Health Informatics

Looking at health data from all the angles

Identifying problems and crafting solutions using biomedical data—while never forgetting patients’ needs—is what we’re all about.

The Master of Science in Health Informatics degree integrates health care, health information technology, informatics, and many other fields. Our students learn to analyze and protect patient data, and to improve the quality of medical care and make it more efficient.

Online option

Earn your degree online, on-campus, or a hybrid of the two.

A health care hub

IU's Indianapolis campus has a strong health care focus, and is home to the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry; the Regenstrief Institute; and the VA.

CAHIIM-accredited

Our program is accredited by CAHIIM and approved by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

$72,000Median starting salary

98%Employed / Continuing Education

86.8%Retention rate

73.7%Graduation rate

Personalize your degree to meet your goals

Our 36-credit-hour program equips students to examine how patients use their health care information, and to the build the tools that make it easier to manage unstructured data and extract useful information. By learning how to appropriately utilize natural language processing and other tools, our graduates can improve clinical decision support, electronic health records management, and patient privacy.

You’ll complete your health informatics master’s degree with either a thesis or a project, which provides a practical solution to a health information problem.

CAHIIM-accredited and AMIA-approved

CAHIIM Seal

Our Master of Science in Health Informatics is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) and approved by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

 

The Health Informatics accreditor of Indiana University is the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). The College’s accreditation for Master’s degree in Health Informatics has been reaffirmed through 2030. All inquiries about the program’s accreditation status should be directed by mail to CAHIIM, 200 East Randolph Street, Suite 5100, Chicago, IL, 60601; by phone at (312) 235-3255; or by email at info@cahiim.org.