Accreditation
This page lists components of our program which are designed to ensure student success, including the mission of the campus and department, Program Educational Objectives we hope for all students to attain, and Student Outcomes assessed and evaluated within the Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) MS Program as part of a continuous improvement process.
As of 2021, SUNY Oswego’s BHI Program has achieved Candidacy Status with CAHIIM, the Commission on Accreditation of Health Informatics and Information Management.
Mission Statements
SUNY Oswego: SUNY Oswego contributes to the common good by lighting the path to wisdom and empowering every person in the college community to pursue a meaningful life as a productive, responsible member of society.
The mission of the Biomedical & Health Informatics Science Master’s (BHI MS) program is to educate students to effectively analyze, design, integrate, and manage health information systems using information technology for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health. Furthermore the program will strive at constantly forming students to the most innovative and advanced information technology for healthcare, health services, and health research in a fast-paced, connected, and ubiquitous environment. We believe that information science and technology improves and will continue to improve human health, and furthermore in a more global and inclusive manner than at any time in human history.
Program Educational Objectives
The goals of the proposed MS program are to prepare students for successful careers in Biomedical Informatics and health information-related disciplines or to the successful pursuit of research careers or post-graduate studies motivated by the goals to improve human health.
We provide a broad overview of the methods and technologies supporting biomedical information systems, with a:
- focus on intelligent, ubiquitous, and data-intensive technology and devices.
- emphasize theoretical (conceptual knowledge), as well as practical (embodied knowledge), foundations of health information systems.
- emphasize the ability to synthesize and apply concepts in a professional setting.
- prepare students with an in-depth competence in a specialization of the field that builds upon the program core. We offer three specializations: Health Data Science, Intelligent Health Systems, and Professional Biomedical Informatics.
Student Outcomes
At completion of any of the three tracks, students will be qualified and encouraged to take certification exams in their specialty as is expected in biomedical disciplines. These certification exams include in particular the following, depending upon the respective track, the student’s educational background, and the student’s professional experience:
- AMIA Health Informatics Certification (AHIC)
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) from the Healthcare and Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
- Board Certification in Clinical Informatics from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
- Informatics Nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
- Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CAHIMS) from HIMSS
- Other certifications exams in biomedical informatics they may choose to take.
Program Informational Measures
- Number of accepted students for each academic year is shown on Table 1 below.
- Number of enrolled students during the same academic year is shown on Table 1 below.
- Number of conditionally accepted students for each academic year is shown on Table 1 below.
- Number of these students enrolled during the same academic year is shown on Table 1 below.
- The average ratio of enrolled to accepted is 58%.
- The average ratio of enrolled to conditionally accepted is 53%.
- The average time to degree completion for full-time students is 19.5 months, which is less than two years and for part-time students is 28.9 months, which is more than two years.
- The percentage employed post-program completion is provided by the 2022 Student Exit Survey and the latest (and only) figure is 80%, which means that 80% of our graduates are employed before graduating or within three months of graduation. The response rate was 11/18 or 61%. At least three of our graduate students have continued on to undertake PhD studies.
Student Acceptance and Enrollment Information
Table 1. Acceptance and enrollments figures
|
Students |
|
accepted |
enrolled |
cond accepted |
Enrolled |
|
AY (from May 16th 20XX until May 15th 20XX) |
|||||
|
Spring 2017 |
|
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
2017-18 |
|
14 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
|
2018-19 |
|
3 |
3 |
16 |
11 |
|
2019-20 |
|
29 |
20 |
27 |
19 |
|
2020-21 |
|
21 |
11 |
43 |
32 |
|
2021-22 |
|
21 |
8 |
46 |
21 |
|
Fall 2022 |
|
19 |
6 |
67 |
23 |