Health Informatics and Information Management
Offering two tracks; entry-level and post-graduate—the UTHSC HIIM program is 100 percent online, allowing working professionals the flexibility to acquire their degree when and how they desire. Students learn skills in:
- Database design and SQL skills with Oracle
- Effective leadership
- Financial knowledge related to healthcare
- Healthcare information systems
- Lean Six Sigma for health care quality improvement
- Legal and ethical issues with patient information
- Medical vocabularies
- R programming for data analysis and visualization
Why choose UTHSC?
- 100% online
- Access to EHR warehouse for data analytics
- Access to faculty
- Asynchronous design and personalized plan of study
- No GRE required
- Small class size (25 or less)
Upcoming Event
USDLA Conference 2025
"Hitting Home Runs in the Digital Age of Distance Learning"
Rebecca Reynolds will be presenting Hitting a Home Run: Bringing Lab and Data Science to Rural Students Using Distance Learning Tools
June 23 – June 26, 2025 | St. Louis, MO
Student Spotlight
Rick Sample - UT Health Science Center HIIM Alumni
Meet University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Health Professions alum Rick. As the Regional Director of Health Information, South Central Region for the National Healthcare Corporation, Rick provides support for health information departments at 12 different long-term healthcare centers. Did we mention that Rick was a busy professional?! One of the things Rick enjoys the most about his career is being able to grow the health information management profession in the field of long-term care.
Find you where a degree from UTHSC can take you! Learn more about our 100% online Master of Health Informatics and Information Management program today!
Accreditation and Mission
Accreditation: The Health Informatics and Information Management accreditor of the University of Tennessee Health Science center is the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). The College’s accreditation for the master’s degree in Health Informatics and Information Management has been reaffirmed through 2030. All inquiries about the program’s accreditation status should be directed by mail to CAHIIM, 200 East Randolph Street, Suite 5100, Chicago, IL, 60601; by phone at 312.235.3255; or by email at info@cahiim.org.
Mission: The mission of the Master's in Health Informatics and Information Management (MHIIM) program is to improve human health through education, research, and service, with an emphasis on the education of competent health informatics and information management professionals to meet the workforce needs of the state of Tennessee.
