Health Informatics, MS (Boston)
Graduatemajor2027 catalogHealth SciencesBoston33 semester hours totalverified parse
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Core Requirements
- HINF 5101 — Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems
- HINF 5105 — The American Healthcare System
Concentrations (choose 1)
Health Informatics (Without Concentration)
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
One course from the following may count toward the technical core requirement:
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
- HINF 5407 — Business Application of Decision Support in Healthcare
- HINF 6201 — Organizational Behavior, Work Flow Design, and Change Management
- HINF 6202 — Business of Healthcare Informatics
- One of:
- HINF 6335 — Management Issues in Healthcare Information Technology
- HINF 6240 — Improving the Patient Experience through Informatics
- PHTH 5226 — Management and Leadership in Public Health and Healthcare
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
- HINF 5102 — Data Management in Healthcare
- HINF 5110 — Global Health Information Management
- HINF 5200 — Theoretical Foundations in Personal Health Informatics
- HINF 5300 — Personal Health Interface Design and Development
- HINF 5301 — Evaluating Health Technologies
- HINF 5500 — Artificial Intelligence and Health Informatics
- HINF 6205 — Creation and Application of Medical Knowledge
- HINF 6404 — Patient Engagement Informatics and Analytics
- HINF 6405 — Quantifying the Value of Informatics
- HLTH 5800 — AI Across the Health Sciences
- PHTH 5232 — Evaluating Healthcare Quality
- Choose 0 semester hours from:
- DA 5020 — Collecting, Storing, and Retrieving Data
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
- HINF 6220 — Database Design, Access, Modeling, and Security
- HINF 6355 — Interoperability Key Standards in Health Informatics
- HINF 6400 — Introduction to Health Data Analytics
- PHTH 5202 — Introduction to Epidemiology
- PHTH 5210 — Biostatistics in Public Health
- PHTH 6210 — Applied Regression Analysis
- PHTH 7400 — Principles of Population Health 1
- PHTH 7440 — Advanced Methods in Biostatistics
- DA 5030 — Introduction to Data Mining/Machine Learning
- INSH 5301 — Introduction to Computational Statistics
- INSH 5302 — Information Design and Visual Analytics
- HINF 7701 — Health Informatics Capstone Project
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
Health Informatics with Health Informatics Analytics Concentration
From the catalog
Business Management
Complete two of the following:
Complete one of the following:
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
- HINF 6201 — Organizational Behavior, Work Flow Design, and Change Management
- HINF 6202 — Business of Healthcare Informatics
- One of:
- HINF 6335 — Management Issues in Healthcare Information Technology
- HINF 6240 — Improving the Patient Experience through Informatics
- PHTH 5226 — Management and Leadership in Public Health and Healthcare
From the catalog
Health Informatics
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
- HINF 5102 — Data Management in Healthcare
- HINF 5110 — Global Health Information Management
- HINF 5200 — Theoretical Foundations in Personal Health Informatics
- HINF 5300 — Personal Health Interface Design and Development
- HINF 5301 — Evaluating Health Technologies
- HINF 5500 — Artificial Intelligence and Health Informatics
- HINF 6205 — Creation and Application of Medical Knowledge
- HINF 6404 — Patient Engagement Informatics and Analytics
- HINF 6405 — Quantifying the Value of Informatics
- HLTH 5800 — AI Across the Health Sciences
- PHTH 5232 — Evaluating Healthcare Quality
From the catalog
Technical
- IE 6200 — Engineering Probability and Statistics
- OR 6205 — Deterministic Operations Research
From the catalog
Capstone
- HINF 7701 — Health Informatics Capstone Project
- One of:
- IE 5137 — Computational Modeling in Industrial Engineering
- IE 5390 — Structured Data Analytics for Industrial Engineering
- IE 5400 — Healthcare Systems Modeling and Analysis
- IE 5640 — Data Mining for Engineering Applications
- IE 6600 — Computation and Visualization for Analytics
- IE 6700 — Data Management for Analytics
- IE 7275 — Machine Learning and Data Analytics
Health Informatics with Personal Health Informatics Concentration
From the catalog
Health Informatics
Complete one of the two options below.
Students must enroll in HINF 7990 for two semesters for a total of 6 semester hours with director approval only and under supervision of Personal Health Informatics faculty:
Complete any course for a minimum of 3 semester from the Health Informatics (without concentration) curriculum, that has not been used in previous requirements.
- HINF 6205 — Creation and Application of Medical Knowledge
From the catalog
Technical
- CS 5340 — Computer/Human Interaction
From the catalog
Complete one of the following. Students must petition to take electives outside the approved list:
- One of:
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
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Theory and Evaluation
- PHTH 5210 — Biostatistics in Public Health
From the catalog
Complete one of the following:
- One of:
- One of:
GPA requirements
- Minimum 33 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required
Substitutions
Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:
- Student may petition director to take a more advanced stats course, such as Applied Regression Analysis (PHTH 6210).
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