The history of health information management in this country dates back to at least 1928, when the organization now known as the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) was founded to improve the quality of health records kept by the nation’s hospit…
It’s no secret that health information technology is revolutionizing the world of health care — producing dramatic changes both in the ways that physicians and institutions practice health care and in the ways that patients (now increasingly regarded as “consumers…
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has named the University of San Diego a HIMSS Approved Education Partner — a distinction that credits USD’s Master of Science in Health Care Informatics degree program with meet…
In the age of big data, numbers help tell the story of how technology is transforming health care — for example, $100 billion.
Jonathan Mack, Ph.D., MSN, is a clinical associate professor and the program coordinator for the health informatics master’s degree program at University of San Diego. With more than 35 years of nursing experience, Dr.