Health Information Technology, M.P.S.

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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]
Capstone Project

Elective Courses (12 credits)

Choose four from the following:

Health IT Implementation
HIT 640 - Health IT Text Processing [3]
HIT 722 - Exploration of Clinician Information Needs [3]
Health Information Exchange and Interoperability
Health Information Privacy & Security
HIT 674 - Process and Quality Improvement with Health IT [3]
HIT 723 - Public Health Informatics [3]
Patient Safety & Health IT
Human Centered Computing in Health IT
Personalized Medicine
Process & Quality Improvement with Health IT