Online Master's in Health Informatics

The demand for workers who understand the relationship between healthcare and information systems is growing rapidly. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates a 37% growth in demand for educated administrators, specialists, consultants, educators, and researchers in the healthcare industry.

Drexel University's online Master of Science in Health Informatics prepares you to utilize today’s advanced information systems to create more efficient and productive healthcare environments. This program is ideal for healthcare professionals interested in improving their organization’s use of informatics and for information technology specialists seeking careers with biomedical or health organizations.  This interdisciplinary program is housed at the College of Computing and Informatics and receives curricular support from the College of Nursing and Health Professions.

The Master of Science Degree, Health Informatics Program at the College of Computing & Informatics at Drexel University is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education.

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You will learn to:

• Articulate the ways in which data, information and knowledge are generated and used to solve healthcare problems across diverse settings, from individual patients to universal public health issues
• Develop and apply contemporary information science theories and methods toward the generation, management and sharing of biomedical data
• Implement, adapt, and validate existing informatics concepts and approaches as they relate to specific biomedical and healthcare problems
• Employ concepts and techniques from the social, behavioral, communications and organizational sciences to develop information systems that solve substantial issues in biomedical and healthcare administration
• Utilize principles from ethics, law and socio-economic policy that improve patient care
• Work collaboratively across disciplines to define, discuss, and resolve key issues in healthcare informatics

Program Features

• Drexel University is a charter member of the American Medical Informatics Association Academic Forum
• Curriculum focuses on the systems of informatics and psycho-social aspects of the healthcare industry.
• The program is offered completely online, on a full-time or part-time basis

Related Program

Those interested in pursuing a degree in health informatics may also be interested in the Certificate in Healthcare Informatics.

This program is also available as a Graduate Minor.
State restrictions may apply to some programs.