Residential students can earn dual degrees in Health Administration and Health Informatics in only three years. The dual degree program requires that students meet the prerequisites of both the Health Administration and Health Informatics degrees. Below is a sample plan of study. Courses common to both degrees are marked with an asterisk (*).
Example Dual MHA/MSHI Plan of Study (72 Credits)
First Fall Semester
- HMI 7410 - Introduction to the US Health Care System*
- HMI 7471 - Introduction to Accountancy & Finance for Health Care
- HMI 8460 - Administration of Health Care Organizations
- HMI 8461 - Human Resources Management
- HMI 7430 - Introduction to Health Informatics*
First Spring Semester
- HMI 8524 - Health Economics
- HMI 8544 - Managerial Epidemiology
- HMI 8573 - Decision Making for Health Care Organizations
- HMI 8550 - Health Data Analytics
First Summer Semester
- HMI 8689 - Field Experience in Health Management and Informatics
Second Fall Semester
- HMI 8470 - Strategic Planning & Marketing for Hlth Care Organizations
- HMI 8472 - Finance for Health Care Organizations
- HMI 7440 - Health Information Technology
Second Spring Semester
- HMI 8571 - Decision Support in Health Care Systems*
- HMI 8574 - Health Care Law
- HMI 8575 - Health Care Policy & Politics
- HMI 8453 - Executive Management Studies (EMS Project)
- HMI 8441 - Biomedical and Health Vocabularies and Ontologies
Third Fall Semester
- HMI 8435 - Information Security, Evaluation & Policy
- HMI 8437 - Data Warehousing & Data/Text Mining for Health Care
- HMI 8610 - Consumer Health Informatics
- HMI 8090 - Thesis Research in HMI
Third Spring Semester
- HMI 8870 - Knowledge Representation in Biology and Medicine
- HMI 8443 - Enterprise Information Architecture for Knowledge Driven Health Care Systems
- HMI 8090 - Thesis Research in HMI
