Master of Health Information Management Online

Move beyond clinical practice or choose a new career path. This respected master’s program prepares healthcare and non-healthcare professionals for in-demand leadership roles in a high-growth sector.

Apply by: 12/30/24
Start class: 1/13/25
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Program Overview

Discover what the online master’s degree in health information management can do for you

Learn how to leverage technology to create efficiencies in healthcare delivery and position yourself as a strategic leader in a rapidly growing field. Earn your affordable Master of Health Information Management 100% online and become qualified for senior-level positions in a wide range of on-site and remote healthcare settings.

Develop highly valued skills in areas such as data analytics, informatics, and health information technology and increase your business acumen in finance and compliance. This nationally recognized MHIM prepares you for in-demand roles including director of information and data analytics, information governance officer, and health information manager. Clinical experience is not required. Complete the program online quickly and be prepared to sit for the Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) exam.

As a student in this health information management master’s online program, you will learn how to:

  • Capture, share, and manage patient electronic health information
  • Focus on records management, protection, and security
  • Use healthcare enterprise planning techniques and various models for managing revenue cycles
  • Evaluate and create health information data management systems and policies compliance programs
  • Capture, share, and manage patient electronic health information
  • Focus on records management, protection, and security
  • Use healthcare enterprise planning techniques and various models for managing revenue cycles
  • Evaluate and create health information data management systems and policies compliance programs

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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

Our affordable tuition is easy on your budget

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

Tuition breakdown

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

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The Texas State master’s in health information management program is delivered in a convenient online learning format that offers maximum flexibility for working adults like you.

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 1/13/25

Admissions

What you need for admission to the online health information management master’s program

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


To be eligible to earn your Master of Health Information Management online from Texas State University, you must have the following:

  • Completed online application
  • Nonrefundable application fee of $55 ($90 for international*)
  • 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
      • Students who lack one or more prerequisite courses may be admitted conditionally and assigned additional coursework as needed to satisfy all prerequisite requirements.
    • GRE not required
  • Resume/CV
  • Statement of purpose indicating the student’s ability and interest in completing the degree program
  • Three letters of recommendation from professionals or academics competent to assess the student’s 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
  • Transcripts may be sent electronically to [email protected] or mailed to:

    TXST One Stop
    Texas State University – Graduate Admissions
    601 University Dr.
    San Marcos, TX 78666

    *Texas State defines an international student as anyone who is in a non-immigrant visa status, including H-1B visa holders. If you are not a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, you would be classified as an international student and should complete the international application for admission.

Admission Requirements

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

Courses

Preview your online health information management master’s courses

To graduate with your health information management master’s degree, you must complete 36 credit hours, including 27 credit hours of core courses and nine credit hours of electives.

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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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
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.

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.

Choose 3 courses from the following:

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.
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.

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