Looking at health data from all the angles

Identifying problems and crafting solutions using biomedical data while never forgetting patients’ needs is what we’re all about.

The Master of Science in Health Informatics degree from the IU School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI integrates health care, health information technology, informatics, and many other fields. Our students learn to analyze and protect patient data, and to improve the quality of medical care and make it more efficient.

Our 36-credit-hour program equips students to examine how patients use their health care information, and to the build the tools that make managing information easier. You’ll complete your health informatics master’s degree with either a thesis or a project, which provides a practical solution to a health information problem.

Far-reaching health informatics careers

You’ll find our graduates creating technologies used on the front lines of medicine, shaping the privacy and security of health information, and helping clinical teams use digital devices and new technologies to serve more patients.

Our graduates work in:

• Hospitals
• Insurance companies
• Government agencies
• Health IT software companies

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the Master of Health Informatics, students attain the following competencies expected of practitioners in the discipline:

Fundamental professional and interdisciplinary skills:

• Analyze problems: Analyze, understand, abstract, and model a specific biomedical problem in terms of their data, information, and knowledge components.
• Produce solutions: Use the analysis to identify and understand the space of possible solutions and generate designs that capture essential aspects of solutions and their components.
• Implement, evaluate, and refine: Carry out the solution (including obtaining necessary resources and managing projects), evaluate it, and iteratively improve it.
• Innovate: Create new theories, typologies, frameworks, representations, methods, and processes to address biomedical informatics problems.
• Work collaboratively: Team effectively with partners within and across disciplines.