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Bachelor's degree course Health Information Management
Fields of activity and career prospects

Graduates holding this degree will find job opportunities anywhere in the health care sector where there is a need to create bridges between medicine, health economics and information technology.

Possible fields of activity are the following:



Medical controlling


Analyses that help to manage the performance in health care centres


Optimisation of delivery processes


Quality management


Preparation of financial negotiations with health insurances


Software requirement analyses


Adaptation and introduction of electronic information systems


IT-project management


Data mining, data warehousing


Evaluation of health services and innovative health care technologies


Counselling for the pharmaceutical, medical products and medical technology industry, for health insurances, hospitals and physician networks

Possible employers for graduates holding this degree are



Hospitals and medical care centres


Health, accident, and pension insurances


Health care authorities and organisations


Consulting agencies specialising in health care


Health research institutes


The medical software industry

The health care sector is considered as a branch of the future, especially due to the demographic development. The re-structuring of the health care sector, the introduction of new payment systems, the optimisation of supply processes and the realisation of innovative health technologies create interesting functions and jobs in the interdisciplinary area of medicine, business administration, health care management, and information technology with very good career prospects.


Hochschule Ulm
Faculty Computer Science
Prittwitzstraße 10
89075 Ulm
Fax: +49 (0731) 50-28237
Fax: +49 (0731) 50-28480
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