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.
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 B626 Human Factors Engineering for Health Informatics
- 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.) with faculty approval
- Elective (3 cr.) with faculty approval
- Elective (3 cr.) with faculty approval
- 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 B551 Introduction to Biostatistics (3 cr.) or
- INFO-B518 Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
- INFO B642 Clinical Decision Support Systems (3 cr.)
- INFO B627 Advance Seminar 1/Bioinformatics or INFO B667 Seminar in Interprofessional Collaboration or INFO I575 Informatics Research Design (3 cr.)
- INFO B691 Thesis (3 cr.)
- INFO B585 Biomedical Analytics
- Elective (3 cr.) with faculty approval
- Elective (3 cr.) with faculty approval
- Elective (3 cr.) with faculty approval
Note: The semester a course is offered can change. The student is responsible for checking the Registrar for confirmation.
Last updated: 04/23/2018
