The Health Informatics Master's Degree program has been designed to efficiently combine generalized training in Health Informatics with a more specialized focus area. The program delivers advanced training in informatics to health care professionals who want to redirect their careers to become health informatics researchers, as well as those who are interested in integrating health informatics expertise in their current professional roles.

The master's degree requirements include a mandatory research project and thesis, with a goal of producing work that may be published in peer-reviewed journals. Possibilities for projects will include research in areas such as disease management and the Internet, decision support, the human-computer interaction and interfaces, the electronic medical record, HIPAA, telemedicine, standardized medical terminology and messaging systems, security of health care systems, and the privacy of patient data.

• 31 units of required coursework 
• 3 units of elective coursework
• 9 units of research (minimum)