Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the doctorate of health informatics program are expected to meet the following student learning outcomes:

• Study and evaluate the impact of informatics concepts, systems, and implementations on human health and welfare.

• Describe the structure, roles, and capabilities of information systems in various biomedical and health care management systems.

• Demonstrate competency in health informatics by using theories and methods of data structures, algorithms, and programming.

• Review current implementations of computers in diverse clinical areas, and evaluate direct data acquisition and entry by health care professionals.

• Describe and discuss the various regulations, systems, and organizations for health information privacy, security, and confidentiality.

• Apply good practice to ensure the design, implementation, and adoption of health information technologies and systems appropriately mitigating the risk of inadvertent harm to patients and organizations.

• Exhibit professionalism in the coursework, projects, and interactions within and outside of the program.

• Demonstrate an ability to effectively articulate the context, the significance, or impact of their research findings on a research project topic suitable for presentation at a technical conference or seminar.

• Create a project proposal that is ready for submission to a grant funding agency.

• Identify a research topic in an area of specialization in the doctorate program and formulate it as a PICO structure.

• Demonstrate graduate-level critical thinking skills in performing a systematic review by carefully analyzing and interpreting research information, and by successfully supporting their literature research thesis on paper.

• Prepare the systematic review paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal using a research documentation format specified by the journal.

• Design and implement a suitable organizational-level program or decision-making system for solving a health informatics problem.

• Evaluate and report on the performance of a suitable organizational-level program or decision-making system for solving a health informatics problem with clear explanations as to its logic, syntax, and operations.

• Discuss the federal laws, regulations, and standards that govern health information privacy, confidentiality, and security.

• Upon completion of the doctoral project courses, the students will provide, as per the department formatting guidelines, a comprehensive written synthesis of the graduate project itself as well as an analysis of project outcomes, process, and recommendations for the future.