Source: Dominican University
A top federal official from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) visited Dominican University March 28 – 29, 2023, to check on the progress of the University’s new Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Program. Lisa Lewis, Deputy National Coordinator and Chief Operating Officer at the ONC, explained that Dominican University was among just ten institutions nationwide to receive a grant aimed at increasing the diversity of students entering the growing PHIT field. “We wanted to see what those universities could do, the students they could reach, the difference they could make, the communities they could touch,” she said. “We also want to reach students that probably have never even thought about a career in public health or technology or informatics. And so the PHIT program was born from that desire.”