Overview
The Health Informatics MSc program from University of South Florida addresses both technological and operational aspects of informatics with a focus on the integration and interoperability of technology. Courses provide broad technical skills as well as the organizational competencies needed for senior-level positions.
Students will learn how to:
- Describe information systems used in healthcare and explain their relationship with data, people, procedures, hardware and software.
- Manage data via relational database systems and the structured query language (SQL) and understand data warehousing, online analytical processing, data quality issues, emerging cloud databases and data mining techniques.
- Integrate electronic medical records with patient care and provide a higher quality of care through better management and availability of medical information.
- Manage the process of electronic health records acquisition and implementation.
- Develop and assess the tools used to represent medical data.
- Assess the functions, limitations, opportunities and challenges of information technology in the healthcare environment.
- Define medical language and classification systems.
- Comply with laws and regulations applicable to managing patient information.
- Communicate effectively with informatics teams and healthcare stakeholders.
- Consider the ethical issues that can arise during the delivery of healthcare with respect to health information.
- Describe clinical workflows from an e-medicine business models perspective.
- Manage healthcare projects using the PMBOK® Guide.
Career Opportunities
Upon completing the Health Informatics MSc program from University of South Florida, you will have the skills needed to enter the e-health workforce in some of the following positions if you can match your education with the necessary experience:
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Medical Information Officer
- HIM Director
- Health Informatics Director
- Health Data/Information Resource Manager
- Health Information System Application Designer
- Compliance Officer
- IT Consultant
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Management Information Systems
- Legal Aspects of Health Information Management
- Health Data Management
- e-Healthcare Ethics
- Case Studies in Health Information Management
- e-Medicine Business Models
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
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Informatics & Information Technology Health Administration Health Informatics View 774 other Masters in Informatics & Information Technology in United StatesAcademic requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- $65 non-refundable application fee
- A bachelor’s degree from a regionally-accredited university in the biological, chemical, computer or management information sciences or other appropriate field, or the equivalent bachelors and/or graduate degrees from a foreign institution.
- Minimum grade point average of 3.00 in the sciences
- Resume
- Two Letters of Recommendation
- While these are not required, GRE, MCAT or VAT standardized test scores or evidence of substantial health informatics experience can be submitted to enhance an application.
- English language proficiency
Tuition Fee
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International
28064 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 877 USD per credit during 12 months. -
National
28064 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 877 USD per credit during 12 months. -
In-State
13792 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 431 USD per credit during 12 months.
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