CIPCT Overview

Clinical Informatics and Patient-Centered Technologies (CIPCT)

The Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies (CIPCT) Master of Science focal area was developed with faculty partners from Biomedical and Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Computer Science, and Engineering and offers an interdisciplinary approach to systems, clinical informatics and patient-centered technologies.

CIPCT features enhanced distance learning technologies to support dispersed learners; all required courses are offered fully or partially on the web. CIPCT Master of Science can be completed in 18 months of full-time study (part-time study also available). CIPCT is designed for students who can commute to the Seattle campus 2-3 times per quarter. Most courses are scheduled during weekend and evening hours.

The CIPCT Master of Science curriculum includes core courses in health care systems, informatics, and patient-centered technologies. CIPCT students will take these core informatics courses with graduate students from multiple disciplines and complete an individual thesis. The program offers clinical internships with health care organizations created and tailored to the individual student's interests.

CIPCT prepares graduate students from multiple disciplines to implement and evaluate information technology (IT) and other cutting-edge tools to:

improve quality of patient care
manage chronic illnesses
increase patient safety
enhance communication between patients and providers
increase efficiency of service delivery

Practicing nurses, BSN, healthcare clinicians and administrators in the Puget Sound region and surrounding rural areas in western Washington State that have a strong desire to advance patient care by understanding, developing and improving IT applications and systems should apply. CIPCT is designed for students who have minimum 1-year experience in health care delivery systems; knowledge in informatics is not required, but you will need a basic understanding of computer fundamentals.

For questions specific to this specialty contact:

jpalmer2 at u dot washington dot edu