Start of activities: 2018
Degree: academic master’s
Total credits: 24 credits
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About the program
The Graduate Program in Information Technology and Healthcare Management aims to train qualified professionals in the areas of management and IT capable of interacting with other disciplines and producing solid scientific knowledge.
Graduate profile
The academic foundation will enable the program graduate to operate critically and reflexively in transformative management and technology actions. Among the focuses of the graduate program is the development of the ability to solve complex problems related to the fields of Computational Modeling and Simulation, Intelligent Systems, and Information and Knowledge Management.
Infrastructure
The program has a support room, research and computer labs, and library, which provide students with dynamic and articulated action in the areas of information technology and health management.
Focus areas
- Intelligent Information Technologies
- Research line: Intelligent Systems and Applications in Health
- It proposes to investigate the use of information technologies in health, seeking the study, development and application of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, and Modeling and Simulation as tools of analysis, operational support and decision-making support in the health area.
- Healthcare Management
- Research line: Information and Knowledge Management in Health
- It proposes to investigate techniques, methods, and standards related to health management, aiming to align the use of technology with the real need of the manager, as well as working with strategic, tactical and operational vision, seeking the mapping of processes as a way of understanding its complexities.
Courses
Common Core Courses
- Advanced topics in information technology and healthcare management (30h - 2 credits)
- Public policies in health informatics (30h - 2 credits)
- Scientific writing (30h - 2 credits)
- Research methodology (30h - 2 credits)
- Information systems for healthcare management (30h - 2 credits)
- Research seminar (30h - 2 credits)
Research line: Intelligent Systems and Applications in Health
- Computational intelligence and machine learning (45h - 3 credits)
- Performance analysis for mobile device applications in health (30h - 2 credits)
Research line: Information and Knowledge Management in Health
- Strategic management (30h - 2 credits)
- Innovation process and intellectual property (30h - 2 credits)
Optional Courses
- Text mining and natural language processing: techniques and applications in the health area (45h - 3 credits)
- Project management (30h - 2 credits)
- Informatics and health indicators (15h - 1 credit)
- Biostatistics (30h - 2 credits)
- Health operations management (30h - 2 credits)
- Management of care and administrative processes (30h - 2 credits)
- Standards in health Informatics (30h - 2 credits)
- Probabilistic models and simulation in health (30h - 2 credits)
- Special advanced topics (30h - 2 credits)
- Health services marketing (30h - 2 credits)
- Evidence-based software engineering (30h - 2 credits)
- Introduction to biomedical signal processing (30h - 2 credits)
Admission and scholarships
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