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Twin Cities Campus
Health Informatics M.H.I.Health Informatics, AHC Inst
Graduate School
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Institute for Health Informatics, MMC 912 Mayo, 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-626-3348; fax: 612-626-7227)
Email:
ihi@umn.edu
Website: http://www.bmhi.umn.edu
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the
General Information section of
this
website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
Health informatics is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that applies computer, information, and cognitive sciences to promote the effective and efficient use and analysis of information, ultimately improving the health, well-being, and economic functioning of society. Students take a sequence of core courses in health informatics and biostatistics, and electives in technical and health science areas. Possible areas of emphasis include health information systems, telehealth, bioinformatics, user interface design, system impact evaluation, database construction and analysis, clinical decision-making, evaluation of health programs, and physiological monitoring and control.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program
is 3.00.
Applicants are expected to have at least a bachelor of science or equivalent degree from a recognized institution of higher education.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Applicants are required to have taken 6 semester credits or 9 quarter credits in medical, life, or biological sciences from a recognized institution of higher learning. This a broadly defined requirement and most courses with a health or biology emphasis will be accepted including biostatistics, health services research, and public health, as well as the more traditional biology or life science courses.
Applicants are required to have taken a course or to have documented work experience in a programming or application language such as C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, PASCAL, etc.
Applicants must submit their test score(s) from the following:
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
The preferred English language test is Test of English as Foreign Language.
Key to test
abbreviations
(GRE, GMAT, MCAT, TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
Plan C: Plan C requires
18
major credits and
6
credits outside the
major.
There is no final exam.
A capstone project is required.
Capstone Project: The capstone project is a 3-credit course in which students will have a final opportunity to apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills to a project involving a practical problem in health informatics. Students will learn how to design these projects properly, reviewing past exemplary projects as guides. Then, with the help of their advisers and the capstone course director, students will design and carry out their own projects which can take a variety of forms, including: developing design and evaluation specifications for software to address a specific healthcare need; working on, observing, analyzing, and reporting the actions of a team involved in implementing a new information system; or observing and measuring the impact of such a system in a healthcare setting. Students will submit a written project report in lieu of a final examination. The capstone project instructor and the student's adviser grade the report.
This program may be completed with a minor.
Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.
A minimum GPA of 3.00
is required for students to remain in good standing.
At least 1 semesters must be completed
before filing a Degree Program Form.
The master of health informatics (M.H.I.) is a degree intended for working professionals and others who would like training in understanding, implementing, and evaluating the many information technologies becoming more prevalent in the health care industry. This degree is designed so that it can be completed in as little as one calendar year, but may also be taken part-time over several years to accommodate work schedules.
The curriculum consists of 30 credits of coursework that includes:
6 credits of introductory health informatics, 2 credits of seminar, 3 credits of health care and clinical informatics courses, 2 credits of interprofessional health informatics, 5 credits of database and software management courses, 3 credits of statistics, 6 credits of coursework in the student's chosen area of specialization, and a 3-credit capstone course, in which students complete a project directly applicable to their own work environment. The program is designed to accommodate working professionals and can be completed in one calendar year by a full-time student and in up to three years on a part-time basis.
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