On April 3, the Baltimore Business Journal reported on UMBC Master in Professional Studies in Health Information Technology, launching this fall.

The program will cover a range of technical and health care topics, including health IT law and ethics, data analysis, patient safety and personalized medicine.  With an increase of 53% of job postings for health informatics jobs, health IT is one of the fastest growing industries in the health care sector. The Health IT program will feed into the Baltimore-Washington area’s growing health IT business by training professionals to meet the demand for industry experts.   

Read the full article from the Baltimore Business Journal here: http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2014/04/03/umbc-launches-masters-program-in-health-it.html?page=all