MSHI Healthcare Analytics
Program Overview
The Bisk Amplified program is meticulously designed to provide a comprehensive educational experience that caters to the diverse needs of students aiming to advance their careers. This program offers detailed course information that covers a wide array of subjects, ensuring that each participant gains in-depth knowledge and practical skills applicable to their field. The curriculum is structured to include both theoretical foundations and hands-on learning opportunities, fostering a robust understanding of the material. Courses are taught by experienced instructors who bring real-world expertise to the classroom, enhancing the learning experience and providing students with valuable insights into industry practices.
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Program Type
Masters
Program Format
Online
Instruction Format
Instructor Led
Courses
11 courses
Credit Hours
32
Next Start
01/13/2025
The MSHI Healthcare Analytics program offered through the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine can enable you to lead in the digital reorganization of the nation’s healthcare system. Deep knowledge of healthcare analytics will allow you to make effective use of the vast volume of digital data to improve healthcare operations and delivery. Healthcare analytics jobs are vital for hospitals, clinics, private practices and other organizations to ensure their computing infrastructure meets the evolving needs of its administrators, providers and patients.
Healthcare Analytics Careers
Once you complete the MSHI Healthcare Analytics degree program, you will have acquired the skills to meet the market demand for roles related to strategic planning, clinical process and quality improvement, integration, and the implementation and evaluation of clinical and administrative information systems in healthcare organizations. Graduates, with the proper education and experience, may be positioned for roles:
- Data Architect
- Clinical Data Analyst
- Chief Medical Information Officer
- Chief Population Health Manager
- Vice President of Advanced Analytics
- Data Scientist/Analytics
- Senior Data Analyst
- Healthcare Analytics Consultant
- Director of Healthcare Analytics
- Clinical Research Manager
- Director of Decision Support
- Health Data Consultant
In 2019-2020, USF Health’s MSHI program had an employment rate of 94% within one year of graduation (based on available graduate information).
$104,830
Median salary of medical and health services managers in the U.S.*
*Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Medical and Health Service Managers, at https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm.
National long-term projections may not reflect local and/or short-term economic or job conditions, and do not guarantee actual job growth. Information provided is not intended to represent a complete list of hiring companies or job titles, and degree program options do not guarantee career or salary outcomes. Students should conduct independent research for specific employment information.
IN THIS PROGRAM, STUDENTS WILL LEARN HOW TO:
- Think analytically, implement creative problem-solving and encourage organizational strategists to make data-driven decisions.
- Identify sources of healthcare data, and structure, clean and manipulate that for stakeholders.
- Manage data via relational database systems and the structured query language (SQL); understand data warehousing, online analytical processing, data quality issues, emerging cloud databases and data mining techniques.
- Comply with laws and regulations applicable to managing patient information.
- Integrate electronic medical records with patient care and provide a higher quality of care through better understanding of medical information.
- Manage the process of electronic health records (EHR) acquisition and implementation.
- Communicate effectively with informatics teams and healthcare stakeholders through various representations of healthcare data.
- Shape the collection, management, analysis, reporting and sharing of healthcare data using the analytics life cycle.
- Develop skills in data mining, data preparation, data visualization, descriptive statistics, healthcare data, predictive analytics, SAS Studio, SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Viya.
- Apply analytical thinking, creative problem-solving and organizational strategies to support data-driven decision making.
- Assess the functions, limitations, opportunities and challenges of information technology within the healthcare environment.
- Manage healthcare projects using the PMBOK® Guide.
All prospective students applying for the MS in Health Informatics, Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics, MSHI Healthcare Analytics or SAS Approved Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Analytics program must meet the following criteria for admission:
- Complete your application: $65 non-refundable application fee required
- A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university in the biological, chemical, computer or management information sciences or other acceptable field, or the equivalent bachelors and/or graduate degrees from a foreign institution* is required.
- Official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended. Any bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university (or the equivalent from a foreign institution) is required.
- Maintained a minimum overall grade point average of 3.00 out of a possible 4.00 with a minimum grade point average of 3.00 in the sciences
- Resume
- Provide two professional or academic letters of recommendation. Letters from friends and family members will not be accepted.
- Provide Statement of Purpose. Please include a short statement about why you are interested in the program and use this statement to speak about your application’s strengths and weaknesses. See Admissions Overview for more information.
- Certificates Only: Certificate Departmental Approval Form
- While these are not required, GRE, MCAT or VAT standardized test scores or evidence of substantial health informatics experience can be submitted to enhance an application.
- Healthcare analytics program candidates should understand basic statistics. Experience in data management and statistical software is preferred but not required.
*International students may be required to submit additional information, if applicable.
Curriculum & Tuition
Tuition
Cost per credit hour: $907
Total credits: 32
USF Health's Morsani College of Medicine
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