Curriculum & Course Development
Major results in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences where the health informatics program (within the MS Health and Rehabilitation Science degree) is offered.
- Creation of a Security and Privacy track in the MS HRS program. (Attached PDF has the figure detailing the track). Figure 1 below shows the curriculum for the Security and Privacy track.
- SHRS has created a new program in Health Informatics (MSHI) - which will include a graduate certificate in “Health Information Cybersecurity”
- Fully online version of the MS HI program including the SAHI track will be offered starting Spring 2020.
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Several courses were enhanced. These include the following courses:
HRS 2432 Telemedicine course
HRS 2425 Data Analytics and its applications in Genomics
HRS 2903 Issues in the Health Systems
Figure 1: The SAHI track in MS HI
Major Milestones in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems (DINS) at the School of School of Computing and Information
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Developed the Health Informatics focus in MS Information Science (MSIS) specialization in Security Assured Information Systems (SAIS). While creating SAIS-SAHI sub-focus, the PIs were also able to create SAIS with sub-focus in Big Data Analytics and Database and Web Systems tracks. The course work is as shown in the table below.
MSIS SAIS – HEALTH INFORMATICS TRACK – 36 CREDITSINFSCI 2500 is a pre-requisite for the Track. If not waived during the admissions review, it is a required course, but the credits will not count towards graduation.
Required Courses:- HRS 2421 Intro Health Information Systems
- HRS 2490 Electronic Health Records
- INFSCI 2170 Cryptography
- INFSCI 2150 Information Security and Privacy
- INFSCI 2591 Algorithm Design
- INFSCI 2710 Database Management
- TELCOM 2821 Network Security Special Topics in Secure Health IT
- INFSCI 2620 Developing Secure Systems
- INFSCI 2731 Security in E-Commerce
- INFSCI 2625 Cybersecurity and Privacy Regulation
- INFSCI 2629 Capstone in Security
- INFSCI 2621 Security Management and Computer Forensics
SAIS – BIG DATA TRACK – 36 CREDITSRequired Courses:- INFSCI 2170 Cryptography
- INFSCI 2160 Data Mining
- INFSCI 2150 Intro to Security and Privacy
- INFSCI 2591 Algorithm Design
- INFSCI 2710 Database Management
- INFSCI 2725 Data Analytics
- INFSCI 2711 or IS 2711
- TELCOM 2821 Network Security
- INFSCI 2625 Cybersecurity & Privacy Regulation
- INFSCI 2410 Intro to Neural Networks
- INFSCI 2415 Information Visualization
- INFSCI 2430 Social Computing
- INFSCI 2480 Adaptive Information Systems
- INFSCI 2750 Cloud Computing
- INFSCI 2620 Developing Secure Systems
- INFSCI 2621 Security Management and Computer Forensics
- INFSCI 2629 Capstone in Security
- TELCOM 2825 Information Systems and Network Infrastructure Protection
SAIS – DATABASE AND WEB SYSTEMS TRACK – 36 CREDITSRequired Courses:- INFSCI 2170 Cryptography
- INFSCI 2150 Information Security and Privacy
- INFSCI 2470 Interactive System Design
- INFSCI 2300 or IS 2350
- INFSCI 2591 Algorithm Design
- INFSCI 2710 Database Management
- INFSCI 2510 Information Systems Analysis and Design
- INFSCI 2560 Web Technologies and Standards
- INFSCI 2739 Web Services and Distributed Computing
- TELCOM 2821 Network Security
- INFSCI 2621 Security Management and Computer Forensics
- INFSCI 2711 Advanced Topics in Database Management
- INFSCI 2730 E-Business
- INFSCI 2731 Security in E-Commerce
- 5-year Fast-track BS-X/MSIS program: We have recently created a 5-year program where BS-X could be BS Information Science (BS-IS) or BS in Computer Science (BS-CS). That is, undergraduate students pursuing BSIS or BSCS can opt to get both BSIS (or BSCS) and MSIS degrees within 5 years. Towards this, students can use upto 15 graduate credits to fulfill the undergraduate degree credit requirements. And the remaining 21 credits of the MSIS requirements (out of total 36 credits required) are completed in the 5th year. The school has approved this program and we are currently waiting for final University level approval. We expect it to be available to students starting Fall 2019 or Spring 2020.
- Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS). Graduate Certificate of advanced studies in SAIS with sub-focus as in table above is available students with an undergraduate degree in IS/CS related fields. CAS requires 15 credits of courses that includes Information Security and Privacy and Network Security as core courses and three elective security/privacy courses. For more information: here. In addition to this, the PIs from SCI also contributed to the development of the multidisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity, Policy, and Law from three schools at Pitt (SCI, School of Law, and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs) – this certificate is offered through the newly established Professional Institute at SCI (for more info: here). The PIs from SCI and SHRS are currently working with the director pf Professional Institute to create a graduate certificate in Cybersecurity in Healthcare – this is expected to be made online by next year.
- BS in Cybersecurity & Privacy: The PIs are leading efforts to create a new undergraduate degree program in Cybersecurity and Privacy at the School of Computing and Information. The proposal is being discussed and refined for consideration at the school currently. If successful, it will be a 4-year program within SCI. While this was not explicitly part of the project proposal, this is expanded version of the proposed work related to enhancing BS IS specialization with healthcare content.
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Development of new course modules or new courses: The course development included new courses with healthcare S&P content; significant redesigning of some courses; offering of Doctoral Seminar courses focused on Healthcare S&P; and incorporating healthcare S&P content in MSIS and BSIS courses.
Courses that were enhanced with healthcare content (1-3 weeks of content)- INFSCI 1074 Computer Security
- INFSCI 2150 Information Security and Privacy
- INFSCI 2620 Developing Security Systems
- INFSCI 2621 Security Management and Computer Forensics
- INFSCI 2750 Cloud Computing
- INFSCI 2529 Machine Learning
- INFSCI 2731 Security in E-Business
- TELCOM 2825 Information Systems and Network Infrastructure Protection
- TELCOM 2931 Special Topics – Internet of Things
- TELCOM 2829 Advanced Cryptography
Doctoral courses/ new/redesigned courses to focus on Healthcare security & privacy- INFSCI 3350 Doctoral Seminar on Security and Privacy Assured Health Informatics (Joshi)
- TELCOM 3350 Doctoral Seminar on Information Privacy (included Heatlhcare privacy) (Palanisamy)
- TELCOM 3350 Doctoral Seminar on IoT with coverage of the medical IoT devices) (Krishnamurthy + Tipper)
New Courses (includes one significantly redesigned course- INFSCI 2955 Special Topics: Security Assured Health Informatics (a formal name will be created later)
- TELCOM 2955 Special Topics: Internet of Things (follow up from Doctoral Seminar mentioned above)
- INFSCI 2731 Security in E-Commerce (redesigned to include e-Health security; blockchain for e-commerce and healthcare)
- Labs Development: Our initial proposal was to develop 12 labs that will be used in different courses. We have created 14 labs that are related to healthcare security & privacy. These labs are listed at: Labs. We have modified the proposed labs to address more current topics such as Blockchain for healthcare, secure mobile health applications (including cloud computing), Differential privacy and application of Machine learning for healthcare applications.
- Resources pages: The SAHI website includes a Resources page that collects the links to various researchers useful for the researchers and practitioners interested in Security and Privacy issues in Healthcare systems/applications. Please visit: Resources.
- Research publication: The SAHI team including the PhD students supported have actively conducted or conducting research on SAHI topics. Some of these work are outcomes of the doctoral seminars or course modules focused on SAHI topics. The research publications are listed in “Publications” page of this site.