Certificate in Healthcare Analytics

Program Description/Overview

Healthcare organizations increasingly rely on professionals for data-driven decision making to help guide them to strategically organize and analyze medical and healthcare-related information. This certificate provides the knowledge and skills to improve health care through innovative and essential techniques that enable efficient and quality healthcare analytics. Students learn to select, prepare, analyze, interpret, evaluate and present health data related to health system performance and effectiveness. Students will improve problem-solving skills and their ability to lead in making data-driven decisions.

The 9 credits in this graduate certificate are graduate-level credits and students can transfer the certificate courses to Alliant’s Master of Science in Healthcare Analytics (MSHA) degree program.

Program Learning Outcomes/Goals

1. Proficiently perform diagnostic and prescriptive statistical assessments on healthcare data, demonstrating a mastery of informatics methodologies. 
2. Apply advanced predictive and prescriptive data analysis techniques to effectively communicate discerned patterns to stakeholders within the healthcare industry. 
3. Demonstrate the ability to identify, articulate, and utilize key performance and financial indicators in health information analysis and reporting, showcasing a comprehensive understanding of healthcare analytics. 
4. Skillfully integrate ontological classifications, nomenclature, and coding into healthcare systems and analytics processes, ensuring seamless synthesis for improved healthcare administration and decision-making. 

Credit Units

Total Credit Units: 9

Total Core Credit Units: 9

Total Elective Credit Units: N/A

Total Concentration Credit Units: N/A

Curriculum Plan