This Informatics major concentration will prepare students for a career in the rapidly evolving, data-driven healthcare industry. Learn the skills you need to design and use information technologies to improve healthcare delivery, healthcare management, and health outcomes.
Health Informatics is an interdisciplinary professional specialty and scientific discipline that aims to improve all aspects of health through information technology.
Students in the Health Informatics major concentration will learn to:
BSI in Informatics Degree Plan
Informatics majors learn the skills and knowledge required to collect, manage, and analyze data and information, and prepare for the great ethical responsibility that comes with these societally transformative roles.
Students develop an understanding of the complex social, cultural, and ethical context related to communicating with digital and social media tools, and to apply this understanding to creating digital solutions and technologies that are effective, inclusive, and responsive to the needs, values, and perspectives of people with many different lived experiences.
In this introductory course, students will explore the foundational theories, concepts, and challenges in Cultural Heritage Informatics, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Data Science, Social Informatics, Social Justice Informatics, and User Experience Design. View Course Listings
In Introduction to Health Informatics, students will explore the information systems and technologies used to design and improve healthcare delivery, healthcare management, and health outcomes. View Course Listings
In addition to taking the introductory course for their selected Informatics major concentration, students must also complete an introductory course in another Informatics major concentration:
Students must complete nine credit hours in Advanced Topics in Health Informatics. View Course Listings
Students pursuing the School of Information Honors distinction may substitute I 679H: Honors Thesis (6 HRS). View Course Listings
Students must complete three credit hours of Informatics elective coursework at the School of Information. View Course Listings
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The AI Health Lab is led by the iSchool's Ying Ding and Justin Rousseau from the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. The AI Health Lab is made up of scholars and students from different fields and disciplines. We focus on cutting-edge research on AI in health and data-driven science of science.
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