
Master of ScienceHealthcare Informatics
The 36-credit-hour graduate program in Healthcare Informatics provides unique educational opportunities in this emerging specialty area for experienced clinicians (physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and physician assistants) and clinically oriented healthcare administrators.
Many graduate programs miss or short change perhaps the most important skill set for this new kind of practitioner: the translational, communication and interpersonal skills that make the difference between success and failure during selection, implementation and optimization of healthcare IT systems.
What makes our program unique is familiarization with critical skills in change management, knowledge management, project management, organizational psychology, generational differences, human-machine interfaces and optimization tools such as Lean and Agile.
Today’s multi-institution healthcare delivery systems and even larger stand-alone hospitals employ clinician ‘Champions’ to assist with the implementation of health-related information technology projects such as electronic medical records and meaningful use. Commonly, preparation for this role is simply familiarization with the operation of the system being installed. This does not solve problems such as resistance to change and designs for the optimization of dashboards. A full set of change management skills adds significant value to employing either Informaticists or Champions both during and after initial deployments of new systems or upgrades and optimization of present systems.
Program Goals
The M.S. in Healthcare Informatics at HU addresses the need for healthcare informaticists who require in-depth knowledge in selected informatics specialty areas and prepares students to:
- Interact effectively with analytics specialists to define priority subject areas, evaluate data sources and understand the strengths and weaknesses of analytics results;
- Communicate new knowledge and insights to senior management decision-makers; and
- Facilitate implementation of management’s decisions.
Program Lead

Michael L. Seavers, Ph.D., MBA, MHA, MSCS Healthcare Informatics Program Lead
Full Time Faculty
Glenn Mitchell, MD, MPH, CPE, FACEP
Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness
Executive Director and Professor of Nursing
Assistant Professor of Geospatial Technology & Director HU Geospatial Technology Center
Michael L. Seavers, Ph.D., MBA, MHA, MSCS
Healthcare Informatics Program Lead
Corporate Faculty
Program Courses
This program requires a total of 36 semester hours: 1) 15 semester hours from the core courses listed below, 2) 6 semester hours of experiential courses, and 3) 15 semester hours of Individualized Concentration courses. The semester hour value of each course appears in parentheses ( ).

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