An Urgent Need for Health Informatics Credentials
In the fast-growing, data-driven healthcare sector, medical, clinical, information technology, and other professionals are recognizing the urgent need for essential health informatics credentials. Get started with the Foundations of Health Informatics certificate.
A Fundamentals Certificate
The Foundations of Health Informatics graduate certificate provides academic training in fundamental topic areas such as security and privacy, data analysis, programming, and system analysis. The 12-credit program that can be completed in two semesters and fully online if you wish.
Earn a Master's in Health Informatics
The Foundations certificate can be stacked with the 9-credit focus-area Health Informatics certificates in Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, and Security and Privacy. Successful completion of the Foundations certificate plus two of the three focused Health Informatics certificates, below, leads to the completion of the 30-credit Michigan Tech Master's in Health Informatics.
Foundations of Health Informatics Courses
The 12-credit Foundations certificate requires four courses, which are offered in the fall and/or spring semesters as follows.
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester |
| SAT 4650 Applied Computing in Python | SAT 4650 Applied Computing in Python |
| UN 5550 Introduction to Data Science |
UN 5550 Introduction to Data Science |
| SAT 5001 Introduction to Health Informatics |
SAT 5131 Systems Analysis and Design |
| SAT 5111 Security and Privacy |
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Foundations of Health Informatics Learning Goals
Upon completion of the Foundations certificate, students will be able to:
- Prepare, code, and process data for security and privacy, data analysis, and system analysis.
- Use the data and apply appropriate methods to evaluate the results.
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