Program Outcomes
M.S. Health Information Management

Updated June 16, 2025

1. Professional Competencies

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates achieve professional competencies as currently defined by their respective profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate appropriate content knowledge as required by either entry-level or post-professional practice
  2. Demonstrate clinical, research and/or technical skills necessary for successful performance in the chosen discipline

Program Outcomes:

  1. Analyze data management practices and recommend strategies for effective and efficient management of health information.
  2. Recommend privacy and security strategies for health information.
  3. Manage data within database systems and support system integration for greater use of health data.
  4. Interpret terminologies and classification systems and construct examples of data mapping.
  5. Analyze health information systems, implement new systems, and identify opportunities for system optimization.
  6. Perform data analysis and present data visually to support health care operations.
  7.  Manage components of the revenue cycle and recommend financial management processes.

2. Professionalism

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates exhibit professional behaviors such as cultural sensitivity, integrity, respect, compassion, and altruism, and demonstrate excellence in delivery of service and a commitment to their profession.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Exhibit professional behaviors in all interactions
  2. Exhibit a commitment to their profession through professional membership or participation in professional activities, and by interrelating with other professionals
  3. Identify and evaluate the impact of culture and diversity on health beliefs, practices, and actions
  4. Apply and/or demonstrate leadership principles and strategies in organization or professional settings

Program Outcomes:

  1. Recommend strategies that promote positive organizational change and embrace diversity.
  2. Leverage fundamental leadership skills.

3. Communication

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively communicate in oral, written, and technical formats.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Express concepts in writing using proper grammar and stylistic guidelines
  2. Appropriately document health information according to professional standards
  3. Demonstrate critical thinking by synthesizing, organizing, presenting, and/or disseminating information following established guidelines at a level appropriate for the target audience
  4. Adapt appropriate interactions and/or strategies in order to accommodate diverse audiences

Program Outcomes:

  1. Formulate data-driven decisions to meet strategic goals.
  2. Leverage fundamental leadership skills.

4. Collaboration

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates collaborate with health care team members and other stakeholders to facilitate the attainment of common goals.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Identify roles and responsibilities of team members in the provision of patient/client/community care
  2. Identify opportunities and/or participate with others to set and achieve goals

Program Outcomes:

  1. Recommend strategies that promote cultural diversity.
  2. Assess health care delivery systems across diverse stakeholder perspectives.

5. Ethics and Jurisprudence

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically evaluate, and practice professional, ethical and legal decision-making.

Objectives: Within their scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Maintain and/or adhere to professional ethics and legal requirements
  2. Articulate ethical and legal decision making practices (process by which an ethical/legal decision was made)
  3. Apply ethical and legal principles to Identify breaches of professional ethics or legal requirements

Program Outcomes:

  1. Develop strategies based on ethical standards of practice.
  2. Develop strategies for compliance with external forces.
  3. Develop strategies to achieve data integrity with data governance standards.

6. Education

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates incorporate educational strategies into their roles.

Objectives: Within the scope of their profession, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Identify relevant educational content for a target audience
  2. Plan, implement and/or evaluate an educational program appropriate for a target audiences

Program Outcomes:

  1. Determine workforce needs and workforce training need.
  2. Propose a training program for a health care work force.
  3. Assess consumer engagement activities.

7. Scholarship

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates apply methods of scientific inquiry and disseminate findings.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Propose a problem/topic and appropriate methods to investigate it
  2. Use systematic search techniques to find and critically appraise research and other sources of evidence
  3. Summarize and disseminate findings to appropriate audiences

Program Outcomes:

  1. Leverage health data to support research activities in health care.
  2. Propose a research initiative for organizational effectiveness.

8. Problem-Solving

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates identify, critically analyze, and solve a variety of challenges.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Recognize and respond appropriately to various situations within their discipline regarding clinical, cultural, psychosocial, quality improvement and/or administrative problems
  2. Design and/or implement solutions using best evidence and/or practice guidelines
  3. Assess outcomes

Program Outcomes:

    1. Recommend solutions using health informatics strategies.
    2. Formulate data-driven decisions to meet strategic goals.
    3. Recommend financial management processes.
    4. Develop strategies for detecting and preventing fraud.
    5. Evaluate the impact of policy on health care.

9. Information Management

Schoolwide Outcome:

Graduates effectively access, manage and use scientific, health care and/or patient/client information while respecting the ownership and privacy of sources.

Objectives: SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Identify and access sources of evidence/information to inform the decision making process for scholarship or patient care
  2. Analyze evidence/information for quality, economic, legal, and social implications
  3. Demonstrate proficiency in information privacy regulations, e.g. HIPPA and PHI
  4. Adapt to changing technology in their field

Program Outcomes:

  1. Develop strategies for the management of information.
  2. Create organizational knowledge with database management techniques.
  3. Assess legal processes impacting health information.

10. Safety

Schoolwide Outcome:

SHP graduates create a safe practice environment for themselves and their patients.

Objectives: Within their scope of practice, SHP graduates will be able to:

  1. Recognize medical, behavioral, and public health emergencies
  2. Demonstrate skills to create safe environments and respond to health emergencies

Program Outcomes:

  1. Evaluate performance improvement and risk management activities across the healthcare continuum.
  2. Develop strategies for compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.