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 - I
HIT 759 - Healthcare Informatics-II
HIT 664 - Health IT Law and Ethics
HIT 663 - Health IT Policy and Administration
HIT 750 - Data Analytics
HIT 760 - Health Informatics Capstone

Elective Courses (12 credits)

Choose four from the following:

HIT 674 - Process and Quality Improvement with Health IT
HIT 723 - Public Health Informatics
HIT 751 - Introduction to Healthcare Databases
ENMG 652 - Management, Leadership, and Communication
IS 610 - Database Program Development