University of Michigan School of Information

Master of Health Informatics Mastery Course

Master of Health Informatics (MHI)

(Sections xx4 - Winter Term Only)

This capstone course allows students to demonstrate mastery in Health Informatics through the independent design and execution of a substantial research or design project. Moving beyond traditional lectures, students show professional initiative while the instructor provides coaching as a Senior Consultant/Project Manager. Success signifies professional-level proficiency suitable for roles such as a Health Data Analyst or Clinical Informatics Specialist

Enforced Prerequisites (completed with C- or better): 

HMP 600: The Health Services System

LHS 650: Introduction to Health Infrastructure

SI 500: Problem-Solving with People, Information, and Technology

SI 506: Programming I (or waiver)

SI 542 / LHS 668 / HMP 668: Introduction to Health Informatics

SI 648 / LHS 660: Evaluation Methods in Health Informatics and Learning Systems

Area 1 (Select 9 credit from the following list)

  • BA 523: Comprehensive Healthcare Strategies

  • BIOSTAT 601: Probability and Distribution Theory

  • BIOSTAT 625: Computing with Big Data

  • HMP 601: Healthcare Quality, Performance Measurement, and Improvement

  • HMP 603: Organization and Management of Health Systems

  • HMP 637: Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Policy

  • HMP 669: Data Management and Visualization in Healthcare

  • LHS 610: Exploratory Data Analysis for Health

  • LHS 731: Intro to Management of Health IT

  • SI 504: Servers, The Shell, and Git AND SI 564: SQL & Databases

  • SI 507: Intermediate Programming

  • SI 544: Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis (or waiver)

  • SI 554 / HBHEQ 654: Consumer Health Informatics

  • SI 582: Introduction to Interaction Design (or waiver)

  • SI 588: Principles of User Experience Design (or waiver)

  • SI 602: Math Foundations for Applied Data Science (or waiver)