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Graduate Certificate in Clinical Informatics

Electronic medical records, digital imaging and sophisticated diagnostic systems are changing how we provide patient-centered care. Healthcare professionals who can effectively utilize these emerging technologies are invaluable. The Graduate Certificate in Clinical Informatics is designed to provide practicing healthcare professionals the education and training necessary to excel in the 21^st century.

Certificate Program Requirements

Applications must be credentialed as a physician, a nurse, or other healthcare professional and hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year collegiate institution. Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours within three years. Fifteen credit hours may be taken through distance education. The curriculum includes two core courses, three specialization courses and a practicum. Courses include:

Core courses (6 cr.)

INFO I535: Clinical Information Systems
INFO I581: Health Informatics Standards and Terminology

Specialization courses (9 cr. - select three of the following)

INFO I505: Informatics Project Management
INFO I512: Scientific and Clinical Data Management
INFO I530: Foundations of Health Informatics
INFO I578: Data Analysis
NURS I635: Consumer Health Informatics
INFO I641: Business of Health Informatics
INFO I643: Natural Language Processing
INFO I667: Seminar in Health Informatics

Clinical Informatics Practicum - Required (3 cr.)

A maximum of three credits for equivalent courses from other programs may transfer.

Degree Requirements

To receive the Master of Science in Health Informatics, students must complete 36 credit hours of prescribed courses. In addition to core courses, students choose, in consultation with advisors, a set of concentration electives. Examples of concentration areas include 1) knowledge-based health care information, 2) health services informatics, and 3) clinical databases.

Knowledge-based health care information focuses on the storage, organization, evaluation, and dissemination of health and medical knowledge (e.g., textbooks, journals, other media, and information) to support evidence-based practice and patient education. End-users of knowledge-based health care information include clinicians, patients, health educators, and health planners.

Health services informatics focuses on information management in health care systems and addresses such diverse needs as patient flow, resource allocation, billing, and compiling and reporting of data. This involves developing information systems for processing and storing clinical data, complying with medical documentation requirements of accrediting and governmental agencies, and setting health information policies.

Clinical databases focuses on the storage of medical data and linkage of electronic systems. Study in this concentration is based on an electronic medical record system, which includes existing standards and coding, links between health-related databases, and data extraction for clinical care and management. Research is oriented to using such databases to learn more about disease and health maintenance (e.g., clinical epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, public health informatics, and nursing informatics).

Prerequisites

All students applying for the M.S. in Health Informatics should have prerequisite courses or equivalencies in the following areas:

Anatomy, Biology, or Physiology (200 level or higher); Computer Science; Medical Terminology; Statistics

NOTE: Remediated courses are available through the School of Informatics:

Clinical Care for Health Informaticians

Web Database Concepts

To receive a Master of Science degree in Health Informatics, the applicant must be admitted as a graduate student and complete 36 credit hours including: 18 credit hours in informatics core courses, 3 credit hours in seminar courses and 9- 12 credit hours of electives. The students have the option of taking 6 credit hours towards a thesis project or 3 credit hours towards a Capstone Project.

Informatics Core Courses (18 credit hours)

INFO I501: Introduction to Informatics
INFO I511: Laboratory Information Management Systems
INFO I530: Foundations of Health Informatics
INFO I535: Clinical Information Systems
INFO I575: Informatics Research Design*
INFO I581: Health Informatics Standards and Terminology
GRAD G651: Introduction to Biostatistics

Required Seminar Courses (3 credit hours)

INFO I530: Seminar in Health Informatics I

Sample Electives (9 - 12 credit hours)

INFO I503: Social Aspects of Information Technology
INFO I505: Informatics Project Management
INFO I512: Scientific Data Management
INFO I578: Data Analysis for Clinical and Administrative Decision Making
NURS I635: Consumer Health Informatics
INFO I643: Natural Language Processing
INFO I642: Clinical Decision Systems
INFO I641: Business of Health Informatics

Thesis/Capstone Project (3 - 6 credit hours)

INFO I691: Health Informatics Project (3 cr.)
INFO I691: Thesis (6 cr.)

