Healthcare IT

Embark on a career in healthcare information technology.

The recently signed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) includes $19 billion that is clearly identified for healthcare information technology. The key to implementing this plan is providing the industry with enough workers trained in the understanding and use of electronic health records.

The UC San Diego Extension Healthcare IT program will help you compete for new positions being created in this industry. You will examine the impact of Healthcare IT on different healthcare environments and organizations as well as the national implications of effective implementation. It will give you the strong and diverse administrative skills and technical understanding needed in this environment.

Learning Objectives

• Identify informatics needs in different healthcare settings and align them with available solutions
• Evaluate, select and deploy informatics solutions in healthcare sciences and delivery systems
• Acquire, store, and convert/organize data into relevant diagnostic, therapeutic or research information, using quantitative and qualitative tools for decision support and data analysis
• Understand the future of healthcare information technology in order to be an organizational resource in this topic area

Who Should Attend

• Healthcare professionals ready to assume supervisory or specialist roles in Healthcare IT
• Technology professionals needing a basic understanding of complex and unique issues in healthcare
• Professionals interested in a career in Healthcare IT

Further Reading

• Workforce Needed to Take Healthcare High Tech (PDF)