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We are currently undergoing a major renovation of this website and there may well be pages that are out of date.  For information about the program phone us at  (916)734-8710 or email healthinformatics@ucdavis.edu.

The explosion of medical and biological information has made it clear that innovative advances in storing, retrieving, and interpreting information are essential for health professionals and scientists.  Physicians can no longer expect to master comprehensively the information in their areas of expertise.  Instead, they must increasingly rely upon problem solving strategies and the ability to access systematically the information required for thoughtful patient care.

In 1999 UC Davis began educating health professionals in the Medical Informatics Master's degree program, which produced graduates who now have successful careers in industry, academia, public health, and other related fields.  Capitalizing on the success of this early Medical Informatics training program, the newly designed Health Informatics Program now offers a unique and comprehensive graduate training program in Health Informatics.  The 28 Health Informatics faculty are members of UC Davis' highly regarded School of Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Engineering and state-of-the-art Genome Center, creating a rich, multidisciplinary environment that parallels the diversity foound within this exciting field of study.

The program provides excellent opportunities for research projects within the university and throughout its affiliated partners.  Example research environments include:

• UC Davis Health System's Center for Virtual Care 
• UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine 
• UC Davis Health System's Center for Health and Technology, with its internationally recognized telemedicine program.

 The mission of the multidisciplinary Health Informatics Program is to develop health care systems as information environments.