Health Informatics Specialization Plan of Study

It's Not Too Late to Launch Your Future

Student applications for the 2020-21 school year will be accepted until August 14 via the ApplyIU platform only. Applicants who apply up through this date will have until August 18 to submit all needed transcripts and materials to be reviewed for the fall semester. We will also continue to award admission-based scholarships for those who meet the qualification criteria.

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Core A Requirements (31 cr.)

INFO-I 100 First Year Experience (1 cr.)
INFO-I 201 Mathematical Foundations of Informatics (4 cr.)
INFO-I 210 Information Infrastructure I (4 cr.)
INFO-I 211 Information Infrastructure II (4 cr.)
INFO-I 223 Data Fluency (3 cr.)
INFO-I 275 Introduction to HCI Theory (3 cr.)
HIM-M 420 Health Information Project Management (3 cr.)
INFO-I 421 Applications of Data Mining (3 cr.)
PBHL-B 302 Biostatistics for Informatics (3 cr.)
CSCI 49000 or 36500 Foundations of Computer Science (3 cr.)

Health Informatics Requirements (36 cr.)

HIM-M 200 Database Design for HIM (3 cr.)
HIM-M 275 Effective Communication in Health Care (3 cr.)
HIM-M 350 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for HIM I (3 cr.)
HIM-M 351 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for HIM II (3 cr.)
INFO-B 406 Biomedical Informatics (3 cr.)
INFO-B 430 Introduction to Health Informatics (3 cr.)
INFO-B 435 Clinical Information Systems (3 cr.)
INFO-B 441 Business of Health Informatics (3 cr.)
INFO-B 442 Clinical Decision Support (3 cr.)
INFO-B 473 Application Programming for Biomedical Data Analysis (3 cr.)
INFO-B 481 Health Information Standards and Terminologies (3 cr.)
INFO-B 483 Security and Privacy Policies and Regulations for Healthcare (3 cr.)

Career Planning (2 cr.)

NEWM-N 299 Career Planning (2 cr.)

Capstone (3 cr.)

INFO-I 491 Capstone Project Internship (3 cr.)

General Education Requirements (34 cr.)

Core Communication (6 cr.)
Analytical Reasoning List A (6 cr.)
- MATH-M 118 Finite Math (3 cr.)
- MATH-M 119 Calculus (3 cr.)
Cultural Understanding (3 cr.)
- Recommended to take ANTH-A 104 Cultural Understanding (3 cr.).
Life and Physical Sciences (13 cr.)
- BIOL-N 261 Human Anatomy (5 cr.)
- BIOL-N 217 Human Physiology (5 cr.)
- CHEM-C 110 The Chemistry of Life (3 cr.)
Arts and Humanities (3 cr.)
Social Sciences (3 cr.)
- Recommended to take SHRS-W 200 Survey of Health Care Systems.

General Electives (14 cr.)

Choose from other IUPUI courses.