Masters in Health Informatics and Analytics

Overview

IMU’s one-year full-time Master in Health Informatics and Analytics programme – also available part-time – provides the perfect pathway for recent graduates or professionals from various areas who intend to move their career into this area of the healthcare sector. This is also an ideal programme for current health and social care practitioners who are looking to gain additional knowledge and skills in digital innovation.Delivered by a multidisciplinary team of experts in computing and health-related disciplines, students in this programme will be able to learn about state-of-the-art technologies and systems, either related to IT (for example data analytics, mobile applications, sensors and wearables) or healthcare (for example electronic health records and remote monitoring).The programme offers an accelerated, modular and blended learning to provide more flexibility to working professionals in the form of online study options. In order to ensure a rounded understanding of the issues to formulate intervention and value creation strategies in class simulation or actual industry-based intervention, students will have to undergo a robust curriculum that involves lectures, tutorials, case studies, written assignments, group projects, presentations and discussion boards.

Entry Requirements

A. ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTSB. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTSFor all 3 programmes A bachelor degree or equivalent with minimum CGPA of 2.50 as accepted by the HEP Senate; orA Bachelor’s Degree in the field or related fields or equivalent with a minimum CGPA of 2.00 and not meeting a CGPA of 2.50, can be accepted subject to rigorous internal assessment. Internal GuidelinesStudents without a statistical background must take “Statistics Thinking for Health Analytics-2 credits” (Semester 1)Students without a computing background must take “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming – 2 credits” (Semester 1)For Malaysian Students Not applicableFor International Students IELTS : Band score 5.0; orTOEFL (iBT) : Overall score of 42; orCambridge English : Advanced (CAE) : Overall score of 154; orCambridge English : Proficiency (CPE) : Overall score of 154; orCambridge Linguaskill : Overall score of 160; orPearson Test of English (PTE) : Overall score of 47;The following categories of students are exempted from the above requirements:International students from countries in which English is the first language.International students who graduated from any Malaysian or other institutions where the curriculum is delivered in English.