Healthcare Informatics Graduate Certificate

The Distance Education online inter-professional graduate certificate in Health Informatics is for those from all disciplines with an interest in issues related to health and healthcare informatics and who meet the UTK Graduate School criteria for admission to graduate certificate programs. Course experiences will foster the examination and application of current health systems information management, analytics processing, and data mining techniques.

Program Learning Outcomes: Students enrolled in the healthcare informatics graduate certificate will:

Gain specialized knowledge of health information technology systems and processes;
Analyze and synthesize data related to patient health information to improve outcomes; and
Advance effective use of healthcare information systems to ensure high-quality outcomes.

Home unit: College of Nursing .

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Distance Education

Graduate Certificate Type

Add-On

Stand-Alone (earned graduate degree required)

Admissions Standards/Procedures

Certificate candidates must currently be admitted to a graduate program at UT or hold a graduate degree and be admitted for the certificate through the Office of Graduate Admissions.

Academic Standards

The College of Nursing will observe the following grading scale:

A = 92 – 100	4 quality points
B+ = 88 – 91	3.3 quality points
B = 83 – 87	3 quality points
C+ = 78 – 82	2.3 quality points
C = 75 – 77	2 quality points
D = 67 – 74	1 quality point
F = 66 or below	0 quality points

Credit Hours Required

Minimum 12 graduate credit hours

Required Courses

Non-Course Requirements

To receive the certificate, students must:
1) complete the Graduate Certificate Course Verification Form (located on the Graduate School webpage under the Forms Central tab) and
2) through MyUTK, apply to graduate from the certificate program.

Undergraduates

Graduate Students