Master of Health Information Management – Healthcare Information Security Concentration Online

Distinguish yourself as a healthcare data security specialist and qualify for leadership roles in a high-growth field. This 100% online degree program prepares healthcare and non-healthcare professionals for in-demand opportunities.

Apply by: 10/1/24
Start class: 10/15/24
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Program Overview

Consider the scope of our 100% online MHIM – Healthcare Information Security program

The burgeoning field of healthcare information management (HIM) has created a demand for specialized leaders who can work alongside clinicians to ensure the safety of patient records. Texas State’s nationally recognized Master of Health Information Management – Healthcare Information Security Concentration program will help future-proof your career while enabling you to work in a wide range of settings.

Learn how to capture, share, and manage patient electronic health information and become versed in related software including Python, R, and Tableau. Texas State’s accredited MHIM programs are the only programs in Texas—and among about 20 in the country—that prepare you to sit for the RHIA exam. Benefit from multiple start dates and affordable, pay-as-you-go tuition.

As a student of this MHIM – Healthcare Information Security online program, you will learn how to:

  • Oversee healthcare operations
  • Ensure healthcare quality and safety
  • Implement healthcare policy
  • Protect data from breaches and ensure online privacy
  • Ethically use data and information
As a student of this MHIM – Healthcare Information Security online program, you will learn how to:
  • Oversee healthcare operations
  • Ensure healthcare quality and safety
  • Implement healthcare policy
  • Protect data from breaches and ensure online privacy
  • Ethically use data and information

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Total Tuition $17,964*
Duration As few as 16 months
Credit Hours 36

Accreditation

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The health information management accreditor of Texas State University is the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). The university's accreditation for the Master of Health Information Management (MHIM) degree has been affirmed through October 2028. All inquiries about program accreditation status should be directed by mail to CAHIIM, 200 East Randolph Street, Suite 5100, Chicago, IL, 60601; by phone at 312.235.3255; or by email at [email protected].

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Tuition

Stay on track with affordable, pay-by-the-course tuition

Tuition for the MHIM – Healthcare Information Security online program is affordable and paid by the course, so you can achieve your academic goals while remaining within your budget.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program
MHIM – Healthcare Information Security $499 $1,497 $17,964*

*Tuition and fees are subject to change by legislative or Board of Regents action; changes become effective on the date of enactment. For more information, please visit https://onestop.txst.edu/cost-payments/cost-attendance.html.

Tuition breakdown

Total Tuition $17,964*
Per Credit Hour $499

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Calendar

Our academic calendar gives you a choice of start dates

The Texas State MHIM – Healthcare Information Security is delivered in a convenient online learning format that offers maximum flexibility for working adults like you. Choose the start date that fits your goals.

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TermStart DateApp DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlineTuition DeadlineClass End DateTerm Length
Spring 1 20251/13/2512/30/241/6/251/13/251/13/253/3/258 weeks

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Start Class 10/15/24

Admissions

First things first: what you need to apply to this online MHIM – Healthcare Information Security program

Apply to the online MHIM – Healthcare Information Security program quickly and easily with our streamlined admission process. Review the admission requirements below and take the next step toward your professional goals.

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To be eligible to earn your MHIM – Healthcare Information Security online from Texas State University, you must have the following:

  • Completed online application
  • Nonrefundable application fee of $55
  • Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university
  • Minimum 2.75 GPA in the last 60 hours of undergraduate course work (plus any completed graduate courses)
    • Completed background courses in: statistics, introduction to microcomputer applications, pathophysiology and pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, and medical terminology
    • GRE not required
  • Resume/CV
  • Statement of purpose indicating your ability and interest in completing the degree program
  • Three letters of recommendation from professionals or academics competent to assess your interest in pursuing a career or advancing in the field of study

Approved English Proficiency Exam Scores:

Applicants are required to submit an approved English proficiency exam score that meets the minimum program requirements below unless they have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or the equivalent from a country on our exempt countries list.

  • Official TOEFL iBT scores required with a 78 overall
  • Official PTE scores required with a 52 overall
  • Official IELTS (academic) scores required with a 6.5 overall and minimum individual module scores of 6.0
  • Official Duolingo scores required with a 110 overall
  • Official TOEFL Essentials scores required with an 8.5 overall

You have the opportunity to upload copies of your official transcripts during the application process (not print-outs, grade reports, advising transcripts or transcripts stamped "unofficial"). You can accomplish this by ordering or requesting your official transcripts from your university registrar, opening the documents, and scanning them into one PDF file. Please follow the instructions below when uploading your documents:

  • Redact your social security number every time it appears, but do not make additional alterations
  • Include front pages and back pages as well as the transcript legend
  • Combine multiple pages and/or multiple transcripts into one PDF
  • Arrange all pages in the correct order
  • Remove any encryption/password protections


    • Electronic transcripts can be sent to Texas State University graduate admissions at [email protected].