NOTE: *Students planning to take INFO 691 project option must take INFO 505 instead of INFO 575

Project/Thesis (6 cr.)

As a capstone experience, students will complete either a project, planned in conjunction with their advisor, or a researched-based thesis, supervised by a research advisor and a thesis committee. Core and support faculty from the participating schools will have a wide range of research interests that will provide graduate students with choices relevant to their concentration areas.

GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN HUMAN COMPUTER-INTERACTION

Graduate Certificate in Human Computer-Interaction (15 cr.)

The Informatics Graduate Certificate Program in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a 15 credit hour program that focuses on the core theory and best practice of the discipline. Admission requirements and procedures are the same as those established for the Human-Computer Interaction Program master’s degree. Specifically, students will be required to submit an application through the graduate school and receive a full review by the Informatics Graduate Admissions Committee, i.e., the review will take place for both master’s and certificate seeking applicants. Moreover, certificate seeking applicants will need to submit the same documentation and meet the same criteria as master’s seeking students, e.g., undergraduate GPA scores and references letters. GREs are not required for either, unless a student is seeking financial assistance from the school or university. See the description of the field of HCI below under the section titled: Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction.

HCI Core Courses (6 cr.)

INFO-I 557 HCI Design 1 (Old #: I541)
INFO-I 558 HCI Design 2 (Old #: I561)

Specialization Requirements (9 cr.)

INFO-I 563 Psychology of HCI
INFO-I 555 Usability and Evaluative Methods in Interactive Design (Old #: I543)
INFO-I 564 Prototyping for Interactive Systems

Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction (36 cr.)

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a branch of informatics that studies and supports the design, development, and implementation of humanly usable and socially acceptable information technologies. The goal of the field is to shape interactive tools that support human use, augment human learning, enhance communication, and lead to more acceptable technological developments at the individual and social levels. Research in HCI draws extensively on mainstream informatics concerns with cognition, communication, representation, and computation. HCI professionals seek to identify the nature and parameters of human information processing, design and test forms of representation that support human interpretation and use of information (reliably and validly assess new technologies for usability and acceptability), and determine how information technologies change working practices and social activities. [Regular job postings for HCI personnel express a desire for professionals with suitable training in design and evaluation of interactive systems, as well as applied social scientists with technological skills.]

Prerequisites

Students may be asked to complete prerequisite course work by a graduate advisor to ensure progress through the program.

Degree Requirements

To receive the master of science degree, the applicant must be admitted as a graduate student and complete 36 credits of graduate study in HCI according to the following schedule:

Core Courses (21 cr.)

INFO I501 Introduction to Informatics
INFO I557 Human Computer Interaction Design 1
INFO I558 Human Computer Interaction Design 2
INFO I555 Usability and Evaluative Methods
INFO I563 Psychology of HCI
INFO I564 Prototyping for Interactive Systems

Recommended Electives (9 cr.)

Although students are free to select those elective courses most relevant to their particular academic and professional interests, they are also encouraged to seek consultation from their graduate advisor. Prior approval for selection of elective is (in most cases) not required from the graduate advisor. The following courses have been approved for use as electives.

Informatics

I624 HCI Advanced Seminar I
I503 Social Impact of Information Tech
I505 Informatics Project Management
I510 Data Acquisition and Lab Automation
I512 Scientific Data Management
I535 Clinical Information Systems
I540 Data Mining for Security
I554 Independent Study in HCI (1-3 cr)
I590 Structured Conceptual Design
I605 Social Foundations of Informatics

Media Arts and Science

N500 Principles of Digital Arts Production
N502 Digital Media Motion & Sim. Meth
N503 Digital Media Appl Design Proc
N504 Advanced Interactive Design Appl
N506 Media Arts and Technology Project
N510 Web Database Concepts
N501 Foundations of Digital Prod

