Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Health Informatics & Information Management Major, Degree Completion, B.S.H.I.I.M. Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Health Informatics & Information Management Major, Degree Completion, B.S.H.I.I.M.

College of Nursing and Health Professions >> Health Informatics and Information Management 

Admission Requirements

The online degree completion program allows earning a Bachelor of Science in HIIM through 100 percent online coursework. Students in the degree completion program are required to complete one hundred twenty (120) credit hours to earn the BSHIIM. Students are required to complete thirty (30) Health Informatics and Information Management credit hours of discipline-specific courses, plus complete the required number of credit hours in prerequisite and/or core courses required by the University. The average time for full-time students is 1-2 years. Degree completion students must earn a total of 30 hours of credit from USI to satisfy requirements for a baccalaureate degree.

Admission to the program is based on the following criteria:

  • Applicants must have an associate degree and a post-secondary grade point average from all transcripts of at least 2.75 or above based on a 4.0 scale.
  • Once in the program, students must maintain a minimum level of performance (no lower than a C grade) in each of the required HI courses to progress to the next semester of the program.

Additional Coursework for Degree Completion (30 credits)

(Grade of C or better)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
ACCT 201 - Accounting Principles I
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
CIS 151 - Computer Applications in Business
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
ENG 201 - Rhetoric and Composition II: Literacy and the World

USI Core 39: Foundations-Rhetoric and Composition II


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
ENG 210 - Technical Writing

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
KIN 192 - Concepts in Wellness and Fitness

USI Core 39: Foundations-Physical Activity and Wellness


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1
HP 115 - Medical Terminology for the Health Professions
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 2
HP 211 - The Healthcare Delivery System and Healthcare Policy
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
IPH 356 - Ethics and Healthcare in a Pluralistic Society

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Moral and Ethical Reasoning; Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
HP 498 - Current Concepts in the Health Professions

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
IPH 401 - Interprofessional Perspectives on Global Health

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
  • World Languages and Culture (BS) course Credits: 3
  • Required HIIM Courses (30 credits)

    (Grade of C or better required)

    Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
    HP 302 - Biostatistics

    USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Scientific and Mathematical Reasoning


    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credits: 3
    HI 301 - Health Informatics
    Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credits: 3
    HI 302 - Enterprise Systems and Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
    Term(s) Offered: Fall
    Credits: 3
    HI 303 - Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Interoperability
    Term(s) Offered: Spring
    Credits: 3
    HI 304 - Social Media Monitoring in Health Care
    Term(s) Offered: Fall
    Credits: 3
    HI 401 - Project Management for Health Information Technology (HIT)
    Term(s) Offered: Spring
    Credits: 3
    HI 402 - Healthcare Data Management and Analytics
    Term(s) Offered: Spring
    Credits: 3
    HI 403 - Healthcare Coding
    Term(s) Offered: Spring
    Credits: 3
    HI 404 - Revenue Cycle Management
    Term(s) Offered: Fall
    Credits: 3
    HI 405 - Health Information Privacy and Security
    Term(s) Offered: Fall
    Credits: 3
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