MS in Health Informatics

The Health Informatics Masters Degree program provides a comprehensive curriculum to prepare students for careers in research, teaching, and information management in the healthcare computing industry, within healthcare organizations, and academia. The program offers advanced training in biomedical and health informatics aligned with the local and national community's current skills, environments, and health needs for students to develop as independent and applied professionals for broad future careers.

The Masters's degree requirements include a core intensive curriculum and a mandatory research project and thesis to produce work published in peer-reviewed journals. Possibilities for project foci include research in areas such as digital and consumer health, clinical decision support and data sciences in health, systems architecture in clinical health IT, patient privacy and security, and data standardization, sharing, and connectivity.