Health Information Science

Overview

Health Information Science from Western University - Canada will provide students with a fundamental knowledge in health and health care, including public health, health policy, and clinical health care, combined with expertise in knowledge organization and management, knowledge translation, patient information seeking behaviour and information ethics and policy.

Graduates with Health Information Science from Western University - Canada will:

• draw valid conclusions based upon sound analysis of reliable data and analyse major problems of the discipline in a spirit of creativity and critical inquiry;

• engage in and lead development of critical analysis of principles and techniques of research in the area;

• understand existing and emerging sources of recorded health information in its many forms;

• understand, through examination of relevant research, the needs of particular health user groups (e.g., health policy makers, health professionals, health vendors, patients, advocates and members of the public);

• understand the theoretical underpinnings and current issues associated with the study and application of knowledge translation in health;

• understand existing and emerging technologies in health information management applications / health informatics;