What are the career opportunities for Biomedical Informaticians?
Biomedical Informatics graduates are in high demand. Alumni of the program enter a broad range of career fields including: research, teaching, health care information technology, biomedical information applications programming, and health care computing industry. What is Biomedical Informatics? According to Merriam Webster, informatics is “the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of recorded knowledge treated both as a pure and as an applied science.” Biomedical Informatics is an interdisciplinary field which combines knowledge of biology, computer science, informatics and information engineering to assist in the management of health and biomedical information.For more information, please see http://www.himss-oregon.org/index.html For whom is this program designed? High achieving high school applicants with an interest in Biology and/or Computer Science who meet the following requirements: • Minimum 3.5 cumulative GPA • 1200 combined SAT/26 composite ACT •
