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A degree from the School of Informatics and Computing can launch your career in many different sectors of the health care industry, including 3D medical prosthetics and app development.

Discover how students and alumni from our different degree programs have applied their skills to improve lives and advance knowledge in the field of health care.

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BioHealth Informatics participants explore evolving health information challenges

BioHealth Informatics graduate students Gopala Krishna Ganta and Vini Khanuja and professor of practice Gary Schwebach spoke about the dark side of biometric data; transforming the evolving field of precision medicine; and telemedicine during the virtual spring regional conference April 14-15, 2021, for the Kentucky and Indiana chapters of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Josette Jones named to national informatics forum

Josette Jones, Ph.D., has been named acting chair of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Academic Forum. She also has served as secretary of the forum the last two years. Jones serves as director of Health Informatics in the School of Informatics and Computing’s BioHealth Informatics Department.

Student Jacob DeHart stands in front of stadium, holding a football helmet

Mother Nature inspired IUPUI students’ design for a safer football helmet

Working with engineering student Joel Najmon, SoIC MAS student Jacob DeHart examined how energy-absorbing, biologically-inspired cellular liners could make football helmets safer. Their research paper was published in the Society of Automotive Engineering International Journal of Transportation Safety.

HI grad student Ashley Leising

Health Informatics student’s simulation piloted by Franciscan Health

By incorporating Electronic Medical Record (EMR) training into simulation training for nurses as she worked on her M.S. in Health Informatics, Ashley Leising improved patient care. Her efforts helped nurses to gain proficiency in working with electronic records, reducing the time nurses spent working with EMR and making them more efficient.

Media Arts and Science alumna Jordan Nelsen with her laptop

What’s in your bag? IUPUI senior creates digital paintings and prosthetic designs

A student at the Herron School of Art and Design, Jordan Nelsen also studies 3D Graphics and Animation at SoIC. She’s drawn upon the anatomical foundation of her artistic talent to help create life-enhancing 3D facial prosthetic designs for dental patients.

IU School of Informatics and Computing student Jacqueline Hill and Vicki Bonds hold Hill's award at the 2016 MLK Dinner.

Award-winning student creating game for kids with diabetes

A research mentorship opportunity paired MAS student Jacqueline Hill with SoIC professor Joseph Defazio. She became an integral part of his research team, examining how to improve “serious” games in health education. The team’s diabetes game, which has a Viking theme, helps adolescents to manage their disease more efficiently.