Graduate Program: Professional Master's in Health Informatics

CONCENTRATION FIELD:

• Health Informatics: Health Informatics combines the fields of Information Technology, Health, and Telehealth to develop systems necessary for managing the expansion of information, advancing clinical workflows, and improving healthcare system safety. It involves the integration of information science, health, and telecommunications to collect, organize, and ensure information and data systems related to health.

 

Research Lines:

 

• Information and Communication Technology in Health/eHealth: Production, use, and evaluation of information technology, both hardware and software, for better decision-making and improved patient outcomes. Integration of information technology with healthcare to support continuous improvement in patient care systems, project management, decision-making, quality assessment, and the operationalization and integration of health systems. Innovation, technology, health policy, and economics, as well as the legal and ethical principles in healthcare, health research, and its application. Research analysis in healthcare, information systems, and health technologies, data management, information and knowledge, as well as the use of health data for process improvement, cost containment, and safe healthcare. The history, application, impact, and future needs of Health Informatics.

To sustain this research line, the following thematic areas were established:

1. Methods and interventions for promoting mobility, ubiquity (persuasive technology), and accessibility.
2. Information security and management through effective organization, analysis, and use of information.
3. Patient safety and healthcare quality through tools, products, and approaches based on informatics.
4. Ergonomics and usability of systems, workflow optimization, and overcoming barriers.
5. Development and evaluation of information systems.
6. Predictive Modeling, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence (Big Data).
7. Informatics applied to e-learning – Deep Learning.
8. Emerging health technologies: IoT, cloud computing, and Health 5.0.
9. Accessibility and Assistive Technologies.
10. Syndromic surveillance systems.
11. Natural language processing and decision modeling.
12. Blockchain in Health.

 

• Telehealth: Development, application, and enhancement of techniques and methods in using telecommunications to provide health actions, counseling, and distance health education, utilizing internet resources, voice and video networks, and tele/web conferences. Development and evaluation of methods, products, and systems in teleconsultation and formative second opinions. Tele-research, tele-education, and telecare strategies. Network structure and security in Telehealth. Ethical and legal aspects in telehealth.

To sustain this research line, the following thematic areas were established:

1. Teleconsultation and Formative Second Opinion.
2. Management and Sustainability in Telehealth.
3. Development and Evaluation of Telehealth Initiatives.
4. Tele-research and Data Sharing.
5. Tele-education and Telecare.
6. Emerging health technologies: IoT, cloud computing, and Health 5.0.
7. Data Science in video telehealth.
8. Health Telemonitoring.