Students majoring in Healthcare Informatics at St. John's learn
from a widely respected faculty of scholar-practitioners with
extensive experience and professional contacts in the healthcare
industry throughout New York City and across the country.
Under the guidance and mentoring of our faculty, students gain
the knowledge, skills and experience to respond to the
pressing national goal of improving the efficiency, quality and
accessibility of our national health care system.
As a metropolitan university committed to Vincentian and Catholic values, St.
John’s has forged strategic partnerships with leading healthcare
providers throughout the New York area. These relationships make it
possible for Healthcare Informatics majors to network
professionally and to be awarded internships giving them invaluable
real-life experience.
St. John's offers outstanding facilities for learning the
technology vital to our contemporary healthcare system. For
example, St. Albert Hall contains recently renovated, ultramodern
science labs. St. John's 40,000-square-foot Dr. Andrew J.
Bartilucci Health Education Resource Center features modern
classrooms and laboratories as well as a library of more than 700
books on topics ranging from accreditation standards to world
health.
Students also gain an academic and professional edge by joining
any of St. John's more than 180 student
clubs and organizations. Clubs that may be of special interest
to Healthcare Informatics majors include these:
- American College of Healthcare Executives
(Student ACHE)
- Watson Pre-Health Society
- Roger Bacon Scientific Honor Society: For
biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, psychology
or environmental studies.
Healthcare Informatics majors also may apply to a variety of
honor societies, including The College of Professional
Studies Honor Society, which recognizes undergraduates for
academic excellence and demonstrable involvement in their churches
and communities.
Of course, students also benefit from outstanding
University-wide facilities and resources for which St. John's is
widely known. For example, new students receive their own wireless
laptop
computers with full access to St. John's award-winning wireless
network.
Facilities include high-tech classrooms, up-to-date computer and
science laboratories and a 1.7 million-volume University Library. Our new D'Angelo
Center is a five-story, 127,000-square-foot University and Student
Center with classrooms, lecture halls, a Starbucks Café.
Students take advantage of St. John’s location in dynamic New
York City. Our faculty and Career Center have strong ties to
employers and other professional and educational resources
throughout the New York area. Students make New York their
classroom through innovative courses like Discover New York.
Students also benefit from St. John's focus on an international
academic experience. The University offers extensive study abroad
courses during the academic year as well as the winter and summer
semesters. Students can live and learn at St. John's Rome,
Italy, campus and Paris,
France, location.