Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) is a community of clinical, technical and research science uniting to advance healthcare. Our goal is to establish the importance of BHI through an Internet presence for the BHI program at SUNY Oswego.
The term “informatics” seems to be largely misunderstood in healthcare. As SUNY Oswego establishes the Master’s degree program for BHI, it is important that we not only define the field, but also generate the excitement of professionals from many different disciplines to get involved in informatics. We need to establish an Internet resource that is inviting and helpful to a broad spectrum of people interested in being involved with healthcare. To succeed, BHI needs the expertise and experience of doctors, nurses, pharmacists or anyone involved in patient care, as well as the disciplines of computer science, research and healthcare management. It is only by the unified product of all of the above listed disciplines that we can forge a better healthcare system for tomorrow.
Our European associates use the term informatics the same way we use the term computer science in the United States (Groth, 2010). While computing is an essential piece of informatics in the US, technology is the tool we use to effectively transform information into useful data that can be applied to healthcare. Using the example provided by Charles Friedman (2009): a computer is not better than the abilities of a human, but the combination of a human effectively utilizing technology is greater than a human working alone. Dennis Groth describes informatics as the intersection between people, information and technology systems where a student can combine passions for computation and the healthcare domain (2010). The strength of BHI is in the combined expertise of many specialties working together, with the assistance of technology, to improve the health of healthcare.
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Founded in 1861, SUNY Oswego is a public comprehensive college located in Central New York on the beautiful shores of Lake Ontario, 45 minutes from Syracuse. Named one of “Top Up-and-Coming Schools” in U.S. News “America’s Best Colleges” in 2010, a Kiplinger’s “Best College Value” for 2015, and a “Best Northeastern College” by Princeton Review every year since the first edition in 2003, Oswego offers its 8000 undergraduate and graduate students preeminent academic programs in the arts and sciences, business, communications, and teacher education. The College’s success is built on providing students outstanding educational experiences with attention to a liberal arts and sciences foundation, practical applications, interdisciplinary approaches, independent scholarly and creative work, and skills for living in multicultural and global communities. The emphasis on faculty-mentored student research and creative projects is evidenced by Quest, a daylong symposium spotlighting original student research; a stipend program for students engaged in research and creative work; and the Global Laboratory, a STEM-based research abroad program at top-ranked universities around the world. SUNY Oswego is an unusually collegial and vibrant community and is in a time of wonderful opportunities with extensive facilities construction and renovation, a forward-looking strategic plan, and expanded outreach to regional, national, and international communities.
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