Masters

HI 599: Professional Development (0 credit hours)

HI 611: Introduction to Health Informatics and Healthcare Delivery (4 credit hours)
Overview of history and current status of health information technology (health IT) and health informatics within the US health care system, including approaches for planning, implementing and evaluating health IT and the legal and ethical issues involved in the use of health IT.

HI 613: Analysis and Design of Health Information Systems (4 credit hours)
Concepts, methods, approaches, standards, and tools in analyzing, modeling, designing, and implementing user centered health information systems.

HI 614: Clinical and Administrative Systems (3 credit hours)
Clinical and administrative systems with an emphasis on clinical decision support methods, tools, and systems. Types of methods, tools, and systems used in inpatient and outpatient settings, information flow across systems within healthcare settings, strategies for user centered design, implementation and evaluation of systems.

HI 617: Principles in Health Informatics (3 credit hours)
Underpinnings in Health Informatics policies, practices, and principles; Inter-and intra-organizational application of socio-technical information systems and data to enhance research and practice in healthcare.

HI 620: Security and Privacy in Healthcare (3 credit hours)
Security and privacy issues, legislation, regulations, and accreditation standards unique to the health care domain and relative to various group layers (individual, social, and society). Concepts, theories, methods, models, and tools related to technical security of data across networks, systems, databases and storage, audit mechanisms and controls.

HI 618: Research Methods in Health Informatics (3 credit hours)
Fundamental concepts, methods, and approaches of qualitative and quantitative data analysis, including statistical analysis and measurement techniques, for clinical and health informatics.

HI 619: Database and Data Modeling (3 credit hours)
Concepts of data modeling, database design and administration, data architectures, and data querying for transactional and analytical data systems. Study of various data models with application to health information projects using SQL in current database management systems.

HI 621: Strategic Planning, Project Management and Contracting (3 credit hours)
Theory, practice, and processes needed for strategic planning of integrated health information systems. Assessing benefits of enterprise-wide information integration and tactics needed to realize these benefits. Steps needed for developing strategic plans and understanding drivers of information systems - corporate business alignment. Understanding key concepts of project management. Exposure to skills needed to negotiate contracts with vendors.

HI 599: Professional Development (0 credit hours)

HI 641: Healthcare Data Analytics Challenges, Methods and Tools (3 credit hours)
Current factors, methods, and tools affecting data collection, management, analytics, integration, and reporting in healthcare, including use of various ontologies and standards, and healthcare challenges affecting data analytics.

HI 642: Advanced Data Management and Analytics for Healthcare (3 credit hours)
Automation of database management and basic Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) and data analytics tasks using advanced SQL. Creation and optimization of relational databases. Current data modeling and database architecture approaches and their uses in healthcare. Integration of data mining and analytics into database management platforms.

HI 671: Data Analytics Capstone Project (1 credit hour)
Initiation of first steps in identifying and developing the HI Capstone Project; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problem solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

HI 643: Business Intelligence for Healthcare (3 credit hours)
Current concepts, methods and tools in Business Intelligence for healthcare. Approaches for data modeling for data warehouses, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes, data marts, data integration, and data visualization.

HI 646: Advanced Quantitative Methods for Health Informatics (3 credit hours)
Concepts, methods, and tools used in advanced quantitative data analytics to address a range of problems in health informatics, including prediction, classification, and pattern recognition across a variety of levels (individual, social group, and society).

HI 673: Data Analytics Capstone Project II
Continuation course for the HI Capstone Project involving project proposal development; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problems solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

HI 624: Leadership Theory and Development (2 credit hours)
Exploration of leadership theory and development, and the role of leadership in internal and external advocacy. The emphasis is on the application of leadership theories to individuals and groups in healthcare settings.

HI 675: Data Analytics Capstone Project III (3 credit hours)
Final course for the HI Capstone Project involving project execution, management, and dissemination; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problems solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

HI 599: Professional Development (0 credit hours)

HI 656: Human Factors in Healthcare IT Systems (3 credit hours)
Overview of the importance of human factors engineering in the function of healthcare IT systems and specialized challenges to user experience (UX) research in the context of the healthcare system. Application of user-centered theory, principles, data, and methods to the design of healthcare IT systems. Implementation of UX research methods to evaluate and understand the interactions between healthcare IT systems and their users.

