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Improve the Healthcare Industry With Your Master’s in Health Informatics Degree
Health informatics professionals use biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry and problem-solving. Through data analytics and artificial intelligence insights, they can drive innovations in the healthcare industry, such as making impacts in predictive medicine and tracking epidemics. The industry’s demand for evidence-based medicine, quality improvement, and patient data security and accessibility is fueling a need for well-trained health informatics professionals.
MCNY’s new master’s level health informatics program will equip you with the data analytics, healthcare IT and management skills you need to be successful in various informatics roles, including public health informatics, organizational informatics, social informatics and clinical informatics. Positively impact patient outcomes and make healthcare systems more efficient with your M.S. in Health Informatics from MCNY.
Introducing MCNY’s New MS in Health Informatics
Why consider a career in Health Informatics?
Health informatics is a blend of information science and healthcare, offering opportunities to tackle real-world challenges. With the healthcare industry generating a significant portion of the world’s data, there’s growing demand for professionals who can harness this data for meaningful insights. This field offers a chance to make a difference by improving healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, and operational efficiency while addressing privacy concerns. Plus, it’s a dynamic field at the intersection of technology and healthcare, promising continuous growth and innovation.
What do Health Informatics professionals do?
What’s driving the need for health informatics professionals?
What fields are part of Health Informatics?
What are some career areas in Health Informatics?
Health Informatics Employment Outlook
Employment of medical and health services managers is expected to grow by 32% professionals earn a median average salary estimated at $100,980 per year (bls.gov).
Job titles and career paths are diverse in the health informatics field. Following are a few broad health informatics job titles and their associated median annual salaries.
- Medical and Health Services Managers: $104,830 per year/$50.40 per hour
- Management Analysts: $95,290 per year/$45.81 per hour
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, accessed January 2024.
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Explore the Course Offerings
Become a leader in the evolution of healthcare. Learn how to work with big data to improve patient outcomes in our one-year Master of Science in Health Informatics program at MCNY.
| Purpose 1 | Purpose 2 | Purpose 3 |
|---|---|---|
| HIP 510 Introduction to Health Informatics and Health Information Systems |
HIP 620 Clinical Informatics |
HIP 730 Health Care Information Technology Project Management |
| HIP 511 The Business of Health Informatics |
HIP 621 Introduction to Data Mining and Visualization |
HIP 731 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare |
| HIP 512 Security and Privacy in Health Informatics |
HIP 622 Database Management Systems |
HIP 732 Analysis and Reporting in Healthcare |
| HIP 513 Biomedical Sciences and Health IT |
HIP 623 Leading and Managing Clinical Information Systems Projects and Change |
HIP 733 Big Data and Information Systems |
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This Degree is Practical
Employment in management occupations is projected to grow 9 percent from 2020 to 2030, about as fast as the average for all occupations, and will result in about 906,800 new jobs. Employment growth is expected to be driven by the formation of new organizations and expansion of existing ones, which should require more workers to manage these operations.
The median annual wage for management occupations was $109,760 in May 2020, which was the highest wage of all the major occupational groups.
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