Health Informatics
The School of Informatics and Computing offers a Master of Science in Health Informatics to address needs arising from the rapidly changing health care environment. Research and educational programs in medical, nursing, and health informatics are growing at a rapid rate nationally. This can be attributed in large part to the increasing complexity and importance of health care reimbursement, which has created a need for improved classification, storage, and analysis of medical information to establish the best clinical practice and cost efficiency.
Users of health informatics include clinicians, researchers, health care educators, health organization administrators, health policy analysts, health information administrators, quality improvement directors, and chief information officers. Those who are professionally involved in health informatics work in a variety of settings, including acute care hospitals, managed care organizations, consulting firms, claims and reimbursement organizations, accounting firms, home health care agencies, long-term care facilities, corrections facilities, pharmaceutical companies, behavioral health organizations, insurance companies, state and federal health care agencies, and health computing industries.
Informatics is uniquely suited to conduct graduate education in health informatics through its health schools, research centers, and affiliated academic units. The School of Medicine has a long history of fellowship training and research in medical informatics. The School of Nursing, which is the largest in the country, is in the forefront in the development of nursing informatics, with a particular emphasis on consumer health informatics. The School of Library and Information Science offers master's and doctoral degrees in information science, which are distinguished by their sociotechnical orientation.
The school also has a broad research thrust exploring the interconnection of social, behavioral, and technological issues associated with the use of information and communication technologies. Faculty in the department is externally funded to conduct research in medical informatics and bioinformatics. Other academic programs in public health, applied health sciences, and hospital administration offer important supporting course work.
Degree RequirementsThe M.S. in Health Informatics is a 36-credit-hour program that integrates knowledge from informatics, healthcare, health information technology and other disciplines to analyze and protect patient data, increase healthcare efficiencies and produce higher quality patient care.
Degree requirements listed on this page apply to students entering the program on or after fall 2012. Requirements for students matriculating prior to fall 2012 can be found here.
Project Track- INFO B501 Introduction to Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO B530 Foundations of Health Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO B535 Clinical Information Systems (3 cr.)
- INFO B581 Health Informatics Standards and Terminology (3 cr.)
- INFO B583 Security and Privacy Policies (3 cr.)
- INFO B642 Clinical Decision Support Systems (3 cr.)
- INFO B505 Informatics Project Management (3 cr.)
- INFO B691 Project in Health Informatics (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
- INFO B501 Introduction to Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO B530 Foundations of Health Informatics (3 cr.)
- INFO B535 Clinical Information Systems (3 cr.)
- INFO B581 Health Informatics Standards and Terminology (3 cr.)
- PBHL B651 Introduction to Biostatistics (3 cr.)
- INFO B642 Clinical Decision Support Systems (3 cr.)
- INFO I575 Informatics Research Design (3 cr.)
- INFO B691 Thesis (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
- Elective (3 cr.)
Note: The semester a course is offered can change. The student is responsible for checking the Registrar for confirmation.
Sample Elective OptionsOther elective courses are possible upon approval of the faculty.
- INFO B551 Independent Study
- INFO B578 Data Administration: Clinical Administration Decision Making (3 cr.)
- INFO B582 Health Information Exchange
- INFO B583 Privacy and Security in Health Care
- INFO B590 Topical
- INFO B601 Introduction to Complex Systems
- INFO B605 Social Foundations of Informatics Yes
- INFO H611 Math & Log Foundations of Informatics No
- INFO B617 Informatics in Life Sciences and Chemistry No
- INFO B641 Business of Health Informatics Yes
- INFO B643 Natural Language Processing No
- LIS S644 Consumer Health Informatics Yes
- INFO H543 Usability and Evaluative Methods in Interactive Design Yes
- INFO H563 Psychology of HCI Yes
- INFO H564 Prototyping for Interactive Systems Yes
- GRAD 610 Topic in Translation and Implementation of Research
- GRAD 660 Clinical Research Methods
- GRAD 661 Clinical Trial
- GRAD G667 Tools and Techniques in Translational Research
- GRAD G668 Quantitative Aspects in Translational Research
- GRAD G672 Translational Research and Entrepreneurship
- PHBL P563 Intro to Applied Stat Methods
Last updated: 02/06/2014