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Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics

This graduate level program provides skills and knowledge to healthcare professionals and students seeking to better understand and perform in the areas of clinical and health information systems informatics. The program is specially designed for professionals seeking to apply these competencies to the workplace. The certificate program also provides credentials and verification of competencies for professional development.

The Certificate in Health Informatics provides a point of entry to the Health Informatics Master's Program. Students enrolled in the Certificate Program can decide to apply and enter the Health Informatics Master's Program with a majority of their foundation course work already completed.

Students must have completed a bachelor's degree to qualify for the Certificate Program. The certificate program consists of 12 credits (4 courses) taken from within the foundation courses for the Masters of Science in Health Informatics. Students are required to take MHI 600 Introduction to Healthcare and MHI 601 Technical Foundations of Health Informatics then may select two courses from the remaining foundation courses in order to fulfill the certificate requirements.

Required:

• MHI 600 Introduction to Healthcare Operations
• MHI 601 Technical Foundations of Health Informatics

Select 2 courses from:

• MBI 625 Information Systems in Organizations
• MBI 635 Database Management Systems
• MBI 650 Information Technology Project Management
• MHI 650 Research Methods for Health Informatics

MHI Certificate Admission Requirements

Prospective students must hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution with an overall minimum undergraduate GPA of 2.5 and at least 3.00 on all graduate work that may apply to the certificate.

Students must meet at least one of the following admission criteria:

1. Meet the requirements for admission to the MHI program;
2. Be admitted to the MHI program;
3. Have completed a prior graduate degree;
4. Have two years' relevant professional experience following the completion of a bachelor's degree.

If certificate holders apply to the MHI program, they must meet all MHI admission criteria to be admitted.

Note: This program was approved by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on July 16, 2007.