Exciting developments are happening within the educational and industrial field of Health. The two youngest medical technological designer programmes of 3TU.School for Technological Design, Stan Ackermans Institute, Clinical Informatics and Healthcare Systems Design, will soon reward a new generation of technological designers with their diploma, a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng).The Health domain awaits yet another talented type of technological designer.
Clinical Informatics (CI)
The Clinical Informatics programme, based at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and specifically geared towards the design of information systems in healthcare, is organising a special event on 20 September 2013. During this diploma award ceremony the programme says goodbye to her second group of graduates who will be granted their diploma. During the event also graduates from other medical programmes will receive their diploma and guest speakers, such as Intervention Radiologist Dr. Danyel van den Heuvel from the St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, are invited to give a lecture about their specialism within the medical field.
âThe clinical informatician can beat this whole process from defining the requirements up to implementing and servicing the installed technological systemâ
âIn October a new group of trainees starts with the programme, which brings the total of the group of Clinical Informatics trainees up to 24 this yearâ, says prof.dr.ir. Ward Cottaar, scientific director of the Clinical Informatics programme. âWe sense a specific demand from the health domain for Clinical Informaticians, designers who can bridge the gap between clinical practice, business processes and information and communication technology. The clinical informatician can beat this whole process from defining the requirements up to implementing and servicing the installed technological system, which makes him of her an allround designerâ.
Healthcare Systems Design
Clinical Informatics is not the only programme sending out graduates to the Health domain end of this year. Also the Healthcare Systems Design programme (track of the Information and Communication Technology programme), located at TU/e as well, says goodbye to her very first PDEng graduates in December. Healthcare Systems Design focuses on Health and Wellbeing technology as well as Electrical Engineering and ICT development for the Health domain. Main goal of the programme is to introduce a new generation of technological designers who have in-depth understanding of the technical aspects as well as of the user requirements in the Health and Wellbeing domain.
âWe are very proud about this first milestoneâ, says dr. Marion Matters, programme coordinator of the Healthcare Systems Design track. âFurthermore, the program is now really getting up to speed as we are expecting 7 new trainees for the next semester, originating from countries such as Italy, Serbia, Peru, China and of course the Netherlands.
âThis strong interaction between the company, the programme and the research groups at TU/e is a new concept of knowledge valorization.â
âThe engineering projects in these programmes offer the cooperating companies a new and innovate approach and make a prototype available at the end of the project. This strong interaction between the company, the programme and the research groups at TU/e is a new concept of knowledge valorization. We are constantly looking for industrial partners active in these areasâ, Matters indicates.