Prepare to transform complex biomedical data into smarter, patient-centered solutions. Blending healthcare, IT, and data science, the program teaches you to analyze and protect patient information, improve care delivery, and support clinical decisions—all from the heart of Indiana’s leading health innovation hub.
Harness data to revolutionize heathcare
At a glance
Format
Online or on-campus
Start dates
Fall or Spring
What you'll learn
In this 36-credit-hour Health Informatics master’s degree program, you’ll learn to design tools that help manage unstructured health data, apply natural language processing, and enhance systems like clinical decision support and electronic health records—all while safeguarding patient privacy. You’ll finish with a thesis or project that tackles a real-world health informatics challenge.
CAHIIM-accredited and AMIA-approved
Our Master of Science in Health Informatics is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) and approved by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
The Health Informatics accreditor of Indiana University is the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). The College’s accreditation for the master’s degree in Health Informatics has been reaffirmed through 2030. All inquiries about the program’s accreditation status should be directed by mail to CAHIIM, 200 East Randolph Street, Suite 5100, Chicago, IL, 60601; by phone at (312) 235-3255; or by email at info@cahiim.org.
Curriculum
You'll learn to design tools for managing unstructured data, apply natural language processing, and improve systems like electronic health records and clinical decision support. The program emphasizes real-world applications and concludes with a thesis or project that addresses a current challenge in health informatics, based in the heart of Indiana’s health innovation hub.
Degree pathways
This master's degree includes seven core health informatics courses, three courses in your chosen track (professional or thesis), and two electives. Tailor your electives to areas like data science, programming, or health information security, with options to specialize in home health software, clinical research informatics, or health care systems.
Upon completion of the master of Health Informatics, students attain the following competencies expected of practitioners in the discipline:
Fundamental professional and interdisciplinary skills:
- Analyze problems: Analyze, understand, abstract, and model a specific biomedical problem in terms of their data, information, and knowledge components.
- Produce solutions: Use the analysis to identify and understand the space of possible solutions and generate designs that capture essential aspects of solutions and their components.
- Implement, evaluate, and refine: Carry out the solution (including obtaining necessary resources and managing projects), evaluate it, and iteratively improve it.
- Innovate: Create new theories, typologies, frameworks, representations, methods, and processes to address biomedical informatics problems.
- Work collaboratively: Team effectively with partners within and across disciplines.
Health and health care systems skills:
- Understand the fundamentals of the field in the context of the effective use of biomedical data, information, and knowledge.
- For substantive problems related to scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create solutions based on biomedical informatics approaches.
- Apply, analyze, evaluate, and relate biomedical information, concepts, and models spanning molecules to individuals to populations.
- Analyze and evaluate complex biomedical informatics problems in terms of data, information, and knowledge.
Technological skills:
- Apply, analyze, and create data structures, algorithms, programming, mathematics, statistics.
- Apply, analyze, and create technological approaches in the context of biomedical problems.
- Apply and evaluate methods of inquiry and criteria for selecting and using algorithms, techniques, and methods to solve substantive health informatics problems.
Human and social context:
Health Informatics recognizes that people are the end users of biomedical information, draws on the social and behavioral sciences to inform the design, development, and evaluation of technical solutions, policies, and economic, ethical, social, educational, and organizational systems.
The above learning outcomes are guided by this article:
Kulikowski, C. A., Shortliffe, E. H., Currie, L. M., Elkin, P. L., Hunter, L. E., Johnson, T. R., … & Smith, J. W. (2012). AMIA Board white paper: definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 19(6), 931-938.
Indiana's healthcare hub
Home to the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry; the Regenstrief Institute; and the VA, the Indianapolis campus has a strong healthcare focus. IU Indy is a center for technological innovations in health science, where our faculty are engaged in cutting-edge research.
Cost and financial aid
Graduate tuition at Luddy Indianapolis is charged per credit hour.
Cost per credit hour for the 2025-26 academic year:
- $423 In-state
- $634 Indiana Partners
- $1,178 Out of state and international
Scholarships
Students who meet criteria for admission will be considered for an admission-based scholarship if attending full-time. Scholarships are awarded each semester and range from $500 to $2,250 per semester.
Career outcomes
Graduates of the Health Informatics program are stepping into a growing field where healthcare, technology, and data science come together to improve patient outcomes. With training in analyzing and securing biomedical data, you'll be ready to support clinical decisions, enhance care delivery, and drive innovation in one of Indiana’s leading health tech hubs.
$60KMedian starting salary
95%Employed / continuing education
Recent employers
- Hospitals
- Insurance companies
- Government agencies
- Health IT software companies
Recent job titles
- Data analyst
- Data scientist
- Healthcare analyst
- Biostatistician
- IT analyst
- Clinical data analyst
- Application system administrator
Support from Luddy
Luddy’s career services team and faculty mentors help connect you with internships, job fairs, and biotech and healthcare leaders.
Admission requirements
Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale. The GRE is optional for Health Informatics master's candidates.
A strong background in one or more of the following fields is preferred:
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Health Information Management
- Mathematics
- Nursing
- Physics
- Statistics
Proficiency in at least one of the following coursework areas (or equivalent experience):
- Computer programming
- Databases
- Medical terminology
- Human anatomy and physiology
Admission deadlines
Fall
- January 15 (Early action)
- April 1 (International)
- July 1 (Domestic)
Spring
- August 15 (International)
- November 1 (Domestic)
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