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Health Data Innovators Bootcamp

Launch your career in healthcare technology and data innovation in just 9 weeks.  

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What You Will Learn

Launch Your Future in Healthcare Technology with CNM Ingenuity and HealthInno. Healthcare is one of New Mexico’s largest employers and the heartbeat of our communities. The Health Data Innovators bootcamp prepares learners to meet the rising demand for professionals who can use data, technology, and analytics to solve real healthcare challenges.  

This 9-week intensive program prepares learners for careers in healthcare informatics, population health, and digital health innovation. Unlike traditional health IT programs that focus on coding and compliance, this bootcamp emphasizes hands-on application of health data to address interoperability, population health, digital health equity, and value-based care to solve systemic challenges in care delivery.  

Learners will work directly with real-world data, gain exposure to cutting-edge standards like HL7 V2 and FHIR APIs, and explore the policies and technologies shaping today’s healthcare ecosystem. The program is aligned with CAHIMS certification from HIMSS, giving participants a nationally recognized credentialing pathway.  

Whether you’re an aspiring technologist or a healthcare professional ready to pivot, our Health Data Innovators program is your launchpad.  

Highlights

  • Explore how data flows across healthcare systems and learn the policies shaping digital health (CMS, ONC, TEFCA, Cures Act). 
  • Gain technical experience working with industry standards like HL7 V2 and FHIR APIs, testing queries, decoding messages, and exchanging data between systems. 
  • Build skills in population health analytics, risk stratification, and performance improvement using quality measures such as HEDIS and CMS QPP.  
  • Examine the role of social determinants of health (SDOH) and practice capturing and exchanging social data using FHIR tools. 
  • Navigate privacy, HIPAA, and compliance in digital health and AI environments. 
  • Strengthen your professional toolkit by learning to collaborate across IT, clinical, and administrative teams — and practice evaluating health technology vendors. 

Requirements

Background: Recommended for learners with some experience in data and data technologies (no prior healthcare knowledge required)

Hardware: Laptop computer with reliable internet connection  

Software: Provided (FHIR sandbox, HL7 lab environments, datasets)  

Location Requirement: Must live and/or work in New Mexico  

Part-Time Health Innovators Bootcamp

Schedule

  • 9 weeks to completion 
  • The time commitment outside of class includes homework and group projects totaling at least 5 – 8 hours per week  
  • Mondays & Thursdays: 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (MT) 
  • 100% virtual, synchronous instruction, with options for in-person mentoring 

Dates and Deadlines

January 26 – March 27 , 2026
Application Deadline: January 16 8, 2026

Cost and Tuition Assistance

Total Cost: $1,999

Tuition assistance is available.

Nine out of ten applicants receive 100% funding for their Deep Dive programs. Participants receiving financial assistance via scholarships or other funding sources may not have to pay a deposit or any tuition. Learn more about the Training for Your Future Fund and be sure to explore the Deep Dive tuition assistance and the payment process.

Meet Your Health Data Innovator Instructor

Stefany Goradia

Stefany Goradia has spent over 15 years leading health data and technology initiatives across startups, health systems, health plans, and agencies. She is pursuing a PhD in Health Equity Sciences at the University of New Mexico and co-leads HealthInno, a statewide consortium established to grow and strengthen New Mexico’s health sciences and health technology ecosystem.