It was a small, intensely excited group filling the 8 th floor room in University Center Tower, for the bestowing of UT-Houston s first master s degrees in Health Informatics on May 4. Rachel Lynn Richesson, and Elizabeth Lee Souther, Ph.D., are the first recipients. But you also are obliged to contribute through basic or applied research and service to the growing body of health informatics knowledge, building an experience to be shared with others and enable change for the better. The ceremony was captured in real time on streaming video and seen over the internet by family, friends and colleagues in 19 locations.
Information is power in today's medical industry.
I see the importance of technology in healthcare and particularly in electronic medical records. We have to get up and get going, to organize the chaos, smarter, faster and more efficiently. This is a school that had died. But it has come back to life with the same administration and has emerged absolutely at the center of the future of health care.