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Health Informatics

The University of Michigan’s School of Information, home of the Master of Health Informatics program.
The University of Michigan’s School of Information, home of the Master of Health Informatics program. Photo: Jeffrey Smith/University of Michigan

Health Informatics

Health informatics strives to improve healthcare outcomes using information technology. In other words, it’s a field dedicated to fixing the health data ecosystem, thereby improving care for all patients. The top school here is the University of Michigan, whose master’s program in health informatics prioritizes understanding of health policy and information science. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the health sciences are treated as information sciences. Recent graduates of the school have ended up as data scientists and researchers at institutions like the National Cancer Center.

The top three institutions for health informatics are:

1. University of Michigan

2. Stanford University

3. Duke University

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