Data Analytics: Healthcare Applications Pathway

The healthcare applications pathway integrates study of data analytics with key areas of public health, medical terminology, U.S. healthcare systems, and healthcare IT, including Electronic Medical Records (EMR) applications.

This pathway equips students with the skills needed for data-intensive roles in the healthcare sector (research assistant, health insurance analyst, healthcare quality analyst, and other data-focused positions) or to pursue further study in healthcare administration, public health, and related fields at the baccalaureate level and beyond.

This pathway is available 100% online and has on campus options as well for interested students.

Career Pathways

An associates degree in the healthcare applications pathway would be sufficient for employment in a data intensive applied healthcare administrative job.  Examples of job titles at this level would include:

• Medical records analyst
• Cancer/tumor registrar
• Healthcare information technician
• Healthcare claims researcher
• Research assistant
• Patient care representative
• Clinical data coordinator

With a 4-year degree in health data analytics or related field (such as healthcare administration, public health, or biostatistics) graduates could obtain a variety of mid-level jobs involving management and analytics such as:

• Quality assurance analyst
• Healthcare data analyst
• Clinical data analyst
• Research associate
• Operations analyst (healthcare)
• SAS programmer (medical/pharmaceutical)

With a graduate level degree in healthcare analytics multiple senior and director level opportunities are available. Career opportunities will expand due to the inclusion of AI applications in healthcare. Advanced job titles include:

• Biostatistician
• Healthcare data scientist
• AI research scientist (healthcare)
• AI ethics compliance manager (healthcare)
• Senior research analyst
• Chief data officer
• Data analytics director