Course Overview
The program provides the opportunity to learn from students with diverse backgrounds, including nurses, pharmacists, physicians, programmers, project managers, and analysts. You'll learn to communicate more effectively and to better understand the relationship between information technology, people, health, and the healthcare system. Professionals who understand the relationship between information technology, people, health, and the health-care system are in short supply. With Northeastern University's interdisciplinary graduate programs in health informatics, you gain the knowledge and skills needed to use information technology to improve health-care delivery and outcomes and to advance your career in this growing field. Northeastern's health informatics master's degree program provides: The expertise of both the College of Computer and Information Science and Bouv College of Health Sciences, Faculty who are senior leaders in the field, The opportunity to learn from students with backgrounds in health care or technology nurses, pharmacists, physicians, programmers, project managers, analysts, and others, Research opportunities ad an academic lead-in to the PhD in Personal Health Informatics