The minor in digital health prepares students for professional roles in digital health. Digital health professionals assist health care providers in leveraging tools like mobile apps, software, wearable technologies, and others to improve wellness and patient care; the focus is the application of these tools as well as how data and information yielded from them is of high quality, useful, and accessible. Throughout this 19-credit minor, students learn about health data and information management, health information technology, health care delivery and organizational structures, project management, and information security, among others.
The career preparation offered in this minor relates to the occupational classifications of Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars, and Medical and Health Services Managers, as published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics at the U.S. Department of Labor.
This minor is available to current undergraduate students at the University of Kansas (all campuses). The ideal student for the minor in digital health has a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, and has successfully completed a course in a related area such as computing science, information systems, information technology, etc. Based on advising and previously completed coursework, some students are waived from 1-credit hour in this minor program (see 'minor requirements' tab for details). Acceptance to this minor is subject to review. To request a declaration for this minor in digital health please visit the program website him.kumc.edu.
This is a 19 credit hour program (for some students, 1 credit is waived making it 18 credit hours). All courses are delivered online.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| HEIM 415 | Healthcare Delivery Systems | 3 |
| HEIM 525 | Healthcare Database and Architecture | 3 |
| HEIM 540 | Health Information Systems | 3 |
| HEIM 570 | Introduction to Healthcare Management | 3 |
| HEIM 676 | Healthcare Analytics | 3 |
| HEIM 679 | Information Governance in Healthcare | 3 |
| HEIM 485 | Independent Study in Health Information Management (*Statistics refresher to ensure preparedness for HEIM 676) | 1 |
| Total Hours | 19 |
* Students who have completed a statistics course + analytics course, calculus course, OR linear algebra course are waived from taking HEIM 485
