The Executive Master of Health Informatics (EMHI) is designed for established mid- to senior career candidates from diverse backgrounds, including healthcare, business and technology.
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 enables 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.
The 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. The new mode of delivery provides students with exposure to a broader range of use cases and architectures from across Canada. EMHI students will be able to interact with faculty and colleagues, enabling cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches to the practice of informatics.
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.
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.
Graduate Administrator
Zoe Downie-Ross
Phone Number: (416) 946-3486
Email Address: ihpme.grad.admin@utoronto.ca
Coordinates student records, graduate funding, and student-related awards.
Graduate Assistant
Tianqi Liu
Phone Number: 416-946-4100
Email Address: ihpme.grad.assist@utoronto.ca
Coordinates various graduate initiatives including defences, student events, and graduation.
Graduate Placements
Christina Lopez
Phone Number: (416) 978-1108
Email Address: ihpme.placements@utoronto.ca
Coordinates details involving student placement and experiential learning