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Twin Cities Campus

Health Informatics Minor

Health Informatics, AHC Inst
Graduate School
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Physical Address: 8-100 PWB, 516 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Mailing Address: MMC 912, 420 Delaware St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: ihi@umn.edu
Website: http://healthinformatics.umn.edu
  • Program Type: Graduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2022
  • Length of program in credits (master's): 6
  • Length of program in credits (doctoral): 12
  • This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.
Health informatics (also known as biomedical informatics) is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that applies computer, information, statistical, management, and related scientific methods to enable biomedical discovery and support the effective and efficient use and analysis of data, management of information, and application of knowledge across the spectrum from basic science to clinical care. The ultimate goal of the field is to improve the health, well-being, and economic functioning of society. The minor provides an opportunity for students to supplement their primary training with additional knowledge and skills in health informatics.
Program Delivery
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
  • primarily online (at least 80% of the instruction for the program is online with short, intensive periods of face-to-face coursework)
  • partially online (between 50% to 80% of instruction is online)
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program is 3.00.
Required prerequisites
Health or Biological Sciences
Applicants must have taken 6 semester-credits or 9 quarter-credits at the undergraduate or graduate level in medical, life, or biological sciences from a regionally accredited institution of higher learning or equivalent. This broadly defined requirement includes most courses with a health or biology emphasis, including biostatistics, health services research, and public health, as well as more traditional biology or life science courses.
Programming language
Documented work or educational experience working with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, Python, R, Visual Basic, etc.
or HINF 5502 - Python Programming Essentials for the Health Sciences (1.0 cr)
or Department Consent
Special Application Requirements:
Applicants must be earning a graduate-level degree from the University of Minnesota.
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
Required Coursework
All students pursuing the Health Informatics minor must complete the following course:
HINF 5430 - Foundations of Health Informatics I (3.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Masters
Required Course
Take the following course to complete the 6-credit minimum for the master's minor:
HINF 5431 - Foundations of Health Informatics II (3.0 cr)
Doctoral
Required courses
HINF 5440 - Foundations of Translational Bioinformatics (3.0 cr)
Foundations Lab
Students must take at least one lab concurrently with the associated course (i.e. take 8430 concurrently with 5430 or 8440 concurrently with 5440).
Take 1 - 2 course(s) from the following:
· HINF 8430 - Foundations of Health Informatics I Lab (2.0 cr)
· HINF 8440 - Foundations of Translational Bioinformatics Lab (2.0 cr)
Electives
Take HINF electives to meet the 12-credit minimum for the doctoral minor.
HINF 5431 - Foundations of Health Informatics II (3.0 cr)
HINF 5436 - AHC Informatics Grand Rounds (1.0 cr)
HINF 5450 - Foundations of Precision Medicine Informatics (3.0 cr)
HINF 5494 - Topics in Health Informatics (1.0-3.0 cr)
HINF 5510 - Applied Health Care Databases: Database Principles and Data Evaluation (3.0 cr)
HINF 5520 - Informatics Methods for Health Care Quality, Outcomes, and Patient Safety (2.0 cr)
HINF 5531 - Health Data Analytics and Data Science (3.0 cr)
HINF 5610 - Foundations of Biomedical Natural Language Processing (3.0 cr)
HINF 5620 - Data Visualization for the Health Sciences (3.0 cr)
HINF 5630 - Clinical Data Mining (3.0 cr)
HINF 5640 - Advanced Translational Bioinformatics Methods (3.0 cr)
HINF 5650 - Integrative Genomics and Computational Methods (3.0 cr)
HINF 8220 - Computational Causal Analytics (3.0 cr)
HINF 8405 - Advanced Topics in Health Informatics I (1.0-4.0 cr)
HINF 8406 - Advanced Topics in Health Informatics II (1.0-4.0 cr)
HINF 8492 - Advanced Readings or Research in Health Informatics (1.0-6.0 cr)
 
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HINF 5502 - Python Programming Essentials for the Health Sciences
Credits: 1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis: S-N or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Computer programming essentials for health sciences/health care applications using Python 3. Intended for students with limited programming background, or students wishing to obtain proficiency in Python programming language. prereq: Junior or senior or grad student or professional student or instr consent
HINF 5430 - Foundations of Health Informatics I
