Health informatics

Graduate certificate University of Missouri-Columbia
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The online graduate certificate in health informatics from Mizzou can help you improve the quality, safety and efficiency of health services. If you want to help lead the development, use and evaluation of information technology in health care, this may be the certificate for you.

For questions, contact Lhakpa Lama, coordinator of student recruitment and admissions, at Ldlpdp@missouri.edu or call 573-884-0698. This program is administered by the Department of Health Management and Informatics.

Quick facts

Official name

Graduate certificate in health informatics

Campus

University of Missouri-Columbia

Program type

Graduate certificate

Academic home

School of Medicine | Department of Health Management and Informatics

Delivery mode

Blended, some campus visits required

Accreditation

Higher Learning Commission

Credit hours

12

Estimated cost

$10,686.00

*This cost is for illustrative purposes only. Your hours and costs will differ, depending on your transfer hours, your course choices and your academic progress. See more about tuition and financial aid.

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Career prospects

This program has potential benefits for

  • Health care consultants
  • Health care information system designers
  • Health care managers
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
Burning Glass Technologies. 2021. Salary numbers and employment growth numbers are based on models that consider advertised job posting salary, Bureau of Labor Statistics data and other proprietary and public sources of information for multiple occupations.
13.71%
employment growth
Burning Glass Technologies. 2021. Salary numbers and employment growth numbers are based on models that consider advertised job posting salary, Bureau of Labor Statistics data and other proprietary and public sources of information for multiple occupations.
$83,000
median salary

Program structure

Delivery of this program is blended; some weekend campus visits are required.

Courses are semester-based. Students typically take one or two classes each semester and finish in just one year.

Course work includes

  • Clinical, research and administrative applications of information systems in health services delivery
  • Analysis of technical and policy issues surrounding the security of data
  • Organization, development and improvement of the infrastructure necessary to support an enterprise information system for patient care
  • Application of principles and techniques of decision support systems in health care

Delivery

Blended, some campus visits required

Calendar system

Semester-based

Typical program length

1 year

Typical course load

1 or 2 classes each semester

Accreditation

The University of Missouri is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, one of six regional institutional accreditors in the United States.

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This program is administered by the Department of Health Management and Informatics