Graduate Study

The Master's degree program seeks to train the next generation of researchers, clinicians and leaders to advance the science of Health Informatics. Successful applicants have backgrounds in health, biology, technology, computer or information science, and are enthused to develop new knowledge, systems and models that can improve health and be translated into practice.

The program of study provides research-oriented applied and theoretical training that spans the use of computer systems and information organization in medicine today, including methods for clinical data acquisition, data modeling, and interoperability, to design and evaluation of representations of clinical and personal data in hospital and consumer environments. The program emphasizes the development and application of new methods that leverage the electronic medical record and advance computer-aided decision support. A capstone or thesis are mandatory degree requirements.

Degree Requirements & Program Coordinator

See Health Informatics.