Elevate your career and prepare to meet the health care system's growing demand for information technology professionals with a master's specialization focused on the essential skills required of IT managers in dynamic, global organizations. By examining information technology management best practices, exploring new ideas, and learning to use data and analytics, you'll build the skills to develop and implement health care business strategies. You'll benefit from hard-earned insight and valuable mentoring of faculty with real-world experience as IT managers, leaders, and consultants. And you'll focus on the specific issues that IT managers have identified as the greatest challenges faced by the industry today, thanks to a curriculum shaped by a panel of business leaders, IT consultants, and other industry experts. Topics include implementing health care policies through information management systems, supporting health care decision management, and facilitating efficient health care delivery through secure patient information. With a specialized path for career changers, this program also offers those transitioning into the field a separate course sequence to build foundational knowledge before encountering advanced information technology concepts. People who choose this specialization are often seeking careers such as health information managers or health information technologists.

Review of this program is pending in ND.