Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Informatics

NY State Program Code: 34843

HEGIS Code: 0702.00

CIP Code: 51.2706 

(12 credits)

Adelphi University’s online Healthcare Informatics Certificate Program designed for self-motivated professionals who want to gain new skills and knowledge about career paths that are experiencing explosive growth and advance their current position. The program consists of two tracks that will provide the fundamentals of clinical informatics, health analytics and big data, database design, clinical research informatics, digital health and telemedicine. Each track consists of two core courses and two electives, and students can complete this 12-credit program in less than one year. Depending on their track, the graduates of this program will be able to apply information science and technology solutions to solve health informatics problems, identify strategies that contribute to effective telemedicine program development, analyze how clinicians and patients use technology to improve the quality of care and interpret the interrelationships between information and health behavior and design and develop modeling solutions for clinical decision-making.

Application Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution
• Minimum 2.75 cumulative grade point average
• Completion of a University College application form and fee
• Completed 500 word essay on reasons for applying to the program
• 2 letters of recommendation