Putting students first: online graduate education at FIU Business leverages innovation to raise opportunity.

Putting students first: online graduate education at FIU Business leverages innovation to raise opportunity.

Over two decades before COVID-19 created a tsunami of demand for remote classes, FIU Business began its venture into distance learning. In 1999, a pilot program of 10 classes was developed to meet the needs of a growing audience of working professionals who could not access traditional in-person learning.  The goal: open educational opportunities to […]

Prestigious new recognition for FIU Business’ health informatics and analytics program.

Prestigious new recognition for FIU Business’ health informatics and analytics program.

FIU Business has been designated an Approved Education Partner by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), becoming one of only 37 institutions worldwide to receive the prestigious designation. HIMSS awarded the designation for the college’s Master of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics (MSHIA), a fully-online, 14-month program that prepares  healthcare professionals to use health information […]

FIU Business health informatics program achieves a "first" in accreditation.

FIU Business health informatics program achieves a “first” in accreditation.

Florida International University’s Master of Science in Health Informatics and Analytics (MSHIA) program has earned the prestigious Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM) accreditation, becoming the nation’s only health informatics program housed in a business school to earn the commission’s seal of approval. “CAHIIM is the gold standard for academic […]

FIU at eMerge Americas: An IT challenge for social service change.

FIU at eMerge Americas: An IT challenge for social service change.

Technology may have the potential to create transformational change in the way society helps its most vulnerable citizens. But how do you make it happen? That is the challenge to be laid before this year’s eMerge Americas attendees by Monica Chiarini Tremblay, chair of Florida International University’s (FIU) Information Systems and Business Analytics Department, and […]