News
Montana Tech Healthcare Informatics program bridges health care, technology gap
As a former nurse working at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital who also earned a bachelor’s degree in health care informatics from Montana Tech, Misti Andersen keeps a foot in both worlds — medicine and technology — as she works to bridge the gap between them.
The health care informatics program http://www.mtech.edu/clsps/hci/ graduates are the glue that can hold an information technology project at a hospital together, because they know both the technical and the clinical vocabularies, said Gary Mannix, the head of the Health Care Informatics Department at Montana Tech in Butte.
"Graduates from our program serve as translators between the technical staff and the clinical leadership," he said.
By AMANDA BADOVINAC • Montana Tech News Service and JO DEE BLACK Tribune Business Editor
Full Story: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090706/BUSINESS/907060305/1046/SPECIALSECTION05
MATR Supporters (view all)
Sorry, we couldn't find any posts. Please try a different search.