GSISH believes that due to substantial changes within medicine and the whole health care domain, a key role has emerged for informatics in health, in health technology and in related fields. To face these challenges, multidisciplinary collaboration between informatics, medicine, and many other fields has become essential. We foster this multidisciplinary by establishing an institutionalized framework which

• transfers our broad scientific and industrial knowledge
• translates research results into the practice of health care
• creates 'osmosis' between science and industry

By offering a top-level PhD education building up on MD / M.Sc. based on tailor-made research, the GSISH vision is to educate a new breed of scientists, who

• start early on with joint research and training
• live true multidisciplinarity
• understand other ways of thinking
• bridge cultural gaps and build common ground