Courses & Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements

To earn the University of Washington Master of Health Informatics & Health Information Management, you must successfully complete 18 required courses, including a capstone project, for a total of 54 credits.

Course Sequence for the 2021–2022 Cohort

Year One

Autumn 2021

HIHIM 508: Health Information Systems & Leadership (3)
HIHIM 509: Introduction to Health Informatics (3)
HSMGMT 510: Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management (3)

Winter 2022

HIHIM 510: Enterprise Systems & Electronic Health Records (3)
HIHIM 520: Law, Policy & Ethics in Health Information (3)
HIHIM 535: Clinical Vocabularies & Terminologies (3)

Spring 2022

HIHIM 524:Health Data Analytics (3)
HIHIM 530: Confidentiality, Privacy & Security of Health Information (HI) in an e-Environment (3)
HIHIM 598: Project Management (3)

Summer 2022

HIHIM 525: Health Care Databases & Applications (3)
HIHIM 550: Health Care Information Governance (3)
HSMGMT 501: Epidemiology/Critical Evidence Appraisal (3)

Total credits 2021–22: 36

Year Two

Autumn 2022

HIHIM 540: Consumer Health Informatics (3)
HIHIM 552: Health Care Business Intelligence (3)
HSMGMT 505: Managing Health Care Organizations (3)

Winter 2023

HIHIM 556: Health Care Quality & Technology (3)
HIHIM 599: Capstone Project (3)
HSMGMT 562: Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations (3)

Total credits 2022–23: 18

Note: Course information is subject to change.