Medical Informatics and Laboratory Management aims to introduce you to a number of the management aspects of laboratory medicine. These include change management, laboratory information systems, economics of the healthcare system and pathology services, automation, point of care testing, quality systems, accreditation of laboratory services and legal issues affecting the practice of medical scientists in laboratory medicine. The medical informatics component of the course includes principles and practice of digitising and manipulating information. In particular for the purposes of image analysis and interpretation. The course examines the use of information systems in the laboratory and how knowledge/expert/middleware systems can assist in decision-making processes. The role of interconnected networks in healthcare management is also covered.