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Dec 03, 2024
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2024-2025 SGPP Catalog and Student Handbook
Healthcare Analytics Certificate
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Program Description
Healthcare analytics involves the study of clinical and hospital operations and related organizations. This certificate includes the business operations related to patient billing, insurance, and activities connected to patient care. Privacy, ethics, and governance concerns are examined. In the healthcare analytics certificate, students learn how to develop business intelligence capabilities within a healthcare organization and apply artificial intelligence techniques across a spectrum of patient care and business functions. Students study best-practice information management systems, including health informatics and decision support systems, and learn how to develop highly-accurate models for patient needs and organization objectives. Students also study governance and ethics, including HIPAA.
Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the certificate, students are expected to be able to do the following:
- Apply specialized knowledge in healthcare analytics, while adhering to ethical and legal considerations including HIPAA requirements and organizational governance.
- Incorporate health informatics, information systems, and data analysis frameworks to enhance organizational effectiveness and decision-making processes.
- Communicate highly sensitive data to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Employ best-practice data science techniques to identify errors and ensure accuracy in clinical, insurance, and hospital data.
- Integrate artificial intelligence to achieve the organization’s goals.
Program Structure and Delivery
The Healthcare Analytics Certificate is delivered fully online.
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Faculty
The faculty members for this program have earned doctorate or master’s degrees. Faculty are selected for their combination of educational and professional experience and expertise. Admission Requirements
Applicants may apply for admission to master’s degree programs at any time during the year. Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution and maintained an overall grade point average of 2.75 on a 4.00 scale. Applicants must demonstrate the language proficiency necessary for successful graduate coursework. Applicants may complete an interview with a program administrator as part of the admission process.
Application Process
Applicants must submit the following:
- Completed application form with the nonrefundable application fee (fee not required for alumni or students seeking readmission or veterans and active military personnel), and
- An official transcript(s) issued to Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota from the institution posting the applicant’s completed bachelor degree and other relevant transcripts documenting program prerequisites and potential transfer credits. (An official transcript is one that is sent to the university by the credit-granting institution. Transcripts from countries other than the U.S. must be evaluated on a course by course basis by a university accepted evaluation service, such as World Education Services, Educational Credential Evaluators, Educational Perspectives, or One Earth International Credential Evaluators and be deemed equivalent to accredited U.S. university standards). Evaluations from an approved member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES.org) will also be accepted.
- A reflective essay which includes the following:
- brief description of the applicant’s background, training, and experience; and
- statement indicating the career goals of the applicant and their reasons for seeking admission to the program; and
- description of the areas the applicant considers to be their strengths and areas in which the applicant wishes to develop greater strengths and abilities; and
- personal information the applicant wishes to share.
- Letter(s) of recommendation that verify professional and/or volunteer experience and academic ability; and
- A current résumé listing educational background and work experience.
- Applicants with international transcripts may require an English language proficiency exam (TOEFL, IELTS, PTE or MELAB accepted.)
Please Note: Application materials should be sent to the attention of the Office of Admission on the Minneapolis Campus.
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
Office of Admission
2500 Park Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55404
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