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
An introductory survey of health informatics, focusing on foundational concepts. Topics covered include: conceptualizations of data, information, and knowledge; current terminologies, coding, and classification systems for medical information; ethics, privacy, and security; systems analysis, process and data modeling; human-computer interaction and data visualization. Lectures, readings, and exercises highlight the intersections of these topics with electronic health record systems and other health information technology. prereq: Junior, senior, grad student, professional student, or instr consent
HINF 5431 - Foundations of Health Informatics II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
An introductory survey of health informatics, focusing on applications of informatics concepts and technologies. Topics covered include: health informatics research, literature, and evaluation; precision medicine; decision models; computerized decision support systems; data mining, natural language processing, social media, rule-based system, and other emerging technologies for supporting 'Big Data' applications; security for health care information handling. Lectures, readings, and exercises highlight the intersections of these topics with current information technology for clinical care and research. prereq: Junior, senior, grad student, professional student, or instr consent
HINF 5440 - Foundations of Translational Bioinformatics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Translational bioinformatics deals with the assaying, computational analysis and knowledge-based interpretation of complex molecular data to better understand, prevent, diagnose and treat disease. This course emphasizes deep DNA sequencing methods that have persistent impact on research related to disease diagnosis and treatment. The course covers sequence analysis, applications to genome sequences, and sequence-function analysis, analysis of modern genomic data, sequence analysis for gene expression/functional genomics analysis, and gene mapping/applied population genetics. Prerequisites: MS, PhD, or MD/PhD student interested in translational bioinformatics
HINF 8430 - Foundations of Health Informatics I Lab
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
The PhD-level lab complement for introductory survey of health informatics, focusing on foundational concepts. Topics covered include: conceptualizations of data, information, and knowledge; current terminologies, coding, and classification systems for medical information; ethics, privacy, and security; systems analysis, process and data modeling; human-computer interaction and data visualization. Lectures, readings, and exercises highlight the intersections of these topics with electronic health record systems and other health information technology.
HINF 8440 - Foundations of Translational Bioinformatics Lab
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Translational bioinformatics deals with the assaying, computational analysis and knowledge-based interpretation of complex molecular data to better understand, prevent, diagnose and treat disease. This course emphasizes deep DNA sequencing methods that have persistent impact on research related to disease diagnosis and treatment. The course covers sequence analysis, applications to genome sequences, and sequence-function analysis, analysis of modern genomic data, sequence analysis for gene expression/functional genomics analysis, and gene mapping/applied population genetics. Prerequisites: MS, PhD, or MD/PhD student interested in translational bioinformatics
HINF 5431 - Foundations of Health Informatics II
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
An introductory survey of health informatics, focusing on applications of informatics concepts and technologies. Topics covered include: health informatics research, literature, and evaluation; precision medicine; decision models; computerized decision support systems; data mining, natural language processing, social media, rule-based system, and other emerging technologies for supporting 'Big Data' applications; security for health care information handling. Lectures, readings, and exercises highlight the intersections of these topics with current information technology for clinical care and research. prereq: Junior, senior, grad student, professional student, or instr consent
HINF 5436 - AHC Informatics Grand Rounds
Credits: 1.0 [max 10.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Presentation/discussion of research problems, current literature/topics of interest in Health Informatics.
HINF 5450 - Foundations of Precision Medicine Informatics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
The course will provide an introduction into the fundamental concepts of Precision Medicine with a focus on informatics-focused applications for clinical data representation, acquisition, decision making and outcomes evaluation. The student will gain an appreciation of fundamental biomedical data representation and its application to genomic, clinical, and population problems.
