Health Informatics, MS: Data Analytics Specialization
- Duration 2.5 years
- Cost per Credit $757
- Credit Hours 33
Program Benefits
- 100% Online
- CAHIIM accredited
- Three starts per year - Eight-week sessions
- No application fee — now accepting applications
- Prepare for health informatics careers with skills in data analytics
Crunch the Numbers. Uncover Insights. Improve Patient Care.
Healthcare data holds keys for improving patient care — if you have the expertise to find them.
Prepare to mine data for healthcare solutions with The University of Scranton's online master's degree in Health Informatics. The optional Data Analytics specialization offers skills for careers where you connect the dots within big data to help bolster patient care across populations.
- Apply data analytics in ways that help clinicians and organizations improve population health and healthcare delivery
- Master descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics tools to qualify for in-demand data analytics jobs
- Prepare for careers where you'll analyze big data to find opportunities for making healthcare more efficient and less costly
- Learn to use data visualization programs to communicate trends and help decision-makers provide better care to patients
Data Analytics Specialization
What's buried in healthcare data? Opportunities for making patient care more efficient and less costly. Specialize in Data Analytics to begin gleaning big data for essential insights. You'll engage in an education that matches the quality of similar analytics courses but led by the expert faculty found only at The University of Scranton.
Practical Healthcare Data Analytics Skills
Modality: Fully online
There is growing interest in using data analytics to elevate patient outcomes and reduce costs.1 The University of Scranton’s faculty designed these Data Analytics courses to help you analyze complex healthcare data and find ways to streamline patient care.
Specialization Courses
BUAN 571 — Introduction to Business Analytics
Business analytics isn’t merely a supporting tool — it’s a strategic weapon in today’s competitive business environment. Engage in hands-on exercises to learn data visualization and mining, statistical and predictive modeling, and other analytics competencies.
BUAN 572 — Data Mining
Discover analytic processes for finding patterns and systematic relationships between variables in big data. Plus, learn to validate your findings while exploring data preparation, modeling, evaluation, and application.
BUAN 577 — Data Visualization
Learn how to use data visualization in storytelling and best practices that apply to healthcare careers. You will also gain hands-on experience with Tableau software, one of the top visualization programs that organizations want candidates to know when hiring for data analytics jobs.
Learn how to use data visualization in storytelling and best practices that apply to healthcare careers. You will also gain hands-on experience with Tableau software, one of the top visualization programs that organizations want candidates to know when hiring for data analytics jobs.
Qualify for Healthcare Data Analytics Careers
Prepare for a career in data analytics and advance as a healthcare leader. Pursue the online master’s degree in Health Informatics with a Data Analytics specialization.
Healthcare organizations view data analytics as central to their success. 2 As a result, hiring is rising for jobs that demand data mining, data visualization, and other analytics skills. Prepare for these roles by earning your master’s degree with a Data Analytics specialization.
Senior Information Analyst $90,860 per year 3
Health Information Managers and Directors (Master’s Educated) $106,000 per year 4
Frequently Asked Question
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Health data analytics expertise is in high demand, and with good reason. By learning to mine vast data sets and connect the dots within them, you can help organizations elevate healthcare delivery and lower costs. Select the Data Analytics specialization to master skills that help you lead health informatics teams. You will delve into these areas and beyond:
- Descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
- Data mining and visualization techniques
- Predictive modeling, optimization, and simulation
Sources:
- Big Data Analytics in Health: An Overview and Bibliometric Study of Research Activity | Health Information and Libraries Journal
- 2019 HIMSS U.S. Leadership and Workforce Survey | Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Inc.
- Senior Information Analyst Salaries | Glassdoor
- Labor Insight™ | Burning Glass Technologies