Oct 11, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

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:

  1. Gain specialized knowledge of health information technology systems and processes;
  2. Analyze and synthesize data related to patient health information to improve outcomes; and
  3. 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


  • Admitted to a UT Knoxville graduate program and in good academic standing OR hold a Master’s degree or higher.
  • Submit an application to be formally admitted to the certificate through the Office of Graduate Admissions.
  • Submit an essay addressing College of Nursing essay prompts.
  • Provide 2 references from previous faculty, supervisors, or health care providers with a Master’s degree or higher.

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

Non-Course Requirements


To receive the certificate, students must:

  1. complete the Graduate Certificate Course Verification Form and
  2. through MyUTK, apply to graduate from the certificate program.