The Health IT Beat

Health informatics is more than just the application of technology to clinical, medical, and public health fields. It is data plus meaning…how you organize and interpret data is what gives the data meaning.” – Dr. Christina Eldredge, MD, MSMI.In this episode, Dr. Eldredge discusses the foundation of health informatics and the core competencies of health informatics at the master’s level. The USF Health Introduction to Health Informatics course instructor will also break down the 10 foundational domains of applied health informatics for master’s level education, as well as health informatics application areas.  You’ll also hear from Dr. Athanasios Tsalatsanis, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine and Director of Informatics and Analytics programs, who will discuss USF Health’s 100% online health informatics/analytics programs.Tsalatsanis will also discuss the benefits of online learning and what prospective students can expect in one of USF Health’s online health informatics and healthcare analytics graduate degree and graduate certificate programs.You can also listen on Spotify, iTunes and Google Play!To find out more about educational opportunities with USF Health, click here. To keep up with trends around health IT, learn more about our students and find out what’s going on at USF, bookmark our resources section!

In case you missed it, Caroline Saavedra tells us what she's looking forward to at HIMSS20. 

Are you heading to Orlando for HIMSS' annual conference? If so, stop by and see us on University Row in kiosk UR20! 

USF Health’s Lightning Session this year will be led by Dr. Christina Eldredge. She will lead a session titled “Foundation of Health Informatics and Competencies” focusing on the development of a competency-driven curriculum. The session will take place at 9:45 a.m. on Thursday, March 12.

Join us at the Millennial Networking Reception! USF Health is sponsoring this year's event and will be attending the reception. It offers great food, lots of beverage choices and a lively opportunity for young professionals and those in the prime of their career to connect with one another.

See you in Orlando!

Project managers are present in nearly any industry you can think of. In healthcare IT, the role is playing a vital part in implementing technology solutions to answer healthcare's most important questions.

Professionals in this area oversee healthcare technology projects throughout their life cycle, while also monitoring and reporting on progress and obstacles throughout the process. It's one of the most prominent and coveted business skills of recent years due to the project manager's ability to manage cost and risk while improving outcomes.  According to the Project Management Institute, the U.S. healthcare sector will see the biggest increase of project oriented careers of any industry with 17% job growth through 2027. 

To take a closer look at the role of project manager, we spoke with Caroline Saavedra, a project manager at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL and a graduate of USF Health Online's Master of Science in Health Informatics program. 

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To find out more about educational opportunities with USF Health, click here. To keep up with trends around health IT, learn more about our students and find out what’s going on at USF, bookmark our resources section!

Large scale data collections are available to academics and medical researchers, but who participates and who has access is often up to a coordinating entity that owns the data. The All of Us research program is an effort from the Precision Medicine Initiative that aims to change this.

With a goal to collect data from more than one million voluntary participants, All of Us will serve as a public data repository for everyone from educators to medical researchers that will provide data from all populations, including healthy people and populations that have typically been overlooked in clinical trials and medical research efforts.

In this episode, we'll take a closer look at All of Us through discussion with one of its data curation leads, Dr. Robert Carroll of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. We also talk to USF Health's Director of Informatics and Analytics programs, Dr. Athanasios Tsalatsanis, following his attendance at a conference for the American Medical Informatics Association, where All of Us was a big topic of discussion.

To find out more about educational opportunities with USF Health, click here. To keep up with trends around health IT, learn more about our students and find out what’s going on at USF, bookmark our resources section!

A brief snippet of episode 4 of The Health IT Beat: The Power of SAS.

How familiar are you with SAS? Also known as Statistical Analytics Systems, SAS has grown into a major player in the analytics space in a variety of industries, including healthcare.

In this episode, we take a closer look at the formation of this industry giant which, according to its most recent annual report, generated more than $3 billion in operating revenue in 2018. We also outline its goals for academia through relationships such as the SAS Approved Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Analytics offered by USF Health, as well as the organization's plan for the future. 

To find out more about educational opportunities with USF Health, click here. To keep up with trends around health IT, learn more about our students and find out what’s going on at USF, visit our resources section!

As healthcare's transition to the cloud has unfolded a number of innovations have come along with it. But the move hasn't always gone as some would have liked.

In this episode of The Health IT Beat, we look at the cloud and it's road to adoption in healthcare. We also chat with some important players in cloud based services and look at how the industry is changing courtesy of the cloud.

To find out more about educational opportunities with USF Health, click here. To keep up with trends around health IT, learn more about our students and find out what’s going on at USF, visit our resources section!

The HIMSS Global Conference and Expo is the premiere conference in the world of health IT, gathering more than 45,000 attendees from around the world to examine everything from the latest tech developments to healthcare policy and philosophy. We take a look at what you can expect from a HIMSS show and look ahead to HIMSS19 in Orlando.

In our first episode, we look at a product created by two University of South Florida professors called HomeSense, a remote patient monitoring platform developed over the last two years using wireless sensors. We take a closer look at the project, developed by the professors and their team of student researchers, from its beginning to progression toward commercially viable product, the story is told through the lens of its creators and the participants who have already adopted it. For more information, visit USF Health Online.