Psychology and Sociology

PSY570 Industrial Psychology - Fall, odd yr
PSY572 Organizational Psych – Spg, even yr
PSY615 Physiological Psych - Fall, even yr
PSY640 Social Psychology I - Fall, odd yr
PSY655 Cog Development - Fall, even yr
SOC–R 556 Advanced Sociological Theory I
SOC–R 557 Advanced Sociological Theory II
SOC–R 559 Intermediate Sociological Statistics
SOC–R 593 Applied Fieldwork for Sociologists
SOC–S 530 Introduction to Social Psychology

Computer Science

CSCI 503 Operating Systems
CSCI 504 Concepts in Computer Organ
CSCI 507 Object-Oriented Design & Prog
CSCI 536 Data Comm. & Computer Netw
CSCI 537 Intro to Distributed Computing
CSCI 541 Database Systems
CSCI 550 Computer Graphics
CSCI 552 Advanced Graphics and Visualization
CSCI 565 Programming Language

Design

HER–V501 Design Thinking (1.5 cr.)
HER–V502 Human Factors in Design (1.5 cr.)
HER–R511 Visual Research (3 CR)

Communication

COMM-C 500 Advanced Comm Theory
COMM–C 531 Media Theory and Criticism
COMM–C 592 Advanced Health Communication
COMM–C 620 Computer-Mediated Communication

Geography and Others

GEOG–G 536 Advanced Remote Sensing
GEOG–G 537 Computer Cartography and Graphics
GEOG–G 538 Intro to Geographic Information Systems
GEOG–G 539 Advanced Geographic Information Systems
ANTH 501 Fundamentals of Applied Anthropology
ED 531 Computers in Education
SLIS-S 532 INFO Architecture for the Web

Research Methods Courses

ANTH-E404 Field Meth in Ethnography
COM 501 Qualitative Research
COM 502 Applied Qualitative Research Methods
EDU 520 Strategies for Educational Inquiry
EDU 611 Qualitative Inquiry in Education
NURS-L 650 Data Ana for Clinical & Admin Decis-Making
NURS-R 612 Interpretive Data Analysis (2 Cr.), Summer I-II
PSY 600 Statistical Inference (Fall Even Yr)
PSY 601 Experimental Design (Spg Even Yr)
PSY 608 Measurement Theory and Interpret Data
PSY 640 Survey of Social Psychology I
PSY 655 Cognitive Development (Fall Even Yr)
PSY-I 643 Field Methods & Exper
SOC-R 551 Quantitative Methods – Sociology
SOC-R 551 Quantitative Methods Sociology
SOC-R 559 Intermediate Soc Statistics
STAT 511 Statistical Methods 1
STAT 512 Applied Regression Analysis
STAT 516 Basic Probability Appl
STAT 519 Intro to Probability
STAT 521 Statistical Computing
STAT-522 Sampling and Survey Techniques
STAT 524 Applied Multivariate Analysis
STAT 525 Intermediate Stat Methodology
STAT 529 Applied Dec Theory and Bayesian Stat
STAT 619 Probability Theory

HCI Final Project (6 cr.)

Required Course Titles

I680 HCI Professional Practice 1 (offered only in the fall semester) (6 cr.)
I681 HCI Professional Practice 2 (offered only in the spring semester) (6 cr.)

Requirement for all HCI Students

All MS HCI students must complete the final project, with includes two courses: I680 HCI Professional Practice 1 (fall) and I681HCI Professional Practice 2 (spring). Students will register for each course, which includes a formally scheduled class time. Students will work on one final project that extends throughout the two courses, i.e., both fall and spring semesters. Students will receive an official grade at the conclusion of each course, i.e., both fall and spring. Students are encouraged to take on a project that can be realistically finished by the time they complete both courses. Incompletes are NOT be permitted. Students taking the final project option are not required to take I575 (Informatics Research Design), which is reserved primarily for HCI Master’s Thesis students and Ph.D. students. However, project students may take I575 as an Elective.

HCI Final Project (6 cr.) (Optional)