Master of Science in Health Informatics
About the Program
The opportunities for Health Informatics training at UT Southwestern are extensive, comprehensive, challenging, and will prepare you for a career at the interface of health care and technology. Our faculty are dedicated to providing an outstanding education for those who will shape the future direction of health care.
You will study the best ways to create and deliver knowledge to clinicians and patients, when and where needed. You will innovate, optimize, and modify care processes and provide safeguards to protect patients, systems, and providers.
Our goal is to transform students who are passionate about health informatics into health informatics professionals who will use their skills, knowledge, and passion to improve individual health, health care delivery, public health, and biomedical research.
What to Expect
The Master of Science in Health Informatics program will provide students with the interpersonal, cognitive, analytical, and applied skills needed to thrive in the field of health informatics.
Students will build on skills already obtained through their previous education in medicine, health, computer science, or information technology and gain knowledge from educators with firsthand knowledge of systems and system challenges. Graduates will initiate meaningful change and be multidisciplinary leaders in the field of health informatics.
Health Informatics Research and Activities
- Recommended Professions and Areas of Study
Clinicians
Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, nutritionists, and other ancillary health professionals interested in either taking on a leadership role in health information technology or already in a position of leadership with a desire to expand knowledge and skills.
Information Technology Professionals
Professionals with expertise in information technology or health information management including analysts, programmers, project managers, or privacy and security professionals interested in applying their existing expertise to the field of health care.
Computer Scientists
Professionals with a degree in computer science who want to leverage their knowledge and skills in developing or validating models, usability, and human-machine interfaces in health care on health data and systems.
Data Scientists
Experts in analyzing, cleaning, modifying, interpreting, and converting data for knowledge discovery and with statistical skills, who want to work inside the health care system and leverage the data generated in the process of care delivery.
- Curriculum
Our curriculum is based on 10 domains determined by the American Medical Informatics Association and includes a range of foundational courses and electives.
- Research
The Capstone research experience is designed to allow the students to acquire real life experience, translate newly acquired academic knowledge into projects, and leverage evaluation, data analytic, and other scientific methodologies in the evaluation of the project by partnering with a faculty member or an operational team at UT Southwestern or another institution.
- Program Format
Full-time: 2 year program
Part-time: 2.5 year program
- Clinical Informatics Research Colloquium
The Clinical Informatics Center at UT Southwestern hosts a bimonthly Clinical Informatics Research Colloquium to highlight the great work done at UT Southwestern in the clinical informatics space. This is part of our effort to bring clinical informatics, research informatics, and other data and informatics scientists together at UT Southwestern to foster exchange of ideas, collaboration, and development of grants, papers, and novel projects.
