Health Informatics
With a master's degree in the field of health informatics, you might launch a career capturing, analyzing and communicating data to support patient care, health care administration or medical and public health research.
"We used to have these huge books where you'd have to look for the medical code. Those won't even exist anymore. Everything will truly be digital or electronic."
An MS in Health Informatics from Pitt SHRS is an asset no matter where you are in your career.
A health informatics master's degree can lead you down many different career paths.
No matter what your interests are, you can make health care informatics work for you.
Health care data is a powerfully useful tool that can have a tremendous impact on patient outcomes.
Health informatics specialists play an important behind-the-scenes role in improving patient outcomes through the use of novel informatics tools and techniques.
"My goal with the health informatics program is to take my knowledge and turn it into something that either can move me forward into a new career path or just make me better at what I'm already doing."
There is no typical MSHI student because people come to this discipline via IT, medical management, data analytics and patient care.
Sam Viggiano began his academic career earning a Bachelor of Arts in music with a minor in speech pathology. While in a Post-Baccalaureate program in pre-speech pathology, he began working as a financial administrator for the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Now he’s working towards his online Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS).