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The executive health informatics program requires the completion of 33 credit hours consisting of ten core courses and an individual research project (three credit hours).

Prerequisites

Participants must meet one prerequisite, Statistical Analysis.

Oral Comprehensives

All health informatics students are required to complete, successfully, an oral examination that enables the faculty to evaluate the student's competency in health informatics. The evaluation takes place during the student's final semester.

Example Plan of Study

First Spring Semester (program begins in January)

BBME 8550 - Health Data Analytics
BBME 8571 - Decision Support in Health Care Systems

First Summer Semester

BBME 8560 - Data, Design, and Analysis
BBME 7580 - Project Management

First Fall Semester

BBME 7410 - Introduction to the US Health Care System
BBME 7430 - Introduction to Health Informatics

Second Spring Semester

BBME 8441 - Biomedical and Health Vocabularies and Ontologies
BBME 8435 - Information Security, Evaluation and Policy
BBME 8090 – Thesis Research in Informatics

Second Summer Semester

BBME 8090 - Thesis Research in Informatics

Second Fall Semester

BBME 8437 - Data Warehousing and Data/Text Mining for Health Care
BBME 8443 - Enterprise Information and Solutions Architecture for Strategic Healthcare Operations
BBME 8090 – Thesis Research in Informatics