College of Communication and Information
Health Informatics
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Kent State University is proud to offer a collaborative and rewarding online learning environment that is brought to you by our award-winning practitioner faculty, who are dedicated to delivering the best possible learning experience to help you advance your career.
Mara Daiker
Dr. Yi Hong
Marcia Lei Zeng
Mary Louisa L’Hommedieu, Esq
Rebecca Meehan
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Stacy A. Pinkney-Peterson
John Sharp
Vivian M. Singletary
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Kent State’s online Master of Science in Health Informatics program is a candidate for accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). Once accredited, our program will join other universities like Indiana University, Boston University and Drexel University. Of 350 accredited programs for all degree levels, only 18 online HI programs hold this prestigious accreditation. Kent State’s Master of Science in Health Informatics program is aiming to bump the online number up to 19, making us not only one of the most affordable HI programs in Ohio, but also one of the most elite as the only HI master’s program to hold this accreditation in the state.
Security breaches to healthcare systems can result in private medical records—and all the sensitive information they contain—being exposed. How significant is this threat? According to HIPAA Journal, there were 3,705 significant breaches between 2009 and 2020, and nearly every year, that number increases. Over half of these breaches occurred in the last four years alone.1
Innovative digital technologies in the healthcare field are enhancing every aspect of healthcare delivery, providing secure and seamless flows of information between patients and healthcare providers. When a provider collects clinical data on a patient, it is stored in electronic health records (EHRs). EHRs are created, managed and reviewed on an EHR platform designed to share information across a full spectrum of healthcare organizations. Reaching far beyond the original point of EHR data collection, EHR platforms are built to securely share information with every provider involved in a patient’s care, and with the patients themselves.1