The Health Informatics (HI) core curriculum integrates fundamental informatics and management concepts applied to the health care environment.
Prerequisite Courses
College Algebra; Statistics
Research Project
All health informatics students are required to complete an independent research project, which they will present to a faculty committee prior to graduation.
Internship
Students may elect to participate in a 3 credit summer internship between the first and second years in the program. An internship is strongly recommended, but not required. Students will enroll in HMI 8689 Field Experience while completing the summer internship.
Required Courses | ||
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| Review the Course Descriptions. | ||
| BBME 7410 | Introduction to the US Health Care System for Biomedical Informatics | 3 |
| BBME 7430 | Introduction to Health Informatics | 3 |
| BBME 7440 | Health Information Technology | 3 |
| BBME 8443 | Enterprise Information and Solutions Architecture for Strategic Healthcare Operations | 3 |
| BBME 8571 | Decision Support in Health Care Systems for Biomedical Informatics | 3 |
| BBME 8550 | Health Data Analytics | 3 |
| BBME 8560 | Data Design and Analysis I | 3 |
| BBME 8610 | Consumer Health Informatics | 3 |
| BBME 8870 | Knowledge Representation in Biology and Medicine | 3 |
| BBME 8090 | Thesis Research in Informatics | 4 |
| Elective Courses (choose 3) | ||
| BBME 8435 | Information Security, Evaluation and Policy | 3 |
| BBME 8437 | Data Warehousing and Data/Text Mining for Health Care | 3 |
| BBME 8441 | Biomedical and Health Vocabularies and Ontologies | 3 |
| BBME 8510 | Research Synthesis for Clinical Decision-Making: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | 3 |
| BBME 8910 | AI in Healthcare: From Design to Deployment and Oversight | 3 |
Example MSHI Plan of Study (40 Credits) |
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First Fall SemesterBBME 7410 (3 credits) – Introduction to the US Health Care System for Biomedical Informatics |
First Spring SemesterBBME 8441 (3 credits) - Biomedical and Health Vocabularies and Ontologies |
Second Fall SemesterBBME 8437 (3 credits) – Data Warehousing and Data/Text Mining for Health Care |
Second Spring SemesterBBME 8870 (3 credits) – Knowledge Representation in Biology and Medicine |
