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Current News and Events at SISAT
One of the great things about CGU
is that students can take courses in any of its nine schools. This freedom lets students customize their learning experiences to meet their specific interests and needs.
SISAT celebrates this by offering five courses this spring designed for non-majors.
Because almost no organization today—from corporations to schools to hospitals to government agencies to NGOs—can succeed without information systems and technology (IS&T), it is important that a graduate education include relevant IS&T content. These five courses help to provide such content.
All of these courses are accessible to non-technologists. Any CGU student might find them interesting, but they may be particularly relevant to students studying
- Arts Management
- Behavioral and Organizational Science
- Community and Global Health
- Educational Studies
- Management
- Politics and Policy
IS&T can transform organizations of all kinds. This course explores how IS&T supports new strategies and structures. It introduces approaches used in acquiring and employing IS&T. It also addresses critical questions of security, ethics, and privacy. This course should good for anyone who needs to know how organizations can most effectively make use of information, communication, and knowledge technologies.
Digital media includes many of the most interesting uses of IS&T today. This course explores the evolution and development of internet-based systems, such as blogs, wikis, social media sites, and visual communication tools. This course should good for anyone with an interest in media studies, digital marketing and publishing, file sharing or social networking.
Knowledge management refers to the way organizations gather, manage, and use the knowledge they acquire. This course introduces the tools that individuals and organizations can use to locate, migrate, and manage knowledge. This course should good for anyone who is concerned about how technologies can encourage people to learn and share knowledge.
People the world over are using geographic Information Systems (GIS) to understand better situations that have a spatial component. This course introduces GIS, and shows how to apply it in various situations and settings. This course should good for anyone who needs to know how to use mapping and related technologies to solve problems.
The internet, mobile devices and digital media is having a profound effect on how people live their lives and interface with the world at large. This course will examine how this phenomenon is taking shape and the ways in which it can be used to effect positive personal and social changes. This course should good for anyone who has an interest in how technology can be used to help people live healthier, happier lives.
A Unique Healthcare IT Workshop
Presented by
Claremont Graduate University’s School of Information Systems & Technology
and
Loma Linda University
April 8 & 9, 2010
Location: Claremont Graduate University
Albrecht Auditorium
925 North Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Theme: Bridging the Disconnect between Healthcare Providers and Information Technologists
Overview
As healthcare reform takes center stage this year, it is clear that Heathcare IT will play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of healthcare services both nationally and globally. Healthcare Informatics is a rapidly growing field that deals with the structure, acquisition and use of medical information. With the global boom in healthcare and quantum advancements in IT, medical informatics is already becoming an exciting career choice. However it is anticipated that not enough skilled healthcare informaticians will be available to fill the growing need.
While the current environment may be filled with uncertainties, CIOs are continually challenged to make definitive actions that cut spending on IT where possible and align IT around initiatives that run, grow and transform the business. CxOs and external influencers now expect IT to be a key differentiator to effectively enable care and business strategies. This workshop explores the challenges and actions that IT can take in the new uncertain environment. Even if you are an experienced IT manager, this 2-day intense workshop will provide you with in-depth exposure to the milieu of how medicine is practiced, the issues and challenges with electronic medical records, the impact of consumer driven health care using Internet, cell phones and social networking along with the how to reap maximum value for your healthcare IT enterprise architecture.
Intended audience
This workshop is primarily aimed at:
- Directors and C-level managers in healthcare organizations who want to get updated knowledge of this field
- Physicians and nurses who want to broaden their knowledge on the use, challenges and values of electronic medical records
- Executives and administrators who have to make important decisions on the return on investment on their healthcare IT investments
More Information...
Best Paper Selection for IMIA Yearbook
Together with colleagues from the National Library of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gondy Leroy co-authored the paper “Consumer Health Concepts That Do Not Map to the UMLS: Where Do They Fit?” (by Keselman A, Smith CA, Divita G, Kim H, Browne AC, Leroy G, Zeng-Treitler Q, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008, 15(4):496-505), which received a Best Paper Selection and inclusion in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2009 (Section 6: Knowledge Representation and Management).
Steeve Kay Commits an additional $500,000 to support the Kay Center
for E-Health Research
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Philanthropist and health systems visionary Steeve Kay has committed, through the Kay Family Foundation,an additional $500,000 to Claremont Graduate University’s successful Kay Center for E-Health Research. The new funding is effective July 1, 2009 and covers a two-year period, during which time Kay Center researchers are expected to accelerate and broaden their portfolio of health and disability systems research.
“I am delighted with the rapid progress the Kay Center has made. It is becoming a national force in Health IT,” Kay said. “With this commitment, the Kay Center will continue to address major challenges in health care, such as using Health IT to improve the delivery of disability benefits to millions of
Americans each year.”
“Since the Kay Family Foundation’s original gift in 2006, it has become clear that the research being done at the Center is already making enormous contributions to improve a wide range of health care services,” said CGU President Joe Hough. “This additional grant of $500,000 represents a strong endorsement of the work of the Center by Kay Family Foundation. All of us are extremely grateful to Mr. Kay for his generous support of the Center, and we count ourselves very fortunate to be working with a man of such vision and compassion.”
Kay Center highlights include performing collaborative research with national leaders such as Dr. Susan Daniels, convening a series of policy forums in Washington DC to offer Health IT solutions, and producing high-quality doctoral graduates who have gone on to lead successful careers in both academia and government.
“This is exactly the impact-oriented research that our School of Information Systems and Technology strives to accomplish, and we are poised to make an impact right now when Health IT is so high on the national agenda,” said Kay Center Director and Associate Professor Tom Horan.
About the Kay Center for E-Health Research
The Kay Center for E-Health Research (www.kaycenter.cgu.edu) was established in 2006 with a $1 million grant from the Kay Family Foundation. Kay Center research projects are designed to advance scientific understanding and public policy improvements relative to how new electronic health systems can be used to promote industry efficiency and societal welfare.
About Claremont Graduate University
Founded in 1925, Claremont Graduate University is one of the top graduate schools in the United States. Our nine academic schools conduct leading-edge research and award masters and doctoral degrees in 22 disciplines. Because the world’s problems are not simple nor easily defined, diverse faculty and students research and study across the traditional discipline boundaries to create new and practical solutions for the major problems plaguing our world. A Southern California based graduate school devoted entirely to graduate research and study, CGU boasts a low student-to-faculty ratio.
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