HI 657: Human-centered Research Design Methods for Healthcare (3 credit hours)
Design Thinking methodology intensive. Discussion of the importance of qualitative user research. Understanding of discovery to enable Identification of proper user research approaches and establishing research goals. Overview tools and processes for deep research discovery. Students will select a healthcare context for the application of research methods.

HI 672: User Experience Capstone Project I (1 credit hour)
Initiation of first steps in identifying and developing the HI Capstone Project; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problem solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

HI 658: Development of User Centered Health Information Systems (3 credit hours)
Development approaches involving principles of human-centered design, leading to high fidelity health information system prototypes.

HI 659: Qualitative Synthesis for Healthcare Insights (3 credit hours)
Overview and execution of qualitative research methods and data gathering within the healthcare context to enable the delivery of solutions. Focus on the application of research theories, methods, and tools to deliver insights and qualitative and quantitative outputs. Understanding socio-technical factors relative to fundamental interface design elements and interface layouts across modalities. Journey mapping, concepting, user flows, and wireframing will be generated.

HI 674: User Experience Capstone Project II (1 credit hour)
Continuation course for the HI Capstone Project involving project proposal development; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problems solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

HI 624: Leadership Theory and Development (2 credit hours)
Exploration of leadership theory and development, and the role of leadership in internal and external advocacy. The emphasis is on the application of leadership theories to individuals and groups in healthcare settings.

HI 676: User Experience Capstone Project III (3 credit hours)
Final course for the HI Capstone Project involving project execution, management, and dissemination; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problems solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

HI 599: Professional Development (0 credit hours)

HI 633: AI Methods in Health Services (3 credit hours)

HI 634: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence in Health Services (3 credit hours)

HI 680: Artificial Intelligence Capstone Project I (1 credit hour)

HI 635: Data Mining, Management, and Modeling for Artificial Intelligence in Health Services (3 credit hours)

HI 636: Human Factors Considerations for Artificial Intelligence in Health Services (3 credit hours)

HI 681: Artificial Intelligence Capstone Project II (1 credit hour)

HI 624: Leadership Theory and Development (2 credit hours)

HI 682: Artificial Intelligence Capstone Project III (3 credit hours)

HI 599: Professional Development (0 credit hours)

INFO 696: Biomedical Informatics Methods I (3 credit hours)
Biomedical informatics is the art and science of collecting, representing and analyzing patient and biomedical information and translating insights from the information into better health and new medical discoveries. The spectrum of informatics applications ranges from molecules (bioinformatics) to individuals and populations (clinical and public health informatics). We will examine the scientific field and research methods that form the foundation for biomedical informatics research. The course will include didactics, readings, hands-on tool explorations, and a summative work product. This foundational course is intended for informatics majors and students in allied fields (e.g., health, biological, or computer sciences) who are interested in exploring the field of informatics.

HI XXX: Health Informatics Elective (3 credit hours)

HI 677: Research Capstone Project I (1 credit hours)
Initiation of first steps in identifying and developing the HI Capstone Project; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problem solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

INFO 697: Biomedical Informatics Methods II (3 credit hours)
Biomedical informatics is the art and science of collecting, representing and analyzing patient and biomedical information and translating insights from the information into better health and new medical discoveries. The spectrum of informatics applications ranges from molecules (bioinformatics) to individuals and populations (clinical and public health informatics). We will examine the scientific field and research methods that form the foundation for biomedical informatics research. The course will include didactics, readings, and applications in applying research methods, culminating in a research plan in grant proposal format and review by a mock panel. This foundational course is intended for informatics majors and students in allied fields (e.g., health, biological, or computer sciences) who are interested in exploring the field of informatics. It is primarily intended for students who will pursue research careers in biomedical informatics and is the second course in a two-part series.

HI XXX: Health Informatics Elective (3 credit hours)

HI 678: Research Capstone Project II (1 credit hours)
Continuation course for the HI Capstone Project involving project proposal development; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problems solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.

HI 624: Leadership Theory and Development (2 credit hours)
Exploration of leadership theory and development, and the role of leadership in internal and external advocacy. The emphasis is on the application of leadership theories to individuals and groups in healthcare settings.

HI 679: Research Capstone III (3 credit hours)
Final course for the HI Capstone Project involving project execution, management, and dissemination; the Capstone project is a focused investigation of a health informatics problem in a real-world setting and application of problems solving methodologies for development and execution of solutions.