Master of Science in Health Informatics

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.

Health and health care systems skills:

• Understand the fundamentals of the field in the context of the effective use of biomedical data, information, and knowledge.
• For substantive problems related to scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create solutions based on biomedical informatics approaches.
• Apply, analyze, evaluate, and relate biomedical information, concepts, and models spanning molecules to individuals to populations.
• Analyze and evaluate complex biomedical informatics problems in terms of data, information, and knowledge.

Technological skills:

• Apply, analyze, and create data structures, algorithms, programming, mathematics, statistics.
• Apply, analyze, and create technological approaches in the context of biomedical problems.
• Apply and evaluate methods of inquiry and criteria for selecting and using algorithms, techniques, and methods to solve substantive health informatics problems.