Master of Information Systems in Health Management

Graduates of this program are equipped to:

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the technological infrastructure needed to deploy healthcare solutions including quality of services, privacy, and security aspects.
• Assess the information technology resources needed to deploy healthcare solutions that meet the needs of the local community.
• Analyze, design, implement, and test technical solutions that include database and data communication components.
• Evaluate the performance of technical solutions to guarantee the delivery of services over time.
• Manage technical solutions given local constraints, organizational context and policies relating to health.

Applicants to the master’s programs should have a bachelor’s degree.

Applicants should check the program they are applying for in order to make sure that they have majored in one of the disciplines mentioned under “required field of study: Computer science, information systems, computer engineering. Applicants from health and medical fields with relevant work experience may also be considered.”

Applicants are required to submit a valid IELTS score of 6.5 or a TOEFL score of 79 to demonstrate their proficiency in English.

First Year – First Semester

ITPM501 – Information Technology Project Management – 3 Credit Hours
ISAD502 – Information Systems Analysis and Design – 3 Credit Hours
ISM503 – Information Systems Management – 3 Credit Hours

Second Year – First Semester

HIS601 – Healthcare Information Systems – 3 Credit Hours
ELEC601 – Elective Course I – 3 Credit Hours
ELEC602 – Elective Course II – 3 Credit Hours

Second Year – Second Semester

ELEC603 – Elective Course III – 3 Credit Hours
ELEC604 – Elective Course IV – 3 Credit Hours
ELEC605 – Elective Course V – 3 Credit Hours

Final Year / Graduation Requirement

IND700 – Industrial Project – 6 Credit Hours
RES701 – Graduate Research Seminar – Non-credit / Seminar Requirement

Elective Course Pool (Choose 5 Total Across Semesters)

Students select from courses covering topics such as:
Advanced Data Management Systems
Security Risk Analysis
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Principles of Health Informatics
Data Science Tools and Applications
Interaction Design for Healthcare
Computer and Network Security
Network Forensics
Data Warehousing
Security of Clinical Information Systems
Enterprise Systems
Decision Analysis and Decision Support Systems