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The Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) is a 30-credit program offered in an online asynchronous format and can be completed in as few as 24 months. This program addresses the importance of informatics in healthcare delivery, professional collaboration and team-based care. The MSHI prepares collaborative leaders to address challenges in healthcare through the application of informatics, data science, and technology. Upon successful completion of the MSHI program, graduates will be able to: - Interpret, evaluate, and judiciously act upon statutory, regulatory, and other compliance requirements to ensure ethical and equitable outcomes for patients, providers, and payers; - Identify, explain, and use data to illustrate barriers to care and support the development of a health system that reflects and adequately serves constituents; - Demonstrate data query, analysis, and display to inform complex decision-making with relevant data collected via electronic health records and other related systems; - Design, develop and implement interfaces between clinical data and key constituents in clinical and managerial settings to support patient and family-centered solutions; - Translate and interpret human interactions with and within healthcare systems by retrieving and analyzing health data, reported clinical outcomes, and patient experience data; - Collaboratively drive opportunities to expand team-based and distributed decision-making with informatics, data retrieval, critical analysis, and display; - Practice interdisciplinary and collaborative leadership in seeking and developing innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to complex challenges utilizing informatics, data science, and technology. The MSHI program, with the support of the Program Planning and Development Team, will seek professional accreditation through the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM).

Contact
Director
Pamela Charney, PhD, RDN, LDN, FAND
Director Email
pamela.charney@mcphs.edu
Location
City
Worcester
State
Massachusetts