is to provide an applied graduate educational experience that prepares professionals to participate in and lead multidisciplinary teams in the development, implementation, and management of information technology solutions in health care. Our program emphasizes the applied aspect of using informatics in the health care setting. We strive to provide a practical education that prepares students to effectively participate in development, implementation, and management teams charged with producing information technology solutions that improve patient care and reduce the cost of care. It is not the goal of MIMP to comprehensively cross train individuals from one medical informatics domain for another. We will not make doctors into network engineers or database designers. Similarly, we will not prepare computer scientists or engineers for patient care. This is not our intent. Rather, our intent is to give our graduates the knowledge and skills to identify, recruit and work with expert resources needed for the successful project. Additionally, with electives, and thesis, students have the opportunity to gain additional expertise according to their individual academic and career goals. In brief, t he program is designed to meet the educational needs of two types of students:

• The health care professional seeking additional training in information management and technology.
• The non-health care professional seeking training in health information and technology.

• To provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the role of information in health care.
• To provide students with a sound basis for implementing, developing, maintaining, and managing information resources and systems in health care.
• To provide students skills in the management of health information, technology, and decision making.
• To provide students with research experience in medical informatics.