The e-Health consultant is an expert professional in the design, management and implementation of e-Health projects. These are projects that apply ICT to medicine, for example, shared clinical history, personal health folder, electronic prescriptions, image scanning, telemedicine and telecare.

This professional works generally in technology consulting for health providing services to public and private healthcare organizations (hospitals, primary care centers, health administrations of different levels -national, regional, local-, clinics, etc.). This professional can also work in public or private health centers performing management functions and control of the implementation of e-Health projects.

Regulated training and graduates

• Grau: Enginyeria de sistemes de telecomunicació
• Grau: Enginyeria de sistemes i serveis de telecomunicacions
• Grau: Enginyeria informàtica
• Grau: Enginyeria telemàtica
• Grau: Enginyeria de xarxes de telecomunicació
• Grau: Enginyeria electrònica de telecomunicació
• Grau: Enginyeria informàtica de gestió i sistemes d'informació
• Grau: Informàtica i serveis
• Grau: Tecnologies de telecomunicació
• Grau: Bioinformàtica
• Grau: Biotecnologia
• Grau: Ciències biomèdiques
• Grau: Medicina
• Grau: Infermeria
• Grau: Administració d'empreses i gestió de la innovació
• Grau: Direcció d'empreses tecnològiques
• Grau: Empresa i tecnologia

Complementary training

• If it comes from technical engineering, it is required to perform management courses or seminars on health and basic health services, courses on implementation strategies and evaluation of telemedicine and telecare in clinical practice, or postgraduates in telecare and telemedicine.

• If it comes from the field of health sciences, it is necessary to conduct courses in information management and clinical knowledge in e-Health.
  

Other specific skills

Learning and use of knowledge: Level 2

Planning and organisation: Level 3

Conceptual thought: Level 3

Customer orientation: Level 2

Flexibility and change management: Level 2

Analytical thought: Level 3

New technologies

People who show an interest in this field are motivated by the development and advanced use of new technologies in any of their applications (software, hardware, telecommunications) from an innovative perspective and in accordance with the continuous updates of technologies, programmes and equipment that appear on the market. The design, installation, management and maintenance of computer systems and new technologies are activities specific to this field.

Management

The organisation, administration and control of a company or entity are the main interests of people related to the management field. Activities included in this field of interest vary from effective resource management, feasibility analyses and solving business problems to the development of skills and fostering of motivation in relation to human resources. Knowledge regarding specific techniques of strategic administration and business management are required to carry out these activities.

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• Work hours

  The regular schedule is 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday, morning and afternoon sessions. It is demanded flexibility to accommodate the workload, to delivery of projects and to customer needs.

• Salary

  The salary is calculated according to the experience and professional category (junior or senior). Thus, the annual gross salary is in a range that goes from € 21,000, in the case of junior consultant, € 50,000 gross per year, in the case of the senior..

• Professional category

  Technician