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

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 will be required to complete one hundred twenty (120) credit hours to earn the BSHIIM. Students will be 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 will be 1-2 years. Degree completion students must earn a total of 30 hours of credit from USI to satisfy requirements for a baccalaureate degree. Application deadline is due the following dates in the year the student desires admission to the program:

• Spring entry: November 1
• Fall entry: May 1

Admission to the program will be 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 will have to 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)

• ACCT 201 - Accounting Principles I Credits: 3
• CIS 151 - Computer Applications in Business Credits: 3
• ENG 201 - Rhetoric and Composition II: Literacy and the World Credits: 3
• ENG 210 - Technical Writing Credits: 3
• KIN 192 - Concepts in Wellness and Fitness Credits: 1
• HP 115 - Medical Terminology For The Health Professions Credits: 2
• HP 211 - The Healthcare Delivery System Credits: 3
• HP 356 - Ethics and Healthcare in a Pluralistic Society Credits: 3
• HP 498 - Current Concepts in the Health Professions Credits: 3
• IPH 401 - Interprofessional Perspectives on Global Health Credits: 3
• World Languages and Culture (BS) course Credits: 3

Required HIIM Courses (30 credits)

(Grade of C or better required)

• HP 302 - Biostatistics Credits: 3
• HA 431 - Healthcare Quality Credits: 3
• HI 301 - Health Informatics Credits: 3
• HI 302 - Enterprise Systems and Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Credits: 3
• HI 303 - Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Interoperability Credits: 3
• HI 304. - Social Media Monitoring in Health Care Credits: 3
• HI 401 - Project Management for Health Information Technology (HIT) Credits: 3
• HI 402 - Healthcare Data Management and Analytics Credits: 3
• HI 403 - Healthcare Coding Credits: 3
• HI 404 - Revenue Cycle Management Credits: 3