Health Informatics, MAS

Program Overview

It provides a foundation in health informatics principles, data analytics, and knowledge representation, with electives allowing for specialization in areas like clinical informatics and population health informatics. Graduates are prepared for careers in a rapidly expanding field, including roles such as health informatics director, clinical informatics manager, and health care IT project manager.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

• Objective: Enhance careers through a flexible online program, learning to utilize information technology, knowledge representation, and data analytics to impact health and healthcare outcomes.
• Description:
• Designed for working professionals
• Options available for students to continue education on their own time
• Core courses provide a foundation in health informatics principles, health communication, health care data and databases, and healthcare leadership
• Electives offer flexibility to specialize in various areas like clinical informatics and population health informatics
• Other program areas include clinical workflow, telehealth and telemedicine, and human-computer interactions in health care
• Course topics include:
• Bioethical issues in applied biomedicine
• Clinical decision support and evidence-based medicine
• Health economics and policy
• Telemedicine
• Workflow analysis and redesign in health systems engineering

Outline:

• Structure:
• 30 credit hours including the required applied project course (BMI 593)
• 15 credit hours of required core courses:
• BMI 601 Fundamentals of Health Informatics (3)
• BMI 603 Health Informatics Database Modeling and Applications (3)
• BMI 604 Health Information Communication (3)
• BMI 614 Current Perspectives in Health Informatics (3)
• HCD 575 Health Care Transformation and Leadership (3)
• 12 credit hours of electives
• 3 credit hours of culminating experience (BMI 593 Applied Project)
• Schedule: Online with multiple enrollment sessions throughout the year
• Modules:

Careers:

• Potential Paths:
• Chief health informatics officer (medical doctorate may be required)
• Clinical application developer
• Clinical informatics manager
• Director of clinical informatics (health informatics)
• Director of health information management or health IT
• Electronic health record application specialist
• Health care informatics consultant or manager
• Health care IT project manager
• Health care or clinical informatics data analyst
• Health data resource manager or clinical data manager
• Health informatics director
• Opportunities:
• Wide range of health care settings
• Positions for professionals from fields outside health and health care
• Outcomes:
• Knowledge Representation: Learn to represent knowledge effectively in the context of health and healthcare.
• Data Analytics: Gain experience in data analytics for health and healthcare.
• Bioethics: Explore bioethical issues in applied biomedicine.
• Clinical Decision Support: Understand clinical decision support and evidence-based medicine.
• Health Economics and Policy: Learn about health economics and policy.
• Telemedicine: Gain insight into telemedicine and its applications.
• Workflow Analysis and Redesign: Learn to analyze and redesign workflows in health systems engineering.