健康信息学推动着创新的未来方法在生物医学研究，临床护理和公共卫生中的信息和知识管理。健康信息学（HI）包括跨临床和公共卫生领域的应用研究和信息学实践。信息学研究人员在数据挖掘，自然语言或文本处理，认知科学，人机交互，决策支持，数据库和用于分析公共卫生中生成的大量数据的算法等领域中开发，引入和评估新的生物医学方法，临床研究和基因组学/蛋白质组学。硕士学位将提供健康信息学方面的全面培训，并在信息科学，临床信息学，临床研究信息学，消费者健康和人群健康信息学，数据科学等领域提供核心课程的平衡以及更广泛的卫生政策，
The science of health informatics drives innovation-defining future approaches to information and knowledge management in biomedical research, clinical care, and public health. Health informatics (HI) comprises applied research and the practice of informatics across clinical and public health domains. Informatics researchers develop, introduce, and evaluate new biomedically motivated methods in areas as diverse as data mining, natural language or text processing, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, decision support, databases and algorithms for analyzing large amounts of data generated in public health, clinical research and genomics/proteomics.<br><br>The MS degree will provide well-rounded training in Health Informatics, with a balance of core courses from such areas as information sciences, clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, consumer health and population health informatics, data science and more broadly health policy, social and behavioral science, biostatistics and epidemiology. The length of study for the MS in HI is two academic years. First-year courses survey the field, the typical second-year courses are more technical and put greater emphasis on mastering the skills in health informatics. The degree also requires a capstone project in the second year.