All students are encouraged to discuss and explore research possibilities with their academic advisor as well as other faculty members. The Health Services Management graduate program was initiated in 1966. It is a professional, multi-disciplinary program within the School of Medicine and is affiliated with the College of Business and Public Administration. The Program in Health Informatics is designed to be trans-disciplinary in its focus. In the U.S., this will be the first program in Informatics not to reside in a professional school.
Students come from a variety of disciplines and bring their strengths of their discipline knowledge.
They work in interdisciplinary teams to better understand the knowledge unique to each discipline and how that knowledge must be translated for use by other disciplines. In developing this program, the Department of Health Informatics has worked with representatives from Texas A and M University, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, The University of Houston, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, The University of Texas Health Science Center atSan Antonio, and Texas Woman's University to improve opportunities for students entering the Health Informatics program and to create new electives available to the other schools. 7000 Fannin Ste. M.S.- Health Informatics Ph. The Biomedical and Health Informatics Graduate Program offers the highest quality academic degree program to prepare students for careers in research and teaching and in information management in health care organizations and the health care computing industry.