Stevens offers new courses for healthcare industry in January

HOBOKEN , N.J. – Expectations have never been higher for knowledgeable leaders to leverage healthcare information technology (HIT) to enhance patient care and improve healthcare delivery outcomes. MDs, nurses, administrators, allied health professionals and other decision-makers who have both healthcare knowledge and a strong foundation in information management are in great demand, even in an economic downturn. Current forecasts are for a 40 percent increase in demand for HIT professionals in US hospitals alone, and job opportunities to support physician practices and home-health units are also growing.

In response to these rising expectations, Stevens Institute of Technology is expanding its graduate course offerings in the area of Healthcare IT Management. Beginning in January, healthcare professionals can take the three-credit-hour course, “ IT Management for the Healthcare Professional,” online or in-person. The in-person class will meet on Tuesday evenings at the Summit Medical Group located at 1 Diamond Hill Road, Berkeley Heights, N.J., which is conveniently located to those who work or live in or near the Summit/ Morris Plains and Morristown areas.

Students who enroll in this section of the course will have in-person classes with the program director, Distinguished Professor Carol V. Brown, on seven Tuesday evenings from 5 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. on these dates: January 13 and 20 ; February 3 and 17 ; March 3, 17 and 31.

On weeks that the class does not meet in person, students will use WebCampus, Stevens’ award-winning distance learning unit, which is the environment also used for the online courses at Stevens. Students access class materials and communicate with the instructor and other students outside of class using a web-based interface that requires only a web browser and internet access.

The IT Management for the Healthcare Professional course is part of a unique four-course graduate certificate program designed for bothhealthcare professionals and IT professionals. The content for this course has been developed over the past year with the help of a regional Advisory Board of healthcare IT management experts that includes:

Joseph A. Carr, CIO at the NJ Hospital Association

S. Vincent Grasso , DO and EVP of Healthcare Global Practice at Lanco Global Systems

Glenn A. Mamary, CIO at Hunterdon Healthcare System

Ellen M. McAndris, Director of Clinical Services at Valley Home Care

Richard G. Mercer, Program Manager at Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey Healthcare

Linda A. Reed, VP and CIO at Atlantic Health

John P. Repko, SVP and CIO at Covance

Steven Reynolds, VP in Government Services at ACS

Karan J. Sorensen, VP and CIO at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D

Leslie Stanaback, Director of Information Services at Summit Medical Group

Richard S. Temple, CIO at Aristacare and former CIO at Saint Clare’s Health System

Vera Tice, President and Founder of Tice Consulting Group

Jim Tosone, Director of HealthCare Informatics at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

For working IT professionals who want to advance their IT careers in the healthcare industry, a three-credit-hour course, “ The Healthcare Value Chain,” is being offered online beginning in January. Students will then be prepared for taking the three other courses in the certificate program alongside healthcare professionals.

All graduate credits in the Healthcare IT Management courses can be applied toward MBA and MS in Management or Information Systems degrees. Stevens also offers flexible payment options and participates with employer-sponsored tuition programs.

To apply or to learn more about these unique and timely graduate-level courses, contact the program director, Carol V. Brown, Ph.D., by phone (201) 216-5581 or by email: hitm@stevens.edu; or visit these websites:

For Healthcare professionals: http://howe.stevens.edu/hith

For IT professionals: http://howe.stevens.edu/hiti

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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