Welcome to the School of Health Information Sciences at Houston

Located within the Texas Medical Center, the school provides a unique collaborative research and learning environment in Biomedical Informatics. The school’s mission is interdisciplinary graduate education and research, bringing together the engineering, computer and biological sciences. The educational programs lead to Certificates in Health Informatics and Public Health Informatics,  a Masters degree, or a Doctoral degree in Health Informatics. Focus areas include:  Clinical Informatics, Computational Biomedicine and Learning & Technology. Our School, and several of our faculty, are also affiliated with the University of Texas Department of Biomedical Engineering.

The school’s important work will define the future of healthcare: researchers will have better tools to advance treatments and cures; doctors will have better diagnostics and ways to access information; and patients will have better access to personalized care…anywhere…anytime. To learn how you can help, see Friends and Donors.