MSHI Healthcare Analytics Curriculum

Core Courses

Credits: 3

Introduction to Healthcare Analytics is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction of the current state of the science and practice of analytics in healthcare.

Credits: 3

This course is designed to provide a discussion of the various facets of MIS, including acquiring, storing and interpreting information of interest to the informaticist and healthcare professional.

Credits: 3

This course provides an in-depth discussion of selected legal and regulatory issues that are applicable to the management of patient information in health informatics.

Credits: 3

This course introduces data management and database technologies, including relational database systems and the structured query language (SQL).  In addition, data warehousing and more analytic databases also are introduced, along with online analytic processing (OLAP) tools to support decision making.  Data quality issues, emerging cloud databases and other special topics will round out the coverage. Finally, the course offers a brief introduction to data mining techniques.

Required Courses

Credits: 3

This course provides an in-depth discussion of selected topics of statistical analysis applicable to healthcare data. It is designed to assist graduate students in the application of traditional statistical methodologies to real life healthcare datasets.

Credits: 3

Healthcare Data Mining and Predictive Analytics is designed to introduce students to various data mining concepts and algorithms. It emphasizes on classifiers, clustering, and association analysis applicable to the distinct nature of healthcare data.

Credits: 3

This course focuses on techniques and methodologies commonly used to explore and present health data to facilitate healthcare decisions.

Credits: 3

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of health outcomes research and clinical trial design. It explores the principles and methods used to obtains quantitative evidence on the effects of interventions on the diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis of a disease.
 

Credits: 2

This course examines selected ethical considerations that are significant components of health sciences, informatics and electronic medicine and often represent important considerations to be addressed during the delivery of healthcare using e-medicine models.

Electives

*Students using financial aid benefits may be required to take 33 credit hours.

Credits: 3

Introduction to Health Informatics is designed to provide a discussion of the various facets of health informatics of interest to the healthcare professional.

Credits: 3

Healthcare Project Management is designed to provide a discussion of the various facets of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, closing, and controlling projects in healthcare environments.

Credit hours for this course may vary from 1-3. Prior approval is required.

Credits: 1

Develop, in conjunction with a faculty advisor, an individual project with the goal of completing an in-depth study of a topic directly relevant to the student’s program of study in health informatics.

Credits: 3

The health informatics program addresses both clinical informatics and health information systems informatics. The program provides an opportunity for a student to develop an internship to complement required and elective coursework to broaden technical skills, as well as the organizational competencies needed for senior-level positions. The Internship provides students with a competitive advantage to all students who are aiming for a career in Health Informatics. 

This is a 16-week course that is only offered starting Fall I, Spring I and Summer I and requires students to provide additional forms, documentation and is subject to USF’s approval. Forms must be submitted to USF a minimum of one semester (two sessions) prior to the term the student plans on enrolling. For example, a student must complete and submit forms by the start of Fall I to be considered for Spring I.

Total Courses

Curriculum and tuition are subject to change. Please contact a student services representative for the most current information.

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$104,280

Average salary of medical and health service managers in the U.S.*

*U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wages, 11-9111 Edition, Medical and Health Services Managers on the Internet; 11-3021 Edition, at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes119111.htm.

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Academic Calendar

Spring I – 2025

Application DeadlineDecember 20, 2024
Start DateJanuary 13, 2025
End DateMarch 9, 2025

Spring II – 2025

Application DeadlineFebruary 21, 2025
Start DateMarch 10, 2025
End DateMay  4, 2025

Summer I – 2025

Application DeadlineApril 18, 2025
Start DateMay 5, 2025
End DateJune 29, 2025

SUMMER II – 2025

Application DeadlineJune 13, 2025
Start DateJune 30, 2025
End DateAugust 24, 2025

FALL I – 2025

Application DeadlineAugust 8, 2025
Start DateAugust 25, 2025
End DateOctober 19, 2025

FALL II – 2025

Application DeadlineOctober 3, 2025
Start DateOctober 20, 2025
End DateDecember 14, 2025

Spring I – 2026

Application DeadlineDecember 19, 2025
Start DateJanuary 12, 2026
End DateMarch 8, 2026

Spring II – 2026

Application DeadlineFebruary 20, 2026
Start DateMarch 9, 2026
End DateMay 3, 2026

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