Health Informatics
Description
Take healthcare into the future with a Health Informatics certificate
Looking to get into the rapidly expanding health informatics industry? The Certificate in Health Informatics offered by The Chang School can be completed online (depending on which electives you pick) – and in just a few terms – so you can manage your health informatics courses on your own schedule. We provide learners with a rich education in both health informatics basics and more specialized skills. First, you’ll master the healthcare informatics fundamentals, including healthcare interoperability, healthcare systems, and the management cycle. Then you can delve into specialties like organizational behaviour, leadership, and big data.
We have a wide variety of health informatics courses so you can follow your passion, whether it’s organizational behaviour, data analytics, project management, human-computer interfaces in healthcare, health information access and privacy, or information systems security. Our health informatics program provides simulation exercises and case studies to help learners gain as much real-world experience as possible before you graduate.
The Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems – Canada (CPHIMS-CA) credential signifies that a health informatics professional has the skills, knowledge, and abilities to perform safely and effectively in a broad range of practice settings. Gaining this certification after completing your certificate can help you get those high-paying IT roles in the booming healthcare sector.
Health informatics professionals are highly in-demand – start your career path to become one now.
Who should take this Health Informatics certificate?
- You’re a healthcare professional who wishes to formalize and expand your knowledge of industry-specific uses of information technology in order to progress in your career
- You’re a healthcare professional who wants academic training to meet the eligibility requirements to sit for the CPHIMS-CA Certification
- You’re an IT professional who’s interested in applying your technical skills within the health sector
- You’re an internationally educated professional with a background in IT or the health sector who wants to better understand Canadian healthcare and health information management, and health informatics in Canada
Admission Criteria:
Required:
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent
- With 6 Grade 12 U or M credits OR
- Mature student status with relevant work experience
- With minimum of 1 year's related professional experience in the health or information technology sectors
Admission Application
You must complete a pre-approval application and receive an approval code before registering in your certificate (it’s best to have your registration in place before you enrol in for your first course).
Certificate Requirements:
- 4 required courses
- 3 electives*
- Cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 1.67+
*If you do not have a background in health information, you should complete CHIM 303.
You should select CMHR 405 if you wish to pursue CMHR 650, as CHSM 437 does not provide a prerequisite for CMHR 650.
To graduate, you must successfully complete, within your official time span, the requirements from the year you registered in the program.
You should select CMHR 405 if you wish to pursue CMHR 650, as CHSM 437 does not provide a prerequisite for CMHR 650.
To graduate, you must successfully complete, within your official time span, the requirements from the year you registered in the program.
Required Courses
- CHIM 305 Introduction to Health Informatics
- CHIM 306 Healthcare Interoperability
- CHSM 301 The Healthcare Systems
- CHSM 305 The Management Cycle
Electives (select 3)
If you do not have a background in health information, you should complete CHIM 303.
You should select CMHR 405 if you wish to pursue CMHR 650, as CHSM 437 does not provide a prerequisite for CMHR 650.
You should select CMHR 405 if you wish to pursue CMHR 650, as CHSM 437 does not provide a prerequisite for CMHR 650.
- CHIM 301 Healthcare Information Analysis
- CHIM 303 Intro to Health Coding Classification
- CHIM 307 Human-Computer Interfaces in Healthcare
- CHIM 404 Introduction to Health Economics
- CHIM 408 Statistics for Health Services Managers
- CHSM 437 Human Resources Management in Healthcare
- CIND 119 Introduction to Big Data
- CIND 123 Data Analytics: Basic Methods
- CITM 207 Computer-Enabled Problem Solving
- CITM 301 IT Infrastructure
- CITM 820 Information Systems Security and Privacy
- CLAW 401 Information Access and Privacy Protection
- CLAW 402 Health Information Access and Privacy
- CMHR 405 Organizational Behaviour
- CMHR 523 Human Resources Management
- CMHR 640 Leadership
- CMHR 650 Management of Change
- CQMS 210 Applied Statistics for Business
- CTEC 210 Fundamentals of Project Management
Career Options
This certificate can prepare you for jobs like:
- Analytics manager
- Clinical informatics analyst
- Clinical informatics specialist
- Decision support analyst
- Health data analyst
- Health informatics analyst
- Medical informatics analyst
- Quality improvement specialist
Related Courses
- The Healthcare Systems
- The Management Cycle
- Introduction to Health Informatics
- Healthcare Interoperability
- Organizational Behaviour
- Statistics for Health Services Managers
- Introduction to Health Economics
- Health Information Access and Privacy
- Healthcare Information Analysis
- Information Systems Security and Privacy
- IT Infrastructure
Overview
- Institution: Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson)
- Program type: Certificate
- Language: English
- Program Code:
- Delivery Method: Fully Online/Distance