Health Information Technology, M.P.S.

Degree Requirements

The ten-course master’s degree combines courses in healthcare strategy, policy, and management with more technical courses that allow students to build the necessary interdisciplinary background to tackle and solve Health IT implementation challenges encountered in real world.

Required Core Courses (18 credits)

HIT 658 - Health Informatics -1 [3]
HIT 759 - Healthcare Informatics-II [3]
HIT 664 - Health IT Law and Ethics [3
HIT 663 - Health IT Policy and Administration [3]
HIT 750 - Data Analytics [3]
HIT 760 - Health Informatics Capstone [3]

Elective Courses (12 credits)

Choose four from the following:

HIT 640 - Health IT Text Processing [3]
HIT 722 - Exploration of Clinician Information Needs [3]
HIT 674 - Process and Quality Improvement with Health IT [3]
HIT 723 - Public Health Informatics [3]
ENMG 652 - Management, Leadership, and Communication [3]
IS 610 - Database Program Development [3]
SOCY 618 - SAS for Social Scientists [3]