Master in Scienze dell'Informazione Sanitaria - Specializzazione in Analisi dei Dati Sanitari

Specialize in harnessing analytics, data science, and machine learning to enhance health care outcomes. You’ll take classes that delve into advanced statistics, mining health care data, health data integration, and other analytics concepts.

Competency-Focused Health Informatics Curriculum

Our expert faculty teach evidence-based courses, helping you develop competencies for careers in health informatics management, health data analytics, and beyond. You’ll learn emerging informatics concepts while engaging in a curriculum that Mason regularly updates, helping you keep pace with the innovations reshaping health care and technology. The master’s degree requires 36 credits hours, with classes offered in a flexible online format.

Health informatics students can take the following courses:

Optional Bridge Course

Prepare for the master’s program by gaining foundational math, computing, and informatics knowledge.

Health Data Integration

Learn to manipulate large databases, write SQL application programs, and understand sources of conflicts within complex health databases.

Data Mining in Health Care

Explore the practical applications of data mining in the health care industry, learning the latest tools and ways to visualize your findings.

Health Care Databases

Gain hands-on experience with designing and maintaining database queries, learn the uses of health record systems, and examine different types of database management systems.

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Mason Online refers to the online learning experiences offered that may be completed at home, while stationed abroad, or while traveling. The online courses will maintain the same academic rigor and integrity as their campus-based counterparts, providing students with an active and collaborative learning environment while offering greater flexibility to fit a student's needs.