    Official transcripts can be mailed to:

    Texas State University
    Graduate Admissions
    429 N. Guadalupe St.
    San Marcos, TX 78666-4684

    Admission Requirements

    • Minimum 2.75 GPA
    • No GRE required
    • Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited university

    Courses

    Explore your online MHIM – Healthcare Information Security courses

    To graduate from the MHIM – Healthcare Information Security online degree program, you must complete a total of 36 credit hours, including 27 credit hours of core courses, and nine credit hours of electives.

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    This course provides clinical foundations for graduate students studying Health Information Management. Course content varies based on academic preparation and may include topics such as pathophysiology and pharmacology, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, computing and statistics in a modular format. This course does not earn graduate degree credit and is excluded from the Graduate GPA.

    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides clinical foundations for graduate students studying Health Information Management. Course content varies based on academic preparation and may include topics such as pathophysiology and pharmacology, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, computing and statistics in a modular format. This course does not earn graduate degree credit.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of health informatics, data analytics, data visualization, and decision support. Emphasis will be on quality-driven data-based decision making systems for business intelligence, clinical decision support, and consumer informatics.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides an introduction to research study design, methods, descriptive and inferential statistics need to conduct research studies in the Health Information Management domains. The foundation for compiling, analyzing, and displaying healthcare statistics needed to report and monitor healthcare statistics in the workplace will also be covered.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of health information technologies and information management strategic planning. A major focus will be design and selection of data-driven systems that offer strategic advantages, facilitate compliance and provide a return on investment.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides a detailed assessment of how state laws and federal regulations influence the development and management of policies and technology to protect date security, privacy, and confidentiality of protected health information.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides an in-depth study of the components and use of health records. Interoperability and healthcare informatics standards for collecting, maintaining and transferring healthcare data will be examined. The role of the HIM professional in developing an effective information governance program will be analyzed.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course will focus on healthcare financial and revenue cycle/reimbursement management issues that impact the practice of Health Information Management. Specific topics covered include financial management, coding compliance, case mix index, revenue cycle, and reimbursement methods.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides an in-depth study on quality improvement methodology to include data retrieval, display, outcomes analysis and the aspect of risk management for various sectors of healthcare. Mechanisms for promoting facility-wide participation in achieving optimum patient care as delineated in accreditation and government standards will be analyzed.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    Compliance activities and methods will be covered for HIM topics to include HIPAA, fraud and abuse, coding auditing, severity of illness, data analytics, fraud surveillance, and clinical documentation improvement.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course explores the expanded role of the Health Information Management professional in the healthcare environment. Topics include public policy development, executive decision making, strategic business alliances, change management, enterprise wide strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, training and development, information governance, cultural diversity and ethics.

    The list of electives provided is not exhaustive and is subject to change. New courses may be added as additional programs launch or as student demand increases. Students are advised to work with an academic advisor to select and schedule their elective courses according to their degree plan and availability.

    Students will take HIM 5352 and HIM 5353 plus 1 addtional course from the following:

    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    Students are introduced to the concepts, principles, and applications of healthcare information security including privacy, security, and infrastructure necessary to protect health information. Topics will include confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, fraud, eavesdropping, traffic analysis, intrusion detection and prevention, hacking, viruses, cryptography, and risk management.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    By examining computer systems, network, and security tools designed to discover vulnerabilities, students gain an understanding of how to protect electronic health record systems. In this course, students learn the techniques and methods required to perform computer and network security risk analyses in a healthcare environment. Security best practices and audit requirements for specific environments will be studied. Topics to be covered include internal and external penetration tests, wireless security technology, risk analysis methodology, and security audits.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides an overview and introduction to healthcare informatics. Topics in the course will include the information infrastructure, data needs, implementing healthcare information systems, decision making, privacy and security, consumer informatics and emerging technologies.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course will provide an overview of healthcare terminologies, code sets and classification schemes, and associated standards. Mapping and the relationship of Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) to an administrative classification system such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will be explored. The purpose and differences encountered in mapping a terminology to a classification will be examined.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course introduces advanced concepts of healthcare data analytics. Students will explore, visualize, and analyze healthcare data sets. Topics include data manipulations, data transformations, developing data queries, visualizing data, and exploring data relationships with predictive modeling.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course introduces methods for healthcare database management. The focus is on the physical data modeling for healthcare decision making. Topics include database creation, populating databases, data query optimization, enforcing database integrity, designing database security systems, and exploring data relationships with database reporting.
    Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
    Credit Hours: 3
    This course provides a one term, part-time practicum experience in a healthcare or related organization. Included is an orientation to the organization and completion of a project suitable for implementation at the site.

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