Online Degrees in Health Information Technology: Health Care Informatics

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Use data to improve the quality of health care when you earn your Bachelor of Arts in Health Informatics online from Ashford University.

Health informatics is an emerging field that combines research, statistics, and design in a health and human service context. In addition to building software, informatics encompasses the study of human, social, and organizational contexts. Learn emerging applications in health informatics. Examine the regulations that govern the storage and sharing of health data. Analyze information's role in health care delivery, education, and research. Your online courses include such topics as statistics, information systems, and telecommunications.

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Combine management and advanced technical skills in order to lead your organization's technology investments: its personnel, processes, projects, and business strategies. With courses geared to experienced IT professionals, you can study the business expertise needed to participate at the senior management level and translate technology to achieve business goals. With advanced technical training in IT processes, programming, and systems design, you can help prepare yourself to lead fellow IT/IS professionals in systems planning, integration, and management. Choosing from six specializations, you can take the opportunity to develop high-demand skills in fields such as cyber-security, health informatics, and global supply chains.

Specializations

• General
• Business Information Management
• Enterprise Information Security
• Healthcare Informatics
• IT Strategy and Governance
• Managing Global Software & Service Supply Chains
• Project Management

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With increased attention on reducing health care costs, increasing access to quality care and improving the quality of health care services, the role of health informatics is being recognized as a critical component of health care reform. Through Walden's M.S. in Health Informatics, you can gain the skills and training you need to integrate advanced digital technologies into the field of health care and use electronic data to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare services.Learn to apply health informatics to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of disease and to reduce the occurrences of medical errors.

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This online degree program focuses on developing leaders in the nursing field. This graduate degree course is based on nursing guidelines from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. The graduate degree curriculum uses nationally renowned faculty to help you acquire the tools to teach others and prepare for current and future career opportunities. The program is available to RNs with a BSN, ADN, or Diploma.

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The demand for nurse leaders in education, technology, clinical settings, and at the upper levels of management is increasing. As a professional nurse seeking to meet this growing demand, you must have access to the most current thinking and best practices. Earning a Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing can help you bolster your skills so you can help meet rapidly growing demands for better patient care, achieve greater professional recognition, create new career opportunities or improve long-term career prospects, and improve your position with regard to compensation.

Certificates:

• Nursing Education
• Nursing Leadership & Management
• Nursing Informatics

Walden University's M.S. in Nursing (MSN) is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), a national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. CCNE ensures the quality and integrity of baccalaureate and graduate education programs in preparing effective nurses. For students, accreditation signifies program innovation and continuous self-assessment. Graduates recognize that, as they seek new positions or entry into doctoral programs, accreditation is valued and may be required.

The demand for nurse leaders in education, technology, clinical settings, and at the upper levels of management is increasing. As a professional nurse seeking to meet this growing demand, you must have access to the most current thinking and best practices. Earning a Post-Master's Certificate in Nursing can help you bolster your skills so you can help meet rapidly growing demands for better patient care, achieve greater professional recognition, create new career opportunities or improve long-term career prospects, and improve your position with regard to compensation.

Certificates:

• Nursing Education
• Nursing Leadership & Management
• Nursing Informatics

Walden University's M.S. in Nursing (MSN) is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), a national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. CCNE ensures the quality and integrity of baccalaureate and graduate education programs in preparing effective nurses. For students, accreditation signifies program innovation and continuous self-assessment. Graduates recognize that, as they seek new positions or entry into doctoral programs, accreditation is valued and may be required.

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Dramatic changes in the management of patient records and other healthcare information processes have made health care IT one of the fastest growing career fields. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for health information professionals is expected to grow 20% through 2018—much faster than most other career fields.

This current and relevant degree program prepares students for success in this important and demanding field. The program equips professionals and leaders to integrate information technology into patient-care systems, with training in clinical operations, data management systems, health care system operations, project management, decision-making, and quality assessment. The curriculum provides the knowledge and skills needed to excel in a variety of roles, including automating clinical care, building new operational data systems, training health care workers in the use of computer systems, collecting and analyzing data to improve patient care, and more.

Graduates of this innovative program possess the expertise to manage and improve the delivery and usefulness of health information in today's more complex healthcare environments.

Prospective students must have completed a bachelor's degree program prior to enrolling.

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Health care informatics is a rapidly emerging discipline that offers new frontiers requiring innovative leadership.

As health care reform begins to impact all areas of the health care system, greater attention is being focused on the value of health informatics in reducing health care costs, increasing access to health care, and improving the quality of health care services. Health care informatics is quickly becoming vital to the growth and security of the United States' health care system. The integration of information technology into health care and the continuous changes in patient-care systems require professionals and leaders with training in clinical operations, data management systems, health care system operations, project management, decision making, and quality assessment.

Graduates of the Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Health Care Informatics program may perform a variety of functions for the organization, such as automating clinical care, building new operational data systems, training health care workers in the use of computer systems, collecting and analyzing data to improve patient care, etc. Depending on their areas of strength and focus, graduates may serve as project managers, project designers, researchers, systems analysts, or administrators and executives at all levels of the organization.

Graduates may work in a variety of settings, including hospitals, primary care facilities, doctor's offices, insurance companies, pharmacies, technology suppliers, consulting firms, and more. Potential employers for graduates of this program include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, clinical data exchange insurance sites, the government's Military Health System (hospitals), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, state health care organizations, and informational technology vendors.

Prospective students must have completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree program prior to enrolling.

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The Bridge to Master of Science in Nursing program is designed for Registered Nurses with a bachelor's degree in health sciences or other related fields. The program is intended to meet the needs of adult learners who already possess a bachelor's degree and an RN license who desire to pursue a graduate degree in nursing.

Courses in the bridge program are a blending of RN to BSN core courses that are considered essential requisites to graduate study. Upon completion of bridge courses from the BSN core, students enter one of five emphases offered for the Master of Science in Nursing or the Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Nursing: Nursing Leadership in Health Care Systems (Dual-Degree)