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M.Sc. in Medical Information Management
In the recent years in this age of Internet and information technology, we have more information at our fingertips than ever before. Organizing this entire data and combating information overload is becoming more and more important. It is thus necessary for institutes like university to evolve a system, which is most accurate and more student friendly. Keeping this view in mind we have decided to start a master programme in Medical Information Management in collaboration with Hochschule Hannover – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany.
After completion of this two year M.Sc. course students can be accommodated in any national/multinational drug designing pharmaceutical company, academia as well as in Clinical Research Organizations (CROs). Advances in biosciences, clinical medicine and medical technologies have enabled increasing personalized health care. The digitization of healthcare information facilitates new connections, insights and transparency. These developments will include medical information management in educational course format in the coming years and decades. Demographic change is leading to an increasing number of chronically ill and multimorbid patients. This would lead to an increasing need for information management.
The years of delays in the introduction a nationwide telematics infrastructure and an electronic health card, as well as the delays in establishing a cross‐sectoral quality assurance of health care show problem areas of modern medical information management. The advances in various interdisciplinary areas of bioscience, clinical medicine and medical technology indicate an increasing need for clinical trials to progress and to make patients accessible. The value of clinical trials is not just to contribute to the development of new therapies but to take proper care of patients. For many participants it means a new drug/option they will be treated with as part of a study.
Clinical research includes planning, implementation, evaluation and publication of clinical trials. In this context, special knowledge is necessary about legal requirements at national and international level as well as all other related issues such as collaboration with institutions of higher education, centers of excellence and authorities, aspects of security of subjects / patients in clinical trials, patient information, insurance and ethical issues. For reimbursement of medicinal products, pharmaco economic data are required, that collection and analysis needs special training.
Relevant aspects of benefit for patients such as adequate surrogate parameters and quality of life data require specific recording tools as well as rating benefits that are becoming increasingly important for clinical research and require specialized trained staff. Medical Information Management course would be useful to train our students in rapidly developing and emerging areas of biosciences, clinical medicine, health sciences, health policy, IPR related activities, drug discovery and designing. These experts are continuously required in various clinical and pharmaceutical industries.
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