Curriculum
The Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Informatics is a 12-credit program you can complete in just over a year. All coursework is fully online with no set class times.
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What You’ll Be Able To Do
Apply information science and technology solutions to solve health informatics problems
Analyze how clinicians and patients use technology to improve the quality of care
Evaluate emerging digital health tools, including telemedicine and mobile health applications
Design and implement solutions that improve data integrity and interoperability across healthcare systems
Apply health analytics and evidence-based methods to support clinical decision-making
Interpret the relationships between health information systems and patient outcomes
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Program Structure
The certificate includes four courses (two core courses and two electives). All students choose a track, which informs their course options: either a Technology Track or a Clinical Informatics Track.
All courses are delivered online through Moodle with no set class times. You complete lectures and assignments on your own schedule as long as you meet deadlines. Plan for roughly 8 to 10 hours of coursework per week.
Apply Your Certificate to a Master’s Degree
All 12 credits from the Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Informatics count toward the Master of Science in Healthcare Informatics. If you complete the certificate, you’ll have 12 of the 39 credits required for the full degree already finished.
Two Starts per Year
You can begin your Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Informatics in the fall or the spring. We offer rolling admissions, so you can start your application now.
Advanced Certificate Courses
Technology Track
HIN 501 – Computer Applications for Healthcare Management (3)
This course presents detailed knowledge of how computers operate, how they support 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 610 – Introduction to Health Informatics (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 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 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 and 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 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 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.
Clinical Informatics Track
HIN 502 – Introduction to U.S. Health Care Organization (3)
The course introduces students to the historical development, structure, operation and future directions of the major components of the American health care delivery system. It will address the issues of access, quality, cost and assess the contributions of medical technology, research and societal values on our health care delivery system.
HIN 610 – Introduction to Health Informatics (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 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.
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; make healthcare delivery personalized, precise and efficient; and understand the various techniques used for data transfer in healthcare services.
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 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.