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Health Informatics and Health Management Education at Central Queensland University
Yearbook of Medical Informatics
|October 5, 2016
Summary
Health informatics education in Australia is emerging, with Central Queensland University pioneering postgraduate programs. Distance education delivery has been key to expanding access for health informatics and management students nationwide and globally.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Educational Technology
Background:
- Health informatics education is a developing field in Australia.
- Central Queensland University initiated postgraduate programs in health administration and information systems in the early 1990s.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe the development of health informatics and management courses.
- To outline planned future developments in health informatics education.
Main Methods:
- Leveraging a long-standing tradition of distance education.
- Developing combined health informatics and management courses.
- Enabling flexible program delivery to a geographically dispersed student base.
Main Results:
- Successful establishment of postgraduate health informatics and management programs.
- Facilitation of program access for students across Australia and internationally through distance education.
Conclusions:
- Distance education is a viable and effective model for delivering health informatics and management programs.
- Central Queensland University's approach provides a scalable model for future health informatics education development.
