Mary Sumner
Professor, Computer Management & Information Systems and Associate Dean for Executive & Continuing Education
SIUE School of Business
“The BJC Healthcare Informatics classes have bridged the gap between clinical and IT (information technology). The clinicians are eager to learn, enthusiastic and committed to learning IT concepts and skill sets that will enable them to use health care information systems effectively to support the quality of health care. Teaching in this program has been a sheer joy for all SIUE faculty members.”
Frank Lyerla
Assistant Professor, Department of Primary Care & Health Systems Nursing
SIUE School of Nursing
“The need for clinicians trained in healthcare informatics is great. SIUE’s new healthcare informatics program comes at an opportune time to meet the needs of the healthcare industry by preparing healthcare professionals within the field of healthcare informatics. Healthcare informatics has a great impact on all healthcare workers and the patients they care for. Today’s healthcare facilities are incorporating informatics to improve patient safety and outcomes. Additionally informatics can improve communication and facilitate data management in ways that are cost effective for the facility. Students in this program will learn how informatics can be used to accomplish these goals."
Jerry Weinberg
Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
SIUE School of Engineering
“Technology has the incredible potential to transform healthcare to be focused on the person and not the system, resulting in better patient outcomes, discovery of new treatments and less expensive care.
Developments in electronic healthcare records that can be shared anytime and anywhere will allow physicians to work as a team regardless of where they are in the world. Ubiquitous monitoring systems could provide early detection of disorders such as heart disease so treatments can be started before they have debilitating effects. Experimental results can be shared and analyzed among researchers so discoveries can be made that otherwise would be missed. The list can go on and on.
But for any of these things to occur, we need experts who have one foot in clinical practice with a solid understanding of healthcare and one foot in technology, so they can have the creative vision of how technology can be used in the healthcare field. SIUE’s Master of Healthcare Informatics program is designed to bring about the people with the knowledge to help transform health care.”
Walter Siganga
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
SIUE School of Pharmacy
