Assessment of US Healthcare Informatics Education: The Current State and Comparisons across Program Types Oluwagbenga Ogungbemi, Saurabh Gupta, and Sweta Sneha
Coles Working Paper Series, SPRING21-05, March 2021
Overview Information technology plays an increasingly significant role in healthcare. Although little is known about the content and consistency of university degree courses in this area, by and large, their geographic expansion reflects the growth in interest online. This paper presents a qualitative assessment of the curricula at 30 US graduate healthcare informatics programs spanning 30 universities and four types of schools: Business, Information Systems, Public Health, and Medicine. The analysis finds seven types of degree programs focused on healthcare informatics. Schools of management focus on healthcare management; information systems programs focus on data and informatics; and schools of medicine focus on both informatics and management. While schools of public health offer the smallest set of programs, they take the broadest view of the subject, accommodating technical and management approaches. Study results clarify the similarities and differences among the programs to benefit both students and curriculum designers.
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