The Health Informatics Division has addressed the education of health professionals and technologists in the application of information science and technology to healthcare and biomedical science for over a third of a century.  Its graduates are leaders in healthcare institutions, academia, industry and government across the country. 

Health Informatics is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship and activity that applies computer, information, and cognitive sciences to enhance the delivery of healthcare, support biomedical research, and foster education of health professionals and the public.  It is at the crossroads where data, information, and knowledge meet be they focused on a gene, cell, organ, individual or group.

Health Informatics is also an applied field that effectively broadens the skills and career potential of healthcare professionals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine as well as those with strong backgrounds in computer and information sciences. The study of health informatics leads to new problem solving techniques, analytic methods, system thinking, and familiarity with technology tools that can be creatively applied to build and evaluate systems and tools that address the needs of healthcare delivery, biomedical research and education.