With about 5 million employees, and an annual turnover that exceeds the automobile industry’s turnover, the public health care sector is a branch of the future that offers great growth and employment opportunities. In a society with a population that continues to grow older, and an increase in chronically ill citizens, the health care system provides innovative methods for prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and care assistance. Under the pressure of growing health care costs new forms of financing and payment, and an integrated structure of health care delivery have been developed with the help of health telematics (electronic health card, telemonitoring, tele-home care). For all these innovations information technology has become an essential part of the supply chain, and information management an essential prerequisite for planning and controlling the care delivery processes.

All this explains an increasing demand in skilled workers, who in addition to competencies in medicine, economics and health care management, also possess a deep understanding of data analysis and information technology. The Bachelor’s degree course ‘Health Information Management’ that has been introduced with the beginning of the winter semester 2009/10, conveys these competencies in an interdisciplinary way. Occupational fields for graduates can be found anywhere in the health care sector where there is a need to build bridges between management and information technology. This degree still is unique in Germany.

If your grades are satisfactory, this degree will qualify you for a Master’s degree, e.g. in the area of health management, health sciences, public health or medical process management.

Duration of study: 7 semesters incl. practical semester

Degree: Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.)

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