Health Informatics
The Master of Science in Health Informatics degree integrates health care, health information technology, informatics, and many other fields. Our students learn to analyze and protect patient data, and to improve the quality of medical care and make it more efficient.
Our 36-credit-hour program equips students to examine how patients use their health care information, and to the build the tools that make it easier to manage unstructured data and extract useful information. By learning how to appropriately utilize natural language processing and other tools, our graduates can improve clinical decision support, electronic health records management, and patient privacy.
You’ll complete your health informatics master’s degree with either a thesis or a project, which provides a practical solution to a health information problem.
Degree Requirements
The master’s degree is 36 credit hours. It includes a health informatics core of seven courses, a professional or thesis track of three courses, and two electives.
Select electives that reflect your particular focus, whether it’s data science, programming languages, or health information security. The right classes can help you acquire skills to develop home health software, or to specialize in clinical research informatics or become proficient in implementing health care information systems.
Health Informatics Core
- INFO-I 501 Introduction to Informatics
- INFO-B 505 Informatics Project Management
- INFO-B 518 Applied Statistical Methods for Biomedical Informatics
- INFO-B 530 Foundations of Health Informatics or DENT-R 978 Introduction to Health Information Technology in Dentistry
- INFO-B 535 Clinical Information Systems (prerequisite: INFO-B 530)
- INFO-B 581 Health Informatics Standards and Terminologies (prerequisite: INFO-B 530)
- INFO-B 642 Clinical Decision Support Systems (prerequisites: INFO-I 501 and INFO-B 535)
Professional Track
- INFO-B 583 Security and Privacy Policies and Regulations for Health Care (prerequisites: INFO-I 501 and INFO-B 530)
- INFO-B 626 Human Factors Engineering for Health Informatics (prerequisites: INFO-I 501 and INFO-B 535)
- INFO-B 584 Practicum in Health Information Technology or INFO-B 691 Thesis/Project in Health Informatics
Thesis Track
- INFO-B 585 Biomedical Analytics
- LIS-S 506 Introduction to Research or INFO-I 575 Informatics Research Design
- INFO-B 691 Thesis/Project in Health Informatics
Approved Electives
- DENT-R 957 Introduction to Research in Oral Biology
- INFO-B 512 Scientific and Clinical Data Management (Health Informatics)
- INFO-B 513 The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Electronic Health Record Systems (Corequisite: INFO-B 642) (spring)
- INFO-B 529 Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- INFO-B 536 Computational Methods for Biomedical Informatics
- INFO-B 551 Independent Study (including summer)
- INFO-B 573 Programming for Science Informatics
- INFO-B 582 Health Information Exchange (fall)
- INFO-B 584 Practicum in Health Information Technology (including summer)
- INFO-B 585 Biomedical Analytics (fall)
- INFO-B 605 Social Foundations of Informatics (summer)
- INFO-B 626 Human Factors Engineering for Health Informatics (prerequisites: INFO-I 501 and INFO-B 535)
- INFO-B 641 Business of Health Informatics
- INFO-B 643 Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Records and Reports (spring)
- INFO-B 644 Consumer Health Informatics (spring)
- INFO-H 516 Cloud Computing for Data Science
- INFO-H 541 Interaction Design Practice (HCI)
- INFO-H 543 Interaction Design Methods (HCI)
- INFO-I 595 Internship
Other elective courses are possible upon approval of the program director. Some elective courses may have prerequisites. Students should check with the instructor before enrolling.
Last updated: 3/2024
