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Health care / Clinical Informatics

Health Care / Clinical Informatics Application Track

teaches students how to apply biomedical informatics principles and methods to inform and direct healthcare delivery and to address the information needs of healthcare consumers. The goal of health care/clinical informatics is to measurably improve the safety and quality of care delivery and to support the effective implementation of evidence-based practices. Students must demonstrate competency in

  • the foundational technologies and the architectures of electronic health records (EHRs) and related systems,

  • the design (using sociotechnical methods), development, evaluation, and dissemination of innovative technologies that can influence patient care delivery

  • the use of technology to provide informational support to both clinicians and healthcare consumers, and

  • evaluation and enhancement of new and existing systems through instrumentation of the care process so that process and outcome data are effectively collected and analyzed

This track dovetails with the UofU Nursing Informatics (NI) program in the College of Nursing, with many courses co-taught by faculty from both programs.

Courses

REQUIRED

BMI 6111 - Research Design I

BMI 6112 - Grant Writing

BMI 6120 - Standards in Biomedical Informatics

BMI 6010 - Foundations of Healthcare Informatics

BMI 6030 - Foundations of Bioinformatics

BMI 6018 - Introduction to Programming

BMI 6120 - Introduction to Population and Public Health

BMI 6106 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics in Biomedical Informatics

PHIL 7570 - Research Ethics

ELECTIVE

NURS 7420 - Health Promotion and Social Determinants

NURS 6661 - Project Management in Health Informatics

NURS 6772 - Quality Improvement in Healthcare

NURS 6807 - Systems Analysis and Implementation  

 

 

Practicum

Sign up for at least one practicum to gain hands-on experience and work with a team on a project. Students have the opportunity to apply to work for a semester with the ReImagineEHR team on an existing project. Must be coordinated with the team/expertise director before registering:

Affiliated Faculty

DBMI: Bruce Bray; Cardiology; Mollie Cummins, NI; Mike Dean, Pediatrics; Scott Evans, Intermountain; Guilherme Del Fiol; Jennifer Garvin; Per Gesteland, Pediatrics; Adi Gundlapalli, Internal Medicine, VA; Marta Heilbrun, Radiology; James Hellewell, Geriatrics; Ken Kawamoto; Polina Kukhareva, Victoria Tiase, Scott Narus, Intermountain; Flory Nkoy, Pediatrics; Chuck Norlin, Pediatrics; Brent James, Intermountain; Chris Maloney, Pediatrics; Stephane Meystre; Alan Morris, Intermountain; Matt Samore, Epidemiology; Kathy Sward, NI; Sid Thornton, Intermountain

Non-DBMI: Laura Heermann-Langford, Intermountain, NI; Rachel Hess, Population Health Sciences.

PhD Application Deadlines

December 1st - Initial 

Online Application

Applications now open

December 31st - Final

Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah