The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) is one of six component institutions of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Formerly known as the School of Health Information Sciences (SHIS), the School of Biomedical Informatics was founded in 1972 as the School of Allied Health Sciences. The school is the newest of the six UTHealth schools and is located in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world.