M.S., Health Informatics: (36 Credits)

The Master of Science degree in Health Informatics program is designed to offer students a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical understanding of informatics and analytics within the healthcare context. Health informatics is an interdisciplinary field that analyzes biomedical data for improved decision making in healthcare. Health informatics brings together the fields of computer science and data analytics to study the processes for the generation, storage, retrieval, use, and management of health data. The program highlights the social and ethical as well as the technological dimensions of this rapidly evolving professional field. The program will be of interest to students intending to pursue careers at the intersection of healthcare and technology, it will also appeal to any graduate student interested in examining larger questions about healthcare analytics from an interdisciplinary perspective, including the role of data to understand social and cultural dimensions of health care.

Degree Requirements:

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Semester 1
HIF 601	Introduction to Health Informatics	3
HIF 603	Fundamentals of Statistics and Statistical Reasoning	3
HIF 605	Programming for Health Informatics	3
Semester 2
HIF 635 Data Governance		3
HIF 640 Data Management		3
HIF 655 Machine Learning in Health		3
Semester 3
HIF 710 Systems Analysis and Design		3
Semester 4
HIF 785 Leadership in the Health Professions		3
HIF XXX Artificial Intelligence in Health Informatics		3
HIF XXX Capstone		3
Elective - choose two *		6
MPH 601	Organization and Management of Public Health Services
MPH 605	Epidemiology
MPH 608	Health Communication and Informatics
MPH 633	Health Economics and Finance
MPH 707	Introduction to Mixed Methods
MSL 626	Failing and Failure in Leadership
Total Credits		36

*	Approved electives will include content related to Social and Behavioral aspects of Health, Health Economics and Marketing, Research Design, Ethics, and Change Management.