Healthcare Informatics
The Healthcare Informatics certificate is a post-secondary non-degree award designed to build skills in the rapidly emerging field of healthcare informatics. This program focuses on understanding healthcare data systems with an emphasis on process and data, user-center design thinking and statistics, and predictive analytics. The topics include understanding healthcare data, workflow quality, change management, system operations, and user-centered design principles. This program also covers project management, process improvement, and healthcare training approaches. This program emphasizes current healthcare business norms and trends. The content focuses on building skills that are used by informaticists working for healthcare organizations. The focus of writing for the assignments are based on technical and business writing. Students will develop the skills to be effective in healthcare organizations. This one-year program is for students that already have a Bachelor's degree. This is for current professionals that want to transition to the field of informatics.