Health-IS Academic Programs (updated 12/28/2009)

This listing focuses on health-related academic programs that are based in or substantially comprised of Information Systems, Information Science, and/or Computer Science academic units.  AIS SIG-Health maintains this listing in order to help SIG members identify colleagues and professional resources across health-IS programs. Listings of the broader set of biomedical informatics programs are available from AMIA and HIMSS websites.

To recommend a program for addition to this list or to request modifications to a current listing, please send an email with description and/or web link to Prof. Vance Wilson (vancewilson[at]gmail.com).

School Location Unit Programs URL Comments
Claremont Graduate University USA School of Information Systems and Technology MHIM Program Website Masters in Health Information Management
Dakota State University USA College of Business and Information Systems AS, BS, MS Program Website Offers all programs via distance education.
Dalhousie University Canada Interdisciplinary Informatics Program BS, MS Program Website Highly interdisciplinary program, headquartered in Computer Science dept.
Georgia State University USA J. Mack Robinson College of Business BS, MS Program Website The goal of the concentration in Health Informatics is to provide students with specialized skills to improve healthcare services enabled by information technology.
Grand Valley State University USA School of Computing and Information Systems MS Program Website Students can specialize in informatics for biological research or clinical informatics and computing.
Idaho State University USA College of Business BBA Program Website Joint offering of Colleges of Business and Health Professions
Illinois Institute of Technology USA Graduate School of Business MBA, MS, Certificate Program Website Center for the Management of Medical Technology offers concentrations in MBA and MS in Health Management degrees
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis USA School of Informatics at IUPUI BS, MS, PhD Program Website Focuses are: Understanding the impact technology has on people; development of new uses for technology; application of information technology in the context of another field.
Milwaukee School of Engineering USA Rader School of Business MS Program Website Approaches medical informatics from a business-oriented perspective.
Northeastern University USA Graduate Program in Health Informatics MS Program Website Interdisciplinary program between Colleges of Health Sciences and Computer and Information Science.
Northern Kentucky University USA College of Informatics MHI Program Website Masters in Health Informatics
Queens University Canada School of Computing BA, BS, MS, PhD Program Website Focus on biomedical computing as well as medical informatics.
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville USA School of Business Certificate Program Website Masters in Clinical and Health Informatics under development
Stevens Institute of Technology USA Howe School of Technology Management MS, Certificate Program Website IT in Pharmaceutical Industry track and certificate programs for healthcare and IT professionals
Trinity College Ireland O' Reilly Institute MS Program Website Interdisciplinary program comprising faculties of Health Sciences and Engineering.
University of Hawaii USA Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Communication and Information Sciences Ph.D. Program Website Program offers a Bio-medical Informatics emphasis area
University of Michigan USA School of Information MS Program Website Offers dual degree programs in conjunction with business, medicine, law, social work, public policy, and nursing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA School of Information and Library Science MS, Certificate Program Website Dual MS degrees of Information Science or Library Science with Health Policy and Administration, Medicine (with Duke University), and Nursing; Certificates in aging and bioinformatics specialties.
University of Otago New Zealand Department of Information Science MS, Ph.D. Program Website Distance-taught postgraduate program in health informatics
University of Ottawa Canada Telfer School of Management MS Program Website M.Sc. in Health Systems
University of Toronto Canada Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation MHI Program Website Master of Health Informatics, offered in collaboration with the Faculty of Information
University of Toronto Canada Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation MS, Ph.D. Program Website Interdisciplinary program in Health Services Research among the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME) and the Faculty of Information Studies (FIS)
University of Victoria Canada Health Information Science BS, MS Program Website Combined majors between Computer Science and Health Information Science
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee USA College of Engineering and Applied Science PhD Program Website Interdisciplinary program among Colleges of Engineering and Applied Science, Health Sciences, and Nursing and Schools of Business and Information Studies
University of Wollongong Australia School of Information Technology and Computer Science MS Program Website Offered by the School of Information Technology and Computer Science