Curriculum
The Master of Science in Healthcare Informatics is a 39-credit program that most students complete over two years of part-time study. All coursework is online, though the practicum may require in-person hours at a site near you.
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What You’ll Be Able To Do
Apply information science and technology solutions to solve health informatics problems
Design and implement systems that improve interoperability, data integrity and patient outcomes
Analyze how clinicians and patients use technology to improve the quality of care
Apply advanced analytics and evidence-based methods to support clinical decision-making
Drive innovation in digital health, telemedicine and AI-driven care delivery
Apply ethical reasoning and regulatory knowledge to guide technology implementation
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Program Structure
The curriculum combines hands-on training in emerging health informatics and medical monitoring technologies with analytical and leadership skills, all delivered online with personalized faculty attention.
Core Courses
Core courses cover the full spectrum of health informatics including data systems and clinical decision support to privacy, security and organizational behavior. You’ll build proficiency in the technical, analytical and managerial skills that healthcare organizations are looking for.
Electives
Electives allow you to go deeper in areas aligned with your career goals, with choices that cover telemedicine, clinical research informatics, standards for clinical interoperability or health analytics.
Practicum
You’ll take the course, “Practicum in Healthcare Information Technology,” which involves 100 hours of hands-on work in a healthcare-related setting.
CAHIIM-Accredited Curriculum
The Master of Science in Healthcare Informatics is the first CAHIIM-accredited healthcare informatics master’s program in the New York City metropolitan area.
Two Starts per Year
You can begin your MS in Healthcare Informatics in the fall or the spring. We offer rolling admissions, so you can start your application now.
The Practicum Experience
The practicum is where coursework meets practice. Through seminar sessions and site visits, you’ll observe, participate in and critically analyze the roles and functions of healthcare information technology professionals across real healthcare settings. Students complete a minimum of 100 hours of practicum work.
The experience culminates in a comprehensive paper that demonstrates your ability to apply health informatics principles to real-world challenges.
The practicum can be completed in person or remotely. Faculty will work with you to identify a placement that fits your background and career goals.
Master of Science in Healthcare Informatics Courses
HIN 501 – Computer Applications for Healthcare Management (3)
This course presents detailed knowledge of how computers operate, how they support the healthcare organizations, facilitate clinical decision making and how they are integrated into healthcare operations. Students learn the basics of using Microsoft Office applications—including Word, Excel and PowerPoint—for solving specific health information problems.
HIN 502 – Introduction to U.S. Healthcare Organizations (3)
The course introduces students to the historical development, structure, operation and future directions of the major components of the American healthcare delivery system. It will address the issues of access, quality and cost, and assess the contributions of medical technology, research and societal values on our healthcare delivery system.
HIN 601 – Human Interaction, Integrity and Interoperability (3)
This course prepares students for successful integration of health information systems into healthcare practice. Healthcare providers are central to successful integration. Three domains are addressed: challenges encountered in health information system implementation; considerations for integration of health information systems; and system design in the perspective of end users.
HIN 603 – Clinical Decision Support Systems and Evidence-Based Practice (3)
This course prepares students for state-of-the-art clinical decision support systems. Four main domains are addressed: evidence-based decision making for knowledge generation; issues in representing knowledge; organizational, cultural, legal and ethical issues in designing, using and evaluating clinical decision support systems; and applications of clinical decision support systems used in healthcare.
HIN 610 – Introduction to Health Informatics and Culture of Healthcare (3)
This course will teach the fundamental concepts and knowledge in the field of health informatics. Topics covered include, but are not limited to main information technology applications, electronic health records, personal health records, data standards, health information exchange and the future of health informatics applications.
HIN 620 – Health Analytics, Big Data and Natural Language Processing (3)
This course will teach how to analyze and evaluate various aspects of health analytics and big data analytics. Topics covered include descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, translating healthcare problems as an analytics problem and the use of natural language processing to gain insights from electronic health records and other open text formats.
HIN 650 – Practicum in Healthcare Information Technology (3)
Provides seminar and practical experience in the observation, participation in and critical analysis of various roles and functions of Healthcare Information Technology professionals. Students will complete a minimum of 150 hours in practicum work during site visits.
HIN 660 – Health Information Privacy and Security, HIPAA (3)
An introductory course focused on the meaning and ramifications of health information and privacy; from the perspective of the patient, provider, employer, health-insurer, business, legal and government. Strategic emphasis will be placed on utilization of a practical framework, integrating ethical fundamentals of patient privacy, emergency preparedness and data storage and recovery.
HIN 670 – Health Management Information Systems and Organizational Behavior (3)
This course teaches management of information systems in healthcare. The student will explore the technical and organizational behaviors unique to healthcare how to improve patient care. The ethics of technology use will be explored as applied to decision making and the consequences of changes through the analysis of case studies.
HIN 694 – Business of Healthcare Informatics (3)
This course addresses the management of information systems in healthcare; using the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) model. The organizational healthcare delivery system will be explored and scrutinized, including quality through technology, legal, performance, risk and utilization. Practical context encompasses data exchange, storage, retention, destruction, indices and registries applied to decision making.
HIN 630 – Telemedicine Applications, Digital Health and m-Health (3)
This course will teach the basic knowledge necessary to understand telemedicine and mobile health applications, develop familiarity with new methods to provide clinical care, track and manage health outcomes and make healthcare delivery personalized, precise and efficient, and understand the various techniques used for data transfer in healthcare services.
HIN 641 – Standards for Clinical Interoperability in Healthcare (3)
This course will teach the fundamental concepts of multidisciplinary care planning, explore the technical principles of intra- and inter-organizational health interoperability and identify various interoperability standards in use.
HIN 680 – Database Design and Modeling for Health Informatics (3)
This course presents detailed knowledge of how computers function in a healthcare setting; specifically data modeling, Hierarchical and relational databases, systems analysis, project management, Structured Query Language (SQL), Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and data warehousing.
HIN 681 – User Experience and Research Methods for Health Informatics (3)
Students are introduced to the patient and user experience and identify the most appropriate research methods to evaluate the interactions between physical, social, cognitive and psychological human behavior and health informatics applications. Topics covered include statistical methods and analyses used to improve patient and user experience and perform data analysis.
HIN 690 – Consumer Health Informatics and Healthcare Quality Improvement (3)
Students are introduced to the fundamental concepts and knowledge in the field of consumer health informatics. This course will focus on the connections between health and information behavior models and evaluate how the internet and emerging technologies impact patients, health systems and healthcare providers.
HIN 691 – Clinical Research Informatics (3)
This course will provide the student a deep exploration, integration and application of information technology across healthcare settings. The theoretical framework for CRI uses three conceptual components: 1) collaborative research development in health informatics, 2) bioinformatics and 3) clinical research workflows.