Online Master of Advanced Study in Health Informatics

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ASU’s Master of Advanced Study in Health Informatics, offered online through the Department of Biomedical Informatics, provides an innovative approach to combine information technology, computer science and knowledge management to improve health.

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ASU Online offers start dates every 7.5 weeks.
Multiple enrollment sessions throughout the year.
Required number of credits to complete this degree.

College of Health Solutions

The Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Health Informatics is designed to offer professionals working in the field of health care an opportunity to earn a master level degree on the effective use of information technology, data science, and knowledge representation to impact health and health care. Professionals in non-health fields can also enhance their skills to transition to careers in this rapidly expanding field. Core courses provide a background in clinical informatics, while electives allow one to focus in the areas of clinical workflows and modern health technology, as well as skills with data analysis. The degree prepares graduates to enhance their skills for careers in a wide range of health care settings.

Clinical informaticians work to develop novel information technology, computer science and knowledge management methodologies for disease prevention, treatment, more efficient and safer patient care delivery and knowledge access. This field requires close collaboration among clinicians, biomedical and computational scientists, knowledge management professionals, educators and health care consumers.

The MAS program is formatted to meet the needs of working professionals. It is offered entirely online and can be taken full-time or part-time. Courses are offered in condensed 7.5 week sessions. The degree plan is 30 credits including: 12 credits of Core Coursework, 15 credits of Electives, and 3 credits of Applied Project for the final culminating event.


Developing the health workforce of the future:

At the College of Health Solutions, students and faculty research solutions to global pressing health challenges while preparing the health workforce of the future.

  • In the fall 2016, the College of Health Solutions had 247 Barrett Honors scholars, 146 faculty, 5,813 students and 9 million in research expenditures.
  • Embedded partnerships in the community give students additional resources and networking opportunities including the Mayo Clinic, Barrow Neurological Institute, HonorHealth, Dignity Health, Health Care Sector Partnership and more
  • $9 million in research expenditures

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Next Start Date:

01/07/19
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BMI 598: Population Health Management and Analysis

Offers a review of the Population Health landscape as well as many of the different types of Population Health programs, both in the private and public sectors. Special emphasis will be placed on: 1) Identifying unique populations for interventions, 2) Creating programs to target those populations, and 3) Developing a practical approach to analyzing the resulting financial and clinical outcomes.

BMI 601: Fundamentals of Health Informatics

Offers an overview of the field of health informatics. Combines perspectives from medicine and computer science for use of computers and information in health care and the health sciences. Includes an overview of health information literacy and data standards. Covers specific applications and general methodology in health informatics using current topics in the field. Discusses evaluations of health systems.

BMI 603: Health Informatics Database Modeling and Applications

Thorough coverage of the foundations of database systems and their specific use and modeling in healthcare and biomedical environments. Students learn through hands-on experience with the modeling and implementation of health-related databases using the relational approach. Topics include an overview of database models and architecture, database design, SQL, XML, and data warehousing as they are applied in clinical domains. Students are encouraged to explore database-related topics of their own, choosing ones that are relevant to a bioinformatics or clinical domain.

BMI 613: Workflow Analysis & Redesign in Health Systems Engineering

Provides an overview of workflow analysis and process redesign and their use in quality improvement activities, including specification. Uses case examples to highlight key concepts and measurement concepts and covers techniques. Includes the links of systems engineering to fundamentals of decision theory, statistics and optimization. Includes discussion of current successful techniques for systems engineering. Emphasizes gathering and analysis of customer needs for the specification and documentation of required functionality early in the system's lifecycle.

BMI 616: Clinical Decision Support and Evidence-Based Medicine

Focuses on the major problems of human decision making in health care including causes of errors, decreased quality and increased costs. Explores the role of information technology, primarily through computer-based clinical decision support (CDS), to address these problems. Explores key methods used to provide CDS, the capabilities and limitations of current approaches, and the challenges for managing and updating the knowledge needed to deliver CDS in an enterprise setting. Students gain hands-on experience by conducting a systematic review and a meta-analysis and using the results to draw conclusions and formulate health policy.

BMI 618: Leadership and Change in Clinical Environments

Covers core concepts related to leadership and specific methodologies used by effective leaders, including running meetings, negotiation and conflict management. Also reviews change management as a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. Compares and contrasts various models and processes related to change management and includes case studies related to health information.

Faculty

Faculty continue to practice and engage actively with the medical community. Faculty engagement and research include:

  • Leadership within the Mayo Clinic
  • Diabetes and cardiovascular disease research
  • Health monitoring technology research
  • Big data analysis to improve patient health
  • Study of human communication through state-of-the-art cognitive, behavioral and neuroscience techniques
  • Research to understand the link between environment and policy on food security and community health

Program Summary

Total Hours:

30

Related Careers

Graduates with an ASU Online MAS in Health Informatics have career opportunities illustrated in the following list. Career examples include but are not limited to:

  • Data Scientist
  • Senior Informatics Analyst
  • Healthcare IT Project Manager
  • EHR Information System Analyst
  • Clinical Informatics Manager
  • Health Informatics Analyst
  • Clinical Analyst
  • Quality Analytics Manager

Requirements

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and the College of Health Solutions.

Applicants are eligible to apply to the program if they have earned a bachelor's or master's degree, in a related field such as biology, computer science, medicine, nursing, pharmacy or public health, from a regionally accredited institution.

Applicants must have a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative GPA (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of a student's first bachelor's degree program, or applicants must have a minimum of a 3.00 cumulative GPA (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.

All applicants must submit:

  1. Graduate admission application and application fee
  2. Official transcripts
  3. Current resume or curriculum vitae
  4. Two letters of recommendation
  5. Statement of purpose
  6. Proof of English proficiency

Additional Application Information

Applicants whose native language is not English (regardless of current residency) must provide proof of English proficiency. A TOEFL score is required for applicants whose native language is not English.

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