Master of Health Informatics

Southern Illinois University Carbondale - INTO

As healthcare fields increasingly adopt digital technologies to deliver better patient outcomes, the U.S. Bureau of Labor predicts a boom in leadership positions involving complex data analysis related to operational issues in healthcare organizations. The Master of Health Informatics (MHI) program is a non-STEM degree that focuses on the management of patient information and decision making in the healthcare industry.Coursework includes subjects like: healthcare systems, knowledge management, personnel development and oversight, electronic health records, strategic leadership and marketing, legal and ethical foundations, health promotion and evaluation, systems design, modeling, database management, security, privacy, health information exchange, and health economics.