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Health Care Informatics
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Charie Faught, Assistant Professor, HCI Gary Mannix, Dept. Head, HCI Jim Aspevig, Assistant Professor, HCI |
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Health Care Informatics: "The study of the best ways to acquire, implement, and use data and information systems to support health care providers and the delivery of health care."
The Degree: Focused on developing future leaders in health information technology, Montana Tech's degree program in Health Care Informatics (HCI) stands as the nations's first undergraduate HCI degree. With many of its courses offered through distance education, the HCI program is offered as a Bachelor of Science degree. By offering a curriculum balanced between health care, information technology, and communications, graduates are prepared to serve as project managers at the interface of clinical care and information technology. With rapid growth in health information technology, job prospects are exceptional throughout the health care industry.
Montana Tech, a top science and engineering school, is located in Butte, Montana, in Southwestern Montana.
The first students from this program graduated May 2005.