Health Informatics Certificate
Overview
This certificate offers specialized training in management, analysis, and strategic use of digital health data within modern healthcare and public health ecosystems. Designed to align with rapid technological advancements and evolving workforce demands, this program teaches students how to effectively design, secure, assess, and scale electronic health information systems. Students develop the skills necessary to manage electronic health records (EHRs), integrate organizational data with government and other external data, and leverage emerging technologies to improve patient-centered care.
The HIM certificate broadens students’ administrative focus into the field of health informatics and data management while providing flexibility for students’ plan of study. The curriculum prepares graduates to successfully navigate data-intensive environments. Students learn to actively use healthcare data in a legal and ethical manner that will enhance decision making, improve outcomes, and support the continuity of care across the healthcare continuum.
Learning areas focus on:
- Regulatory federal and state health laws and policies that influence the design and security requirements for an Electronic Health Record (EHR).
- Application of ethical principles related to the development, implementation, and use of EHRs, artificial intelligence, smart health advances, and other technologies, such as patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, privacy, confidentiality, and justice.
- Database technologies and programming languages such as SQL and Java.
- Network principles, design methods, and system integration tools that exchange data in a secure manner.
- Business continuity, technical security infrastructure, data mining, virtual networks, and disaster recovery planning.
- System lifecycle analysis of healthcare software.
- The implementation and clinical utilization of health informatics systems to enhance patient quality and safety.
- Application of Health Information Exchanges, population health strategies, disease mapping, clinical artificial intelligence tools, and industry trends.
Requirements for the Health Informatics Certificate are as follows:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| HCA 620 | Health Data Management | 3 |
| HCA 621 | Legal and Regulatory Issues in Health Information Management | 3 |
| HCA 622 | Health Informatics Systems & Data Infrastructure | 3 |
| HCA 623 | Health Informatics System Application | 3 |
| Total Credits Required | 12 | |