Health Informatics (Master of Science)
This online Master of Science in Health Informatics is designed to fit your busy schedule. As part of our program, you will have the opportunity to delve into an innovative, technology-driven field that’s reshaping the healthcare industry. Our program helps prepare you for a meaningful career that can impact the lives of patients, healthcare providers and administrators within this growing field. Our practitioner faculty integrate real-world experiences and case studies from the field, blending theory and practice within the program’s curriculum.
Program Description
You will learn the science of evaluating, implementing and utilizing technology to manage all information related to the patient care delivery process: clinical, financial, technological and enterprise wide. It is an integrated discipline with specialty domains that include management science, management engineering principles, healthcare delivery and public health, patient safety, information science and computer technology.
Three major components comprise the health informatics discipline:
- Information Systems: focuses on such issues as information systems analysis, design, implementation, management and leadership.
- Informatics: concerned with the study of structure, function and transfer of information, socio-technical aspects of health computing and human-computer interaction.
- Information Technology: focuses on computer networks, database and systems administration, security and programming.
The informatics field also draws contributions from computer science, the clinical sciences, social and organizational influences and business practices.
Possible Career Paths
You will be prepared you for a career in managerial, analytical, consultative and executive roles working with healthcare systems and clinicians such as: computer and information research scientist, database administrator, database architect, computer and information systems manager.