Health Informatics MHI
The Health Informatics program prepares students to implement and utilize information technology to support any healthcare organization. Our students are guided by a philosophy of inquiry, insight, and innovation. Students will be challenged to think boldly and to seek out and answer difficult questions using healthcare data. The learning environment will prepare students for the challenges of a professional career in a healthcare setting. The program will help students to develop the competencies and acquire the practical tools to succeed in today’s digital healthcare environment.
The Master of Health Informatics (MHI) is an innovative 33 credit hour applied graduate degree program that addresses the intersection of healthcare and information technology to develop efficient systems and processes. Students are challenged to analyze health data across the continuum of healthcare delivery to improve patient care and advance individual and population health outcomes. The MSHI is designed for physicians, nurses, therapists, and information technology and health information technology professionals. The degree is also well suited for individuals with no prior healthcare or information technology experience. The MHI program offers the ability for students to gain applied experience with clinical information technology systems. Students will gain over 50 hours of hands-on experience using clinical grade informatics technology in an educational setting.
MHI Goal 1: Using appropriate technology and methods, students will communicate effectively through written and oral modes of expression across academic, professional, and social contexts.
MHI Goal 2: Students will think critically and construct reasoned arguments to support their positions using skills appropriate to the context, such as deductive reasoning, scientific inquiry, quantitative reasoning, aesthetic judgment, or critical examination of form, style, content, and meaning. Students will learn the skills to make decisions regarding delivery of healthcare and selection of IT in clinical settings.
MHI Goal 3: Students will assess and respond to ethical and social justice issues informed by Ignatian values and be able to generate scholarships that embodies free, open inquiry, provokes imaginative thinking and commitment to lifelong learning, along with insistence upon ethical decision-making and care and concern for others.
MHI Goal 4: Programming & Technical skills: Students will be able to design and implement various health informatics methodologies correctly in a range of health care business applications.
MHI Goal 5: Stakeholder Value/Functional: Students will be able to demonstrate a conceptual and intuitive understanding of the basic terminology, strategies, and usage of IT as a key component in the delivery of patient care in a simulated setting.
MHI Goal 6: Students demonstrate an ability to lead in team situations.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| HAD 559 | Health Policy | 3 |
| MHI 550 | Research Methods | 3 |
| MHI 560 | Health Informatics | 3 |
| MHI 561 | Digital and Connected Health | 3 |
| MHI 562 | Database for Health Care | 3 |
| or DSS 625 | Fund of Database Mgmt Systems | |
| MHI 563 | Data Analysis for Health Care | 3 |
| MHI 564 | Privacy&Security: Health Care | 3 |
| MHI 565 | Health Data Standards | 3 |
| MHI 700 | Health Informatics Capstone | 3 |
| Choose two of the following: | 6 | |
| Computing Essentials | ||
| Info Govern, Risk & Compliance | ||
| Database Mgmt Theory & Pract | ||
| Introduction to Data Mining | ||
| Data Visual & Perf Analyt | ||
| Predictive Analytics | ||
| Health Administration | ||
| Health Care Strat Plan & Mktg | ||
| Special Topics in MHI | ||
| Mgt of Healthcare Org | ||
| Advanced Database Concepts | ||
| Total Hours | 33 | |