The Health Informatics Masters Degree program has been designed to efficiently provide training in Health Informatics. The program delivers advanced training in informatics to professionals who want to redirect their careers to become a health informaticist, as well as those who are interested in integrating health informatics expertise in their current professional roles.

The masters 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.

Degree Requirements:

Total of 43 units of credit are required for the Masters Degree:

• 15 units of required core courses
• 19 units of approved elective courses
• 9 units (minimum) of MHI 299 "Research in Health Informatics"

Required core courses:

MHI 210         4 units Introduction to Health Informatics

MHI 202         4 units Computer Based Patient Records

MHI 209         4 units Clinical Data Acquisition and Analysis

MHI 290         1 unit   Fall Seminar in Health Informatics

MHI 290         1 unit   Winter Seminar in Health Informatics

MHI 290         1 unit   Spring Seminar in Health Informatics

• 9 units of research (minimum)

MHI 299          1 unit   Research in Health Informatics

Elective Courses:

19 units minimum required, of which a minimum of 12 units must be selected from the following courses:

 MHI 289A   1-5 units Special Topics: Advanced Clinical Data Acquisition
 MHI 289f     4 units   Database and Knowledge Management
 MHI 211      4 units   Telemedicine
 MHI 212      4 units  Computer Security in Health Informatics
 MHI 208     4 units   Health Informatics in Web-based Enterprise
 MHI 207     4 units   Medical Decision Support
 MHI 289h   4 units   Virtual Reality, Simulation, & Robotics
 EPI 223      4 units    Spatial Epidemiology
 EPI X 425   3 units    Introduction to Public Health
 EPI 205A    3 units    Principles of Epidemiology
 SPH 273     3 units    Health Systems and Administration
 SPH 262     3 units    Principles of Environmental Health

*7 units of other elective units may be taken from this group of courses or from the list of additional electives included within the Health Informatics Student Handbook (PDF).