[Asis-l] UW-Milwaukee announces new PhD program in Medical Informatics

[Charles Kahn]

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) announces a new doctoral program
in medical informatics. The program will be the first Ph.D. program of its
kind in Wisconsin, and one of only two currently available in the Midwest.

Medical informatics combines medical science and information technology.
Students in this new program will train to become future leaders in the use
of information systems to improve health care delivery, research and
education.

The new advanced graduate degree program, offered in collaboration with the
Medical College of Wisconsin, will focus on ways to integrate clinical and
administrative applications of information technology in medicine and health
care. Students will begin in the fall of 2005.

Participating units at UWM are the College of Engineering and Applied
Science, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences, the School
of Information Studies, and the School of Business Administration. UWM
faculty will offer expertise in areas such as software development,
human-computer interaction, medical imaging, sensor networks, artificial
intelligence, electronic medical records and database applications.

Four specialty tracks of the degree program will be offered:

* Knowledge-based Systems (incorporating clinical decision support for
health care practitioners through data mining and knowledge discovery as
well as tutoring systems for practitioners).

* Health Management and Policy (incorporating such administrative functions
as human resource management, the implications of health statistics and
government health policymaking).

* Health Information Systems (incorporating medical records system analysis,
and design to ensure efficiency and security).

* Medical Imaging and Instrumentation (incorporating the design and analysis
of medical imaging systems and electronic sensor instruments as well as
communication mechanisms between such systems).


For more information, e-mail: medinfphd AT uwm.edu.

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