Overview

McMaster University Continuing Education has partnered with the National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI) to offer you flexible, online professional development courses in health. Upon completion of each course, you will receive 

• a Certificate of Attendance
• a Certificate of Completion (Data Analytics and AI in Healthcare programs) 
• a Digital Badge

Each credential is approved by NIHI and McMaster University.  

These courses are intended to complement Health Care Technology related educational programs, such as our Health Informatics program, or can be taken independently, depending on your educational and career goals. 

About NIHI

NIHI is a Canada-wide institute bringing together experts in Health Informatics (HI). NIHI has a dominant focus on the problems and issues that are perceived as important by the health system and by private industry as it seeks to deliver the basis for products and services that are needed by the health system. NIHI serves as a co-ordinator and facilitator in fostering and developing initiatives in academia and industry dedicated to HI research and education.

Fall 2021 Offerings

Visit the NIHI website to learn more about each workshop and to register.

• Clinical Fundamentals for Non-Clinicians: The Care of the Health of the Body
• Data Analytics I: Operational Analytics for Quality & Performance Improvement
• Data Analytics II: Moving from Data to Insight with Analytics
  
• ePrivacy in Health Care
• Pragmatic Quality & Regulatory Approaches for Medical Devices

The full McMaster Continuing Education and NIHI catalogue of Courses

Data & AI

• Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Part 1 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Part 2: Data and Its Regulatory and  Governance Implication
• Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Part 3: Advanced Topics in AI
• Data Analytics I: Operational Analytics for Quality & Performance Improvement
• Data Analytics II: Moving from Data to Insight with Analytics
• Data Analytics III: Data Analytics Skills

Clinical Fundamentals for Non-Clinicians

• Clinical Fundamentals for Non-Clinicians: The Care of the Health of the Body
• Clinical Fundamentals for Non-Clinicians: The Care of the Mind and the Nature of Public Health (Coming soon!)

Technology and Security

• Connected Health and the Internet of Things (CH-IoT)
• Cybersecurity Management
• ePrivacy in Health Care
• MedTech Innovation: The Fundamentals (Coming soon!)

Leadership and Finance

• Navigating Healthcare Procurement
• Pragmatic Quality & Regulatory Approaches for Medical Devices
• Return on Investment in Health Care