Program Overview

Health Informatics (MS) Online

The master's degree program in Health Informatics (MS) Online is designed to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to implement and support information technology solutions for health sector organizations. Graduates will obtain technical knowledge and management skills for the design and support of IT systems and will develop a deep understanding of health IT processes to support health care delivery management.

Program Requirements

• Introductory Courses: 0-8 quarter hours
• Degree Requirements: 48 quarter hours
• Total Hours Required: 48-56 quarter hours

Learning Outcomes

• Identify and analyze elements of a sociotechnical health system.
• Define and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of a health informatics technology.
• Accurately identify and analyze elements of the U.S. health care financial system.
• Conduct a systems analysis for a healthcare problem.
• Identify errors that affect patient safety and develop solutions to promote safer systems.
• Identify features of a functioning health information exchange.

Degree Requirements

Course Requirements

No Introductory Course may be substituted for any other course at any level.

Introductory Courses

Course List:

• IT 403: Statistics and Data Analysis (4 quarter hours)
• CSC 401: Introduction to Programming (4 quarter hours)

Introductory courses may be waived for any of the following conditions:

• The student has the appropriate course work to satisfy an Introductory Course.
• The student has appropriate and verified professional experience to satisfy an Introductory Course.
• If an exam is available, the student passes a Graduate Assessment Examination (GAE) in the Introductory Course area.

Foundation Courses

Course List:

• DSC 510: Health Data Science (4 quarter hours)
• HIT 421: Introduction to Health Informatics (4 quarter hours)
• HIT 422: Healthcare Systems & Data (4 quarter hours)
• HIT 423: Digital Health (4 quarter hours)
• IS 451: Database Design for Information Systems (4 quarter hours)
• MGT 559: Health Sector Management (4 quarter hours)

Major Elective Courses

Students must take 24 credit hours of Major Elective courses selected from the list of selected areas below. Students must choose at least one elective course in each of the three groups: Databases and Systems, Analytics, and Innovations in Healthcare, for a total of 12 credit hours; the remaining 12 credit hours can be chosen from any group.

Databases and Systems

Course List:

• DSC 450: Database Processing for Large-Scale Analytics
• CSEC 440: Information Security Management
• HIT 430: Electronic Health Records
• IS 421: Systems Analysis and Design

Analytics

Course List:

• DSC 423: Data Analysis and Regression
• DSC 441: Fundamentals of Data Science
• DSC 465: Data Visualization
• DSC 430: Python Programming
• DSC 445: Machine Learning I (formerly DSC 540)

Innovations in Healthcare

Course List:

• HIT 451: Accounting and Financial Management in Healthcare
• HIT 590: Topics in Health Informatics
• HCI 440: Introduction to User-Centered Design
• HTHC 515: Intro to Health Communication
• HIT 575: AI Health Entrepreneurship
• HIT 535: Mobile Health (mHealth)
• HIT 540: Robots in Healthcare
• HIT 517: Public Health Informatics

Practicum Courses

Course List:

• CSC 599: Independent Study 1 (2 credit hours per quarter, taken in two consecutive quarters)
• CSC 697: Graduate Internship

Degree Requirements

Students in this degree program must meet the following requirements:

• Complete a minimum of 48 graduate credit hours in addition to any required introductory courses of the designated degree program.
• Complete all graduate courses and requirements listed in the designated degree program.
• Earn a grade of C- or better in all courses of the designated degree program.
• Maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher.
• Students pursuing a second (or more) graduate degree may not double count or retake any course that applied toward the completion of a prior graduate degree. If a required course in the second degree was already completed and applied toward a previous degree, the student must meet with a faculty advisor to discuss a new course to be completed and substituted in the new degree. This rule also applies to cross-listed courses, which are considered to be the same course but offered under different subjects.
• Students pursuing a second master's degree must complete a minimum of 48 graduate credit hours beyond their first designated degree program in addition to any required introductory courses in their second designated degree program.

Students with a GPA of 3.9 or higher will graduate with distinction.