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Health Informatics Minor

This minor emphasizes knowledge and skills in health and nursing informatics. Courses focus on concepts and issues surrounding technology and information management in today's rapidly changing health care environment. This minor's aim is to augment advanced practice, administrative, and leadership Master's programs.


Three courses are required and a fourth elective course can be taken from a list of informatics and systems courses across the University.


This will meet the education requirement needed to apply for the National Certification exam in Informatics (offered by the ANCC).

Course of Study

Core Courses (3 course units)
NURS551 - Applied Health Informatics
NURS651 - Nursing Informatics
NURS831 - Advanced Topics in Health Informatics

Elective Courses (1 course unit)
DYNM634 - Process Improvement Tools and Strategies
-OR-
DYNM637 - Coaching and Facilitating Teams
-OR-
DYNM660 - Mistakes and Errors, Accidents and Disasters
-OR-
DYNM673 - Stories in Organizations: Tools for Executive Development
-OR-
DYNM675 - Advanced Seminar in Organizational Politics
-OR-
HCMG866 - E-Health: Business Models and Impact
-OR-
OPIM662 - Enabling Technologies
-OR-
OPIM672 - Decision Support Systems
-OR-
OPIM691 - Negotiations


Program Coordinator
Kathryn Bowles, PhD, RN, FAAN
bowles@nursing.upenn.edu

Student Services
Andrea Allmayer, EdM
allmayer@nursing.upenn.edu

Mailing Address:
Penn Nursing
Claire M. Fagin Hall
418 Curie Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217