Master's in Health Informatics | Health Informatics

The Health Informatics Graduate Program requires 30 credits of course work and/or research for the MS degree. The program offers core courses and three focus areas separate from its core courses. A custom plan of study for is formulated for each individual as they enter the program.

Program Requirements

Health Informatics Graduate Foundations Courses (12 credits)
Focus Areas (9-18 credits)
Elective courses or Report option or Thesis option (6-10 credits)

Foundation Courses

Four courses or 12 credits are required under coursework, report, and thesis options to provide foundational health informatics knowledge prior to completion of individual focus areas and/or research credits. Successful completion of these courses will result in a student earning the Foundations of Health Informatics graduate certificate. The curriculum's core courses are as follows:

SAT 4650: Applied Computing in Python Programming (3 credits)
SAT 5001: Introduction to Health Informatics (3 credits)
SAT 5111: Security and Privacy (3 credits)
SAT 5131: Systems Analysis and Design (3 credits)

Focus Areas and Respective Courses

A minimum of six courses or 18 credits from the Focus Areas are required under the coursework option.
A minimum of four courses from the Focus Areas are required from the report option
A minimum of three courses from the Focus Area(s) are required for thesis option.
Each Focus Area's graduate certificate requires a minimum 9 credits, providing students with the opportunity to stack 9-credit focus area graduate certificate(s) under the Foundations of Health Informatics (12 credits) certificate as they complete their MS in Health Informatics from Michigan Tech.

1) Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - 9 credits required

SAT 5114: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (3 credits)
SAT 5141: Clinical Decision Support Modeling (3 credits)
EET 4501: Applied Machine Learning (3 credits) or SAT 5314: Applied Machine Learning in Healthcare (3 credits)

Successful completion of this focus area will result in an Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare graduate certificate.

2) Security and Privacy in Healthcare - 9 credits required

SAT 4520: Machine Learning in Security (3 credits)
SAT 5283: Information Governance and Risk Management (3 credits)
SAT 5815: Digital Forensics (3 credits)
SAT 5817: Security Penetration Test and Audit (3 credits)

Successful completion of this focus area will result in a Security and Privacy in Healthcare graduate certificate.

3) Public Health Informatics - 9 credits required

SAT 5165: Introduction to Big Data Analytics (3 credits)
SAT 5317: Medical Internet of Things (3 credits)
SAT 5424: Population Health Informatics (3 credits)

This focus area's graduate certificate is coming soon!

Elective Courses

A maximum of two courses or six credits may be used for elective credit.

Any SAT 5000 level course not taken from above
MA 5790: Predictive Modeling *
BA 5200: Information Systems Management *
FW 5083 : Programming Skills for Bioinformatics
MA 5781: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

* = Required courses to earn Graduate Certificate in Data Science

Curriculum Options

The program also permits three curriculum options: a thesis option, a report option, and a course work option.

MS, Health Informatics: Thesis Option

This option requires a research thesis prepared under the supervision of the advisor. The thesis describes a research investigation and its results. The scope of the research topic for the thesis should be defined in such a way that a full-time student could complete the requirements for a master’s degree in 12 months or three semesters following the completion of coursework by regularly scheduling graduate research credits.

The minimum requirements are as follows:

Total Credit Requirements
Option Parts	Credits
Coursework (minimum)	20 Credits
Thesis research	6-10 Credits
Total (minimum)	30 Credits

Distribution of Coursework Credit
Distribution	Credits
5000-6000 series (minimum)	12 Credits
3000-4000 (maximum)	12 Credits

Programs may have stricter requirements and may require more than the minimum number of credits listed here.

MS, Health Informatics: Report Option

This option requires a report describing the results of an independent study project. The scope of the research topic should be defined in such a way that a full-time student could complete the requirements for a master’s degree in twelve months or three semesters following the completion of coursework by regularly scheduling graduate research credits.

Of the minimum total of 30 credits, at least 24 must be earned in coursework other than the project:

Total Credit Requirements
Option Parts	Credits
Coursework (minimum)	24 Credits
Report	2-6 Credits
Total (minimum)	30 Credits

Distribution of Coursework Credit
Distribution	Credits
5000-6000 series (minimum)	12 Credits
3000-4000 (maximum)	12 Credits

Programs may have stricter requirements and may require more than the minimum number of credits listed here.

MS, Health Informatics: Coursework Option

This option requires a minimum of 30 credits be earned through coursework. A limited number of research credits may be used with the approval of the advisor, department, and Graduate School. See degree requirements for more information.

A graduate program may require an oral or written examination before conferring the degree and may require more than the minimum credits listed here:

Distribution of Coursework Credit
Distribution	Credits
5000-6000 series (minimum)	18 Credits
3000-4000 (maximum)	12 Credits