and mental health problems. If you have a genuine interest in developing new processes, procedures and systems which will support the health industry, this may be for you.