Health informatics Certificate

[stuart chitongo]

How can I get any training in health informatics or be certified as I wish to be more involved in this field.

[Dr. IK]

Hi Stuart,

You may check out list of Health Informatics Courses on link below or find similar course in your country.

http://healthinformaticsforum.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=2068976%...

All the best !

[Muzaffar Malik]

Also, we at the University of Otago in New Zealand offer a postgraduate diploma as well as an MSc in Health Informatics. It is a distance learning course with live online lecturer and extensive interaction with lecturers and other students. All you need is a computer connection. If you want more information let me know. My email address is [e-mail]

[Kathy Chorba]

Hello Stuart,
We've been offering our Masters in Health Informatics courses for several years, and are now happy to say we're putting the final touches on our Health Informatics Certificate Series - to be offered completely on-line, beginning in the winter of this year. Check out our website late next week and we should have course descriptions. In the meantime, the certificate will be 20-22 units, and is offered through University Extension

http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/health_sciences/certificate/healt...

The courses are: Introduction to Health Informatics; eHealth; Electronic Medical Records; Intro to Project Management; Intro to Databases; The American Health Care System; Decision Support; and Professional Development in the Health Informatics Field.

Good luck to you!

[stuart chitongo]

Thank you Kathy for the information. I will be checking the site from next week.

[Louise Woods]

Hi Chitongo
I would like to point you in a direction where there are scholarships available for people from developing countries. Here is the website, if you are planning towards studies in future.
I hope this will help your with planning and education strategy!
Regards
Louise

http://www.scholarships.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/internat/e-learning.htm

See also:
The Faculty of Health Informatics of the RCS that is involved in the online courses in Health Informatics: http://www.fhi.rcsed.ac.uk/site/2491/default.aspx#FAQ6

Best of luck!
Louise

[Dr.Neelesh Bhandari]

You guys actually provide synchronus online elearning in Healthcare!!??
Could you share more about the courses you offer? I am a relative veteran in this field and i have never come across courses in health informatics with synchronus online LMS.

[Ebone]

HiChitongo,
Good you've made a decision to join this field. You know Africa needs us.
i dont know in which country you are, but if you are in any of this countries; Malawi, Tanzania,Zambia, Ethiopia or South Africa you may be lucky. Log onto the University of Oslo's website and get into the Department of Informatics. This university in collaboration with universities in the above-mentioned countries offer Masters in Health Informatics course. There are a few scholarships available and private students are accepted. Even if you go in as a private student the fees are greatly subsidized. dont just dream of the field, GO FOR IT. I am doing the same course as a private student and all i have is a job as a volunteer. Let the sponsorship not deter your determination, go for it.
Wish you luck.
Ebone

[stuart chitongo]

Thanks Ebone. I am from Zimbabwe. I wi8ll try to log onto the website you gave me.

[Eyuel Tsegaye]

Sir, There is a graduate class started in health informatics in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa University.I am a second year student. Let me know some materials that I can share you. The curriculum includes subjects in the area of Public health, Information technology and Statistics.
Class begins once every year in September.

[Athar Haque]

You can browse www.ehcfsmi.edu.in for "Certificate course in Medical Informatics".

It is 3 month distant learning program.

Regards

[kambiz bahaadini]

Hi Stuart,

Recently, I completed a distance learning course in medical informatics. I found that really interesting and I would suggest you to start with and get its certificate.
www.amia.org and then go to 10X10 course
Cheers

Kambiz

[da-just]

Hiya all,
This is an awesome forum/blog. I just googled informatics and I landed here. Its been interesting reading all these replies and i have been trying so hard to enter into a program in health informatics/ telemedicine/ e-health. the main issue is scholarship.
also there arent many schools offering telemed or ehealth. I applied to University of Tromso, NOrway and i was rejected, reason? they said 'my first degree does not corelate with doing a masters in telemediine'. I must have studied medicine or a health related course, or strictly computer science.
So i ask you guys, I am interested in telemed, my 1st degree is Environmental Biology, I hav since moved in IT (Certificates and trainings in Cisco, Oracle DBA, etc) but I still have a passion for telemed since I was brought up as a doctors son and in an hospital environment. I wanted to study medicine but opted for biology as a 1st degree. My question is this: where can i find a school for training in telmed, ehealth, informatics etc and my 1st degree will not be an hinderance? They all state that i must be in a health related field or have studied computer scienec or watever as 1st degree. Can't a man change his mind? I need help here and fast please.