MS Health Informatics

• You will gain the professional and historical perspective of the health informatics field and how it connects to related domains, along with the ability to critically and analytically assess health informatics literature.
• You will also have the resources of Loyola's Center for Health Outcomes and Informatics Research (CHOIR) at your disposal. This interdisciplinary center focuses on informatics research, as well as rapid testing and implementation of data-driven strategies.

• You will be able to analyze problems, assess solutions against specific measures, and generate new bodies of knowledge from initial data, while understanding the ethical considerations of data usage, specifically as they relate to patient safety and privacy.
• You will also develop new frameworks and models to solve health informatics and data science problems.

We are grounded in Jesuit values as we pursue our mission. Specifically, we will behave in a manner consistent with social justice, collaboration, scholarship, critical thinking, advocacy, professionalism, ethical behavior, and humility.

Graduates will be prepared for the following careers:

• Healthcare Data Analyst  - Salary Information: $60,000-90,000/year 
• Senior Healthcare Analyst - Salary Information: $84,000-104,000/year 
• Physician Scientist (when combined with an MD program) - Salary Information: $143,000/year 
• Nurse Informaticist or Clinical Informaticist RN (when combined with an nursing program) - Salary Information: $102,000/year 

• Foundations of Health Informatics
• Clinical Data Science
• Security and Privacy in Health care
• Translational Bioinformatics
• Ontologies in Health

• Biostatistics I
• Machine Learning

Technical Electives (9 credits)

Choose from the following:

• Health care Organizations
• Data Mining
• Free and Open-Source Computing
• Database Programming
• Clinical Decision Systems
• Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Health
• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Epidemiology II
• Biostatistics II
• Geographic Information Systems

or other relevant courses, with mentor’s approval.

Social Electives (3 credits)

Choose from the following:

• Research Ethics
• Principles of Health care Ethics
• Social Determinants of Health and Bioethics
• Ethics, Genetics, and Health Policy
• Studies in Logic
• Principles of Health care Ethics
• Clinical Health care Ethics or Clinical Bioethics
• Social Health care Ethics or Justice and Health Care
• Health Policy and Health Systems
• Human Behavior in Social Environment

Two-semester capstone project or internship with capstone report and presentation.

Total: at least 39 credits (capstone project) or 33 credits (internship with capstone report and presentation).

• Overall undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher and discipline-specific GPA of 3.0 or higher
• A personal statement
• Two letters of recommendation
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE) taken within the past four years can be considered, but is not necessary

August 10: Fall semester application deadline