75 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 E. S. Berner (ed.), Informatics Education in Healthcare, Health Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53813-2_6 Chapter 6 Undergraduate Health Informatics Education Saif Khairat and Sue S. Feldman Introduction Health Informatics Education continues to expand to encompass almost all clinical specialties and Information Technology (IT) domains. The focus on health infor- matics education has primarily been within graduate studies such as Masters, PhD, or the new Sub-Specialty in Clinical Informatics. Due to the variety in post-graduate education, graduate students and/or returning professionals have various informat- ics training opportunities. Additionally, new emerging initiatives have focused on introducing health informatics to high school students [1]. However, Health infor- matics education at the undergraduate level is not as well established. Despite graduate-level initiatives such as the Health Information Technology Scholars (TIGER) initiative, the Offce of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Workforce Development program, and others, there is still a need to provide inter-professional education at the undergraduate level [2–5]. As the feld of informatics continues to grow and healthcare becomes more complex and data driven, there is a growing need to introduce fundamental health informatics concepts to undergraduate students to enhance their knowledge base and stimulate their interest and possible pursuit of a career in health informatics. There is a critical need to develop interprofessional undergraduate Health Informatics (HI) programs that address fundamental informatics concepts and core competency knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Building a broad-based undergraduate S. Khairat (*) Carolina Health Informatics Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA e-mail: Saif@unc.edu S. S. Feldman University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA e-mail: sfeldman@uab.edu