除专业外，选修课还提供第二个学习领域。它通常包括6-8门课程，并且会在您的学位课程中得到认可。健康信息学（HI）是一个多学科领域，研究如何使用计算机技术更好地生成，管理，存储和应用健康信息。在“健康信息学选件”中，您将学习健康科学，计算机科学，统计学，行为和社会科学以及流行病学的课程。职业机会通常涉及在各种医疗机构中设计和实施健康信息系统（例如，建立电子病历或建立“最佳实践”数据库）。
Focus on preventing illness, not simply treating people once they get sick. At Waterloo, you’ll learn how to promote healthy lifestyles, improve health care systems, and bring together the science and the social aspects of health.Whether you opt for the regular or co op stream, Health Studies similar to Health Science programs at other universities gives you the skills for improving human health, along with lots of room for electives. And with five specializations and dozens of campus wide minors, you can tailor your studies to your specific areas of interest.You’ll graduate with the skills to tackle global health epidemics, transform public health policy, and pave the way for new medical breakthroughs. At the University of Waterloo, you'll study human health in a non traditional way. Rather than a focus on treatments after diagnosis, we have a larger vision: to find strategies for preventing disease, promoting health, and improving health care services to make them more integrated and responsive. Be prepared to tackle health challenges and look for the keys to transforming the health of individuals, communities, and health care systems in Canada and around the world.