MSc programme in collaboration with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, where all lessons are held.
The information provided about the programme refers to the academic year 2024/25 and may be subject to change in the academic year 2025/26.
Eligibility
A degree in one of these fields:
- Biotechnology
- Information Engineering
- Biological Sciences
- Information Sciences and Technologies
- Medicine and Surgery
It is also mandatory to pass an entry test.
More information about the test and the required background are available here.
Mission and goals
The two-year program in Health Informatics, taught in English, aims to develop the most advanced informatics skills applied to the field of medicine, preparing highly sought-after professionals for today's and tomorrow's job market.
Today, more than ever, it is necessary to train experts with high-level technical skills in informatics who also understand the workings, processes, and issues of healthcare.
Health Informatics is designed to train tomorrow's professionals through a targeted, integrated, multidisciplinary, theoretical-practical program where the blend of different worlds becomes a fundamental value for gaining a competitive edge in the job market.
These will be the leaders of the revolution in the national and international healthcare world, which will see an increasingly digitized and equitable healthcare context, with a patient-centered, personalized, effective, efficient, sustainable, and safe diagnostic-therapeutic approach.
The Health Informatics programme is designed to meet the demand for talents capable of operating in this complex and growing scenario, in industrial, academic, scientific, or public governance sectors, mastering the most advanced informatics knowledge in service of the healthcare system.
The programme was designed with input from many professionals from various fields, such as computer scientists, engineers, doctors, biologists, researchers, statisticians, mathematicians, economists, physicists, lawyers, and epidemiologists, but especially by listening to the needs of the job market through interviews and consultations with major international companies operating in the field of healthcare digitalization and advanced medical technologies, as well as the most advanced research centers and key regulatory and administrative entities in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biomedical research fields.
Career opportunities
Graduates of the Master's Degree in Health Informatics can find employment as Health Informatics consultants, Project Managers, Data analysts, IT analysts, Information Security Officers, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers, Chief Health Information Officers, Electronic Medical Record Keepers, Chief Information Officers, and Informatics Managers in numerous contexts such as:
- Hospitals, research organizations, or public and private healthcare companies, in clinical or translational research, administrative, operational, and healthcare management;
- Universities, companies, and industries, in multidisciplinary teams engaged in developing IT and AI tools for the healthcare sector;
- Entrepreneurial sectors where the implementation, management, and analysis of healthcare big data or omics data are fundamental for the development and production of innovative IT tools at the service of care and wellbeing of the society;
- Public entities or health and social security insurance companies;
- Consultancy firms;
- Healthcare IT companies.
Graduates in Health Informatics can also continue their academic journey, even abroad, towards an even higher level of university preparation by accessing PhDs and second-level university master's programs.
Application website
Health Informatics - how to apply