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Health Informatics
Combining Disciplines
“Health informatics
is a multi-disciplinary discipline that combines knowledge from medical areas,
healthcare administration, and information technology. The program at J Mack
Robinson College of Business is therefore a joint venture between Institute of
Health Administration and Department of Computer Information Systems, leaders in
their respective disciplines. Moreover, the program has close relations to
several medical institutions in the South East.
Strength of CIS
The top-ranked
Department of Computer Information
Systems (CIS) within the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State
University is one of the strongest information systems departments in the world.
There are 20 full-time faculty with doctorates from such schools as Harvard, M.I.T., Cornell, Indiana, Minnesota, and other prominent universities, many of
whom hold endowed chairs or professorships.
The CIS Department at
Georgia State has earned recognition as one of the top programs in the world in
terms of leading-edge research productivity based on a study published in the
Academy of Management Journal that focused on research publications in the
most prestigious journals in the information systems field.
Because of the breadth and excellence of the CIS
Department, it has received considerable recognition over the years including a
$2 million grant from IBM and top rankings both in U.S. News & World Report
and Computerworld. In 2006, both the department’s undergraduate and
graduate programs were ranked top in the Southeast and 10th in the
nation by U.S. News & World Report. The department’s MBA concentration
and major earned the Robinson College of Business recognition as a top 25
“Techno MBA Program” in a Computerworld survey. Computerworld has
ranked the Department as second only to M.I.T. among information systems
graduate programs in the United States. Sourcebook rated the CIS
undergraduate program as one of the top five in the country.
Strength of Health Administration
The
Institute of Health Administration provides
quality graduate programs for education, research, and career development in
healthcare administration and management across the full range of contemporary
healthcare organizational settings. The
Robinson College of Business
is consistently ranked in the top 10 part-time MBA Programs, and the MHA is also
nationally ranked. The programs offered by the institute produce qualified
healthcare management professionals sought after by the healthcare industry.
The record shows that all of the masters graduates of
the Institute find employment in business and healthcare soon after graduation.
Our alumni network with more than 700 members represents successful graduates
contributing to almost every sector of today's fast-changing healthcare
industry. We are committed to the highest quality in graduate education and
research to improve the performance of healthcare systems and, ultimately, to
create healthier communities.
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