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What is Health Informatics ? • HEALTH INFORMATICS (HI) - the knowledge, skills and tools that enable information to be collected, managed, used and shared to support the delivery of healthcare and to promote health [and wellbeing] • HI can be in or for the NHS and other care providers, commercial solution providers and in research and teaching 2 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

Treatment and care may be at risk without Health Informatics! • Information is needed to make decisions on care and treatment for patients and on managing health as a business • Patient safety relies on the right information being available to appropriate authorised professionals as and when required • …. Health informatics plays a part in effective, efficient and efficacious service delivery • Learn more about it, look at our website 3 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

What can I study? • Post-Graduate Certificate (1 year), Diploma (2) or Masters (3 years) • A Foundation Degree (2 years) and BSc top-up year • Modular University Certificates in HI at various levels (1 semester) • Applicants can also enter through an experiential route with no first degree, subject to informal interview • All study is suitable for satisfying continuing professional development for Agenda for Change and ‘fitness to practice’ registration, such as UKCHIP 4 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

How can I study? • Study is by a mix of e-learning, work-based assignments and periodic tutorials • Blended learning allows you to study when and where you want (within reason!) to take allowances for work schedules, family commitments and the odd unmissable football match! • Previous successful students are from ‘Canada to Cuerden’; work in care provider organisations, as commercial partners or at a strategic level in all the home countries 5 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

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How does HI make a difference? • supporting the NHS to collect and analyse information, monitor health trends and to make the best use of clinical and other resources • bringing together more information from more locations for effective decision making by all clinical professions • helping plan patient care delivered in hospital, through primary care or at home • making complex analyses and calculations about drugs, procedures and interventions more robust • moving towards 24/7/365 access to patient records by all authorised / authenticated staff, regardless of location, media or type of record / content 7 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

Where does HI happen? • Supporting healthcare delivery in hospitals, community locations and GP practices • Used by nurses, doctors, other clinical professionals and managers • Covers information about patients, activity and resources, strategic planning and performance monitoring 8 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

What do UCLAN Health Informatics courses contain? • The Health and Social Care context across the home countries • Information Technologies, Application Development • Business Change and Risk Assessment • Information and Data Quality and Information Governance • Learning research, presentation, statistical, project management, evaluation, analytic and searching skills • Understanding how the NHS designs, procures, develops and delivers its solutions • Looking into the future for telehealth, shared patient records and citizens involvement 9 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

Job potential from HI qualifications • Demands for qualified, experienced Health Informaticians are growing to around 200, 000 over the next few years (from 25, 000 now) (reference e-Skills report and NHS Workforce surveys) • Most students use their UCLAN HI qualifications to progress in their careers or enhance their knowledge skills in-post • UCLAN HI courses are also recognised for continuing personal development and professional registration; and UK NHS quality initiatives 10 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

Health Informatics helps to answer key questions • What pills, potions and interventions is Joe Bloggs having • Has this hospital got the current capacity to cope with the victims of a major accident that has just occurred • Is the health service locally as efficient, effective and efficacious as it could be • What is the best way to deal with blood clots • What will the local demand be for winter flu injections 11 More Information on www. uclan. ac. uk/healthinformatics

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