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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.

Example MSHI Plan of Study (40 Credits)

First Fall Semester

BBME 7410 (3 credits) – Introduction to the US Health Care System for Biomedical Informatics
BBME 7430 (3 credits) - Introduction to Health Informatics
BBME 7440 (3 credits) – Health Information Technology
BBME 8090 (1 credit) - Thesis Research in Informatics
 

First Spring Semester

BBME 8441 (3 credits) - Biomedical and Health Vocabularies and Ontologies
BBME 8550 (3 credits) – Health Data Analytics
BBME 8560 (3 credits) – Data Design & Analysis I
BBME 8090 (1 credit) - Thesis Research in Informatics

Second Fall Semester

BBME 8437 (3 credits) – Data Warehousing and Data/Text Mining for Health Care
BBME 8571 (3 credits) - Decision Support in Health Care Systems for Biomedical Informatics
BBME 8443 (3 credits) – Enterprise Information and Solutions Architecture for Strategic HealthCare Operations
BBME 8090 (1 credit) - Thesis Research in Informatics

Second Spring Semester

BBME 8870 (3 credits) – Knowledge Representation in Biology and Medicine
BBME 8610 (3 credits) - Consumer Health Informatics
BBME 8435 (3 credits) - Information Security, Evaluation and Policy
8090 (1 credit) - Thesis Research in Informatics