Program Overview

Executive Master of Health Informatics (EMHI) Program Details

The Executive Master of Health Informatics (EMHI) is designed for established mid- to senior career candidates from diverse backgrounds, including healthcare, business, and technology.

Overview

• EMHI focuses on areas of policy, management, and evaluation, and system leadership to best prepare the healthcare sector for downstream AI and health information technology-based change.
• EMHI’s flexible studies enable students to continue professional employment, sustaining career momentum, while gaining specialized health informatics knowledge.
• Start Session: Summer (May)
• Accepting Applications: September 23, 2025
• EMHI Application Deadline: January 6, 2026
• Program Options: Course-based + Health System Transformation Project
• Study Options: Modular Learning modules delivered every 3-4 weeks to facilitate flexibility for students who work full-time.

Practical Experience

• EMHI includes a 400-hour health informatics project to provide students with practical experience that can be done in the student’s workplace or within the healthcare sector as a whole.

Peers

• EMHI attracts diverse professional backgrounds across healthcare, business, and technology sectors.

Fully Online Program – Starting July 2024

The Executive Health Informatics Program is offered fully online. This new online format enables a new segment of students from across Canada, who currently are unable to access the University of Toronto’s MHI program, to attend courses and obtain the critical skills and knowledge provided by the program and desperately needed across the country.

Gain Practice Experience

Students will participate in an informatics project to apply course learning within their own professional settings or to the healthcare sector in general. Students work with the instructor and/or employer to develop a related project prior to onsite or health system execution. The project requires approximately 400 hours of applied practice.

Advance Your Knowledge

EMHI delivers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary curriculum that provides advanced knowledge in key health informatics competencies. Students will build their expertise in:

• Health and clinical systems and policy
• Health information processing
• Information and communication technologies in e-health: measurement, decision analysis, decision support, and evaluation
• Project management
• Knowledge management and change management

Finance Your Degree

At IHPME, we offer a variety of financial supports to help you succeed in our graduate programs.

• Finance Your Degree
• Financial Aid
• Funding FAQ
• Tuition & Incidental Fees
• Student Funding at IHPME
• Awards

Program Structure

• EMHI students are paired with a mentor to guide them through their experiential project, provide career guidance, and expand their network.
• Later career individuals will be paired with an IHPME Senior Fellow who has extensive and progressive experience in the healthcare sector to provide 1-on-1 coaching, mentoring, and network enhancement.
• EMHI students are expected to come to Toronto twice for a residential component to accommodate courses which are better taught in-person.
• The residential component is held in February of each year to synergize with the annual Future of Health Leadership, Informatics, and Policy (FHLIP) conference, which enables networking with multiple cohorts, presentation of EMHI projects, and networking with policy players in Ontario.
• Students are expected to submit their project work to the FHLIP conference. Papers are peer-reviewed, and if accepted, are published in a conference proceedings which is indexed in Medline. Students get the opportunity to network with key policy leaders, stakeholders, and patients in an intimate setting to advance their project work.