Informatics Training Program at Duke University

The Duke Center for Health Informatics is a multidisciplinary training and research organization dedicated to educating the next generation of health informaticists. Under the leadership of Dr. W. Ed Hammond, the center has developed a ground breaking curriculum that focuses on the aggregation, analysis, and use of health data to improve human health, both at Duke and across the globe. The Center is distinguished by a strong history in applied health and research informatics, a mission and vision of improving human health, a tight integration with Duke Health System operations and research programs, and an interdisciplinary curriculum and training environment.

Programs

Master’s of Science in Nursing-Informatics Specialty
Master of Management in Clinical Informatics
PhD in Nursing - Informatics Specialty
Doctor of Nursing Practice - Informatics Specialty

Degree and Certificate Programs

The Master’s of Science in Nursing, open to nurses, is a two-year distance education program. The Certificate program, also distance education, is a one year program that admits candidates with (1) a bachelor’s degree or higher in a healthcare field or (2) a bachelor’s degree or higher and at least one year of relevant experience in a healthcare setting.

The Master of Management in Clinical Informatics is a one year, week-end program with classes taught on campus; this program combines business and informatics classes that prepare students for leadership in information intense healthcare fields.

The Duke School of Nursing offers both PhD and DNP programs with a concentration in informatics. Students must have a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

Students benefit from faculty and staff with informatics expertise and research-related fields at Duke that include:

• Clinical Decision Support and Knowledge Management
• Clinical Research Informatics
• Computerized Patient Safety Systems
• Genomic and Personalized Medicine
• Geospatial Informatics
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Imaging Informatics
• Patient Centered Care
• Population Health
• Secondary Data Use to Improve Care and Care Outcomes
• Data Quality
• Standards

Short Course

The Duke Health Informatics Short Course is designed for organizations and companies that want to provide a comprehensive overview of Health Informatics to their employees. Courses are tailored to the organization's needs, and provide 3-7 days of a high-level view of informatics and an opportunity for "deep dive" content.

Taught by leading informaticists from Duke’s Health System and Research Institutes, attendees will benefit from Duke’s forty-year history of achievement in applied health and research informatics, a mission and vision of improving human health, a tight integration with health system operations and research programs, and an interdisciplinary curriculum and training environment. The target audience for the Short Course includes:

• People from all backgrounds who want to learn more about the field of Health Informatics. Prior knowledge about health informatics is not required.
• Individuals in healthcare who have general knowledge about informatics but would like to deepen their expertise.
• Individuals who are interested in learning how to apply and incorporate informatics solutions.

Key focus areas include but not limited to:

• An overview of health informatics methods and topics.
• Principles behind the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), information and imaging systems in today’s healthcare settings.
• Applications of clinical data warehouse analytics and approaches for secondary data use such as registries, clinical research, Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), health quality improvement, population, and public health.
• Leading methods for bridging research and patient care and leveraging informatics to expedite clinical and translational research
• Understanding the basic principles for advancing genomic and personalized medicine.
• Hands on projects using case studies will be conducted to apply knowledge obtained during the course.

For more information contact:
healthinformatics@duke.edu