HINF 5494 - Topics in Health Informatics
Credits: 1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall & Spring
Topics in health informatics. prereq: Professional student or grad student or instr consent
HINF 5510 - Applied Health Care Databases: Database Principles and Data Evaluation
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Principles of database theory, modeling, design, and manipulation of databases will be introduced, taught with a healthcare applications emphasis. Students will gain experience using a relational database management system (RDBMS), and database manipulation will be explored using Structured Query Language (SQL) to compose and execute queries. Students will be able to critically evaluate database query methods and results, and understand their implications for health care. prereq: Junior or senior or grad student or professional student or instr consent
HINF 5520 - Informatics Methods for Health Care Quality, Outcomes, and Patient Safety
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Application/operation of clinical information systems, electronic health records, decision support/application in health care system. Use of clinical information systems/association with health care delivery, payment, quality, outcomes. prereq: Junior or senior or grad student or professional student or instr consent
HINF 5531 - Health Data Analytics and Data Science
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Data science methods and techniques for the extraction, preparation, and use of health data in decision making. prereq: Junior or senior or professional student or grad student or instr consent
HINF 5610 - Foundations of Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
The course will provide a systematic introduction to basic knowledge and methods used in natural language processing (NLP) research. It will introduce biomedical NLP tasks and methods as well as their resources and applications in the biomedical domain. The course will also provide hands-on experience with existing NLP tools and systems. Students will gain basic knowledge and skills in handling with main biomedical NLP tasks. Prerequisites graduate student or instructor consent; Experience with at least one programming language (Python or Perl preferred) Recommended: basic understanding of data mining concepts, basic knowledge of computational linguistics
HINF 5620 - Data Visualization for the Health Sciences
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
An advanced health informatics course, focusing on theoretical and practical aspects of data and information visualization for health care and the health sciences. Topics include classic and novel visualization types; models of human visual perception and cognition; color, text and typography; maps and diagrams; evaluation and testing; and the aesthetic and cultural aspects of visualization. Examples emphasize health sciences applications for clinicians, patients, researchers, and analysts. Modern programming and commercial tools are discussed, including D3, ggplot2, and Tableau. Students will report on and discuss visualization methods, published studies and books, culminating in a final visualization project of the student's choosing.
HINF 5630 - Clinical Data Mining
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
This is a hands-on introductory data mining course specifically focusing on health care applications. Analogously to the relationship between biostatistics and statistics, the data and computational challenges, the experiment design and the model performance requirements towards data mining in the clinical domain differ from those in general applications. This course aims to teach the students the most common data mining techniques and elaborate on the differences between general and clinical data mining. Specifically, the course will focus on (i) clinical data challenges and preprocessing; (ii) survey of the most common techniques in the clinical domain; (iii) clinical application touching up on experimental design and collaborations with physicians. The class will meet twice a week, one day dedicated to lectures and one day to a hands-on lab component, where students are expected to apply the techniques to health-related data. Some of the models will be evaluated with the involvement of a physician collaborator. Prerequisites: Basic linear algebra (matrix notation), basic optimization (gradient descent) Graduate level introductory statistics (e.g. STAT 5101-5102) or equivalent or instructor consent
HINF 5640 - Advanced Translational Bioinformatics Methods
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
This course is designed to introduce the high throughput platforms to students who are interested in the genomics research and genomics data analysis in the basic and clinical medical science field. The course covers history of the genomics platforms, its revolution and the specifics of the data generated by all existing different platforms. The course will also introduce all existing sequencing platforms and applications to biological science, as well the current trends in this field.
HINF 5650 - Integrative Genomics and Computational Methods
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring
Genome-scale high throughput data sets are a central feature of modern biological research and translational clinical study. Experimental, computational biologists and clinical researchers who want to get the most from their data sets need to have a firm grasp and understanding of genomic data structure characteristics, analytical methodology and the intrinsic connection to integrate. This course is designed to build competence in quantitative methods for the analysis of high-throughput genomic data and data integration.
HINF 8220 - Computational Causal Analytics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Identifying causal relationships and mechanisms is the ultimate goal of natural sciences. This course will introduce concepts and techniques underlying computational causal discovery and causal inference utilizing both observational and experimental data. Example applications of the above mentioned techniques in the domain of health sciences include reconstructing the molecular pathways underlying a particular disease, identifying the complex and interacting factors influencing a mental health disorder, and evaluating the potential impact of a public health policy. The course emphasizes both on the theoretical foundations and the practical aspects of causal discovery and causal inference. Students will gain hands-on experience with applying major causal discovery algorithms on simulated and real data.
HINF 8405 - Advanced Topics in Health Informatics I
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
Topics may include computer systems design for health sciences, small computer concepts/use, computers for clinical services, computer-aided medical decision making, biomedical image processing, pattern recognition, data mining. Case studies from health sciences. prereq: Professional student or grad student or instr consent
HINF 8406 - Advanced Topics in Health Informatics II
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
This is a topics course. Topics may include, computational causal discovery for health sciences, computer systems design for health sciences, small computer concepts and use, computers for clinical services, computer-aided medical decision making, biomedical image processing, and pattern recognition. Case studies from health sciences.
HINF 8492 - Advanced Readings or Research in Health Informatics
Credits: 1.0 -6.0 [max 24.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Directed readings or research in topics of current or theoretical interest in health informatics. prereq: HINF student or instr consent