IMPORTANT - Changes to requirements for Masters in Health and Medical Informatics, effective Fall 2012

The Division of Graduate Professional Studies is introducing changes to the program requirements for the Master of Science in Health and Medical Informatics degree.  Everyone who applies to the program after March 15, 2012 will follow the new program requirements. 

The curricula of all Graduate Professional Studies programs are reviewed regularly by the program chairs, faculty, and industry leaders.  Performed generally every two to three years, these program assessments help ensure that our programs and courses remain current, comprehensive, and relevant, adapting as the corresponding industries evolve.

The recent Health and Medical Informatics program review has resulted in several recommendations to strengthen the program and to fill identified gaps in the curriculum. With these changes we will continue to prepare industry professionals who are applying principles of information science to the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care.

Master of Science in Health and Medical Informatics Core/Elective Requirements – Prior to March 15, 2012

Required courses (6 courses. Either RCOM 102 or RMGT 110 may be taken as a required course. The other may be taken as an elective.)

RCOM 102 Professional Communications
RHIN 110 Perspectives on Health/Medical Information Systems
RHIN 115 Health Data and Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
RHIN 120 Health/Medical Information Systems Security
RHIN 125 Data Analysis and Decision Support for Health Informatics
RMGT 110 Organizational Leadership and Decision Making
RPJM 101 Foundations of Project Management

Electives (Choose 4)

RBIF 103 Probability and Statistics
RBIF 111 R for Biomedical Informatics
RBIF 113 Biological Database Systems
RHIN 126 Advanced Health Care Data Analytics
RHIN 150 Emerging Technologies in Health/Medical Informatics
RHIN 170 Business Models and Systems of Health and Medical Informatics
RHIN 200 Health/Medical Informatics Independent Study Project
RIAS 120 Securing Applications, Web Services and SOA
RIAS 125 Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery
RSEG 171 Data Warehousing and Data Mining

One of the following courses may be used to satisfy an elective requirement:

RCOM 102 Professional Communications
RMGT 102 Strategic Information Technology: Operational Strategy
RMGT 103 Strategic Information Technology: Organizational Strategy
RMGT 110 Organizational Leadership and Decision Making

Master of Science in Health and Medical Informatics NEW Core/Elective Requirements -- Effective March 16, 2012

Required courses (6 courses)

RHIN 110 Perspectives on Health/Medical Information Systems
RHIN 115 Health Data and Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
RHIN 120 Health/Medical Information Systems Security
RHIN 125 Data Analysis and Decision Support for Health Informatics
RHIN 170 Clinical Business Issues in Health Informatics (former elective Business Models and Systems of Health and Medical Informatics)
New Course: RHIN 160 Legal Issues in Health and Medical Informatics

Elective courses – Group A (choose at least 2 from this group)

RHIN 126 Advanced Health Care Data Analytics
RHIN 150 Emerging Technologies in Health/Medical Informatics
New Course: RHIN 130 Health Care Delivery in the US
New Course: RHIN 180 Strategic Application of IT in Healthcare
RPJM 101 Foundations of Project Management

Elective courses – Group B (choose at most 2 from this group)

RBIF 111 Introduction to R for Bioinformatics
RIAS 120 Securing Applications, Web Services, and SOA
RIAS 125 Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery
RSEG 171 Data Warehousing and Data Mining
RCOM 102 Professional Communications
RMGT 110 Organizational Leadership and Decision Making
RHIN 200 Independent Study Project

Students who are not yet formally accepted to the degree program may submit a completed application for admission prior to March 15 in order to be accepted to the Master of Science in Health and Medical Informatics before these changes in policy go into effect.

We encourage students to contact the office for advising on admissions and course selections. Questions or concerns about these changes may be directed to the Division of Graduate Professional Studies, (781) 736-8787 or GPS@brandeis.edu.