Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary Master of Science in Health Informatics was the first MS in the field and is now one of the few that is fully interdisciplinary between health science and computer science.
The program seeks to prepare students to address the combined clinical, technical, and business needs of health-related professionals. Students may opt to select a concentration to deepen their knowledge in a particular area. Successful students graduate with the knowledge of how technology, people, health, and the healthcare system interrelate; the ability to use technology and information management to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes; and the skills to communicate effectively among healthcare practitioners, administrators, information technology professionals, and patients.
Please visit Bouvé College Learning Outcomes for the specific student learning outcomes for this program.
Complete all courses and requirements listed below unless otherwise indicated.
A grade of B– or higher is required in each course.
Core Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| HINF 5101 | Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems | 3 |
| HINF 5105 | The American Healthcare System | 3 |
Program Options
Choose one of the following options:
- Health Informatics (Without Concentration)
- Health Informatics with Health Informatics Analytics Concentration
- Health Informatics with Personal Health Informatics Concentration
Program Credit/GPA Requirements
Minimum 33 total semester hours required
Minimum 3.000 GPA required
Health Informatics (Without Concentration)
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Coursework in Addition to Core Requirements | ||
| Business Management | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 6 | |
| Business Application of Decision Support in Healthcare | ||
| Organizational Behavior, Work Flow Design, and Change Management | ||
| Business of Healthcare Informatics | ||
| Project Management | ||
or EMGT 5220 | Engineering Project Management | |
| Management Issues in Healthcare Information Technology | ||
| Improving the Patient Experience through Informatics | ||
| Strategic Management and Leadership in Healthcare | ||
| Health Informatics | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 6 | |
| Data Management in Healthcare | ||
| Global Health Information Management | ||
| Theoretical Foundations in Personal Health Informatics | ||
| Personal Health Interface Design and Development | ||
| Evaluating Health Technologies | ||
| Creation and Application of Medical Knowledge | ||
| Public Health Surveillance and Informatics | ||
| Patient Engagement Informatics and Analytics | ||
| Quantifying the Value of Informatics | ||
| Evaluating Healthcare Quality | ||
| Technical | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 6 | |
| Database Design, Access, Modeling, and Security | ||
| Interoperability Key Standards in Health Informatics | ||
| Introduction to Health Data Analytics | ||
| Introduction to Epidemiology | ||
| Biostatistics in Public Health | ||
| Applied Regression Analysis | ||
| Principles of Population Health 1 | ||
| Advanced Methods in Biostatistics | ||
One course from the following may count toward the technical core requirement: | ||
| Collecting, Storing, and Retrieving Data | ||
| Introduction to Data Mining/Machine Learning | ||
| Introduction to Computational Statistics | ||
| Information Design and Visual Analytics | ||
| Capstone | ||
| HINF 7701 | Health Informatics Capstone Project | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 6 | |
| Collecting, Storing, and Retrieving Data | ||
| Introduction to Data Mining/Machine Learning | ||
| Design for Usability in Healthcare | ||
| Introduction to Computational Statistics | ||
| Information Design and Visual Analytics | ||
Health Informatics Analytics Concentration
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Coursework in Addition to Core Requirements | ||
| Business Management | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 6 | |
| Organizational Behavior, Work Flow Design, and Change Management | ||
| Business of Healthcare Informatics | ||
| Project Management | ||
or EMGT 5220 | Engineering Project Management | |
| Management Issues in Healthcare Information Technology | ||
| Improving the Patient Experience through Informatics | ||
| Strategic Management and Leadership in Healthcare | ||
| Health Informatics | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 6 | |
| Data Management in Healthcare | ||
| Global Health Information Management | ||
| Theoretical Foundations in Personal Health Informatics | ||
| Personal Health Interface Design and Development | ||
| Evaluating Health Technologies | ||
| Creation and Application of Medical Knowledge | ||
| Public Health Surveillance and Informatics | ||
| Patient Engagement Informatics and Analytics | ||
| Quantifying the Value of Informatics | ||
| Evaluating Healthcare Quality | ||
| Technical | ||
| IE 6200 | Engineering Probability and Statistics | 4 |
| OR 6205 | Deterministic Operations Research | 4 |
| Capstone | ||
| HINF 7701 | Health Informatics Capstone Project | 3 |
| Elective | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Computational Modeling in Industrial Engineering | ||
| Structured Data Analytics for Industrial Engineering | ||
| Healthcare Systems Modeling and Analysis | ||
| Data Mining for Engineering Applications | ||
| Computation and Visualization for Analytics | ||
| Data Management for Analytics | ||
| Data Mining in Engineering | ||
Personal Health Informatics Concentration
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Coursework in Addition to Core Requirements | ||
| Health Informatics | ||
| HINF 6205 | Creation and Application of Medical Knowledge | 3 |
| Technical | ||
| CS 5340 | Computer/Human Interaction | 4 |
| Complete one of the following. Students must petition to take electives outside the approved list. | 4 | |
| Programming Design Paradigm | ||
| Mobile Application Development | ||
| Web Development | ||
| Information Retrieval | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 3 | |
| Database Design, Access, Modeling, and Security | ||
| Interoperability Key Standards in Health Informatics | ||
| Theory and Evaluation | ||
| PHTH 5210 | Biostatistics in Public Health 1 | 3 |
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Empirical Research Methods (On campus only) | ||
| Theoretical Foundations in Personal Health Informatics | ||
| Culminating Experience | ||
| Complete one of the two options below. | 6 | |
| Thesis Option | ||
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. | ||
| Thesis | ||
| Capstone Option | ||
| Health Informatics Capstone Project | ||
Complete any course for a minumum of 3 semester from the Health Informatics (without concentration) curriculum, that has not been used in previous requirements. | ||
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Student may petition director to take a more advanced stats course, such as Applied Regression Analysis (PHTH 6210).