Health Information Technology- Identifying and evaluating new software applications and/or technologies to meet needs in the healthcare industry.

Students can look at the emerging vertical for health care.

• What are the desirable product features for healthcare industry, specifically for nurses (since they offer nursing degrees)
• Desirable product features?
• Would you expect that we would offer CEUs?
• Cover what aspects of content? What would be the 10 most desirable course topics for nurses?
• Is soft skills certification desirable for nurses?
• How much time would you anticipate spending getting soft skills certification?
• What course materials/components do you anticipate receiving? What features would characterize each component, in a perfect world?
• Video on demand?
• Live lecture
• Work book?
• Tests?
• Time with a coach?
• Graded homework assignments?
• Other?
• For your ideal product, do you feel that it should be provided to you
• by your university while you are still in school?
• by your employer
• through your alumni association
• obtained on a subscription basis per student
• What should the pricing be for certification?
• What should the pricing be for access to STEERus training?

Research would include gathering and assessing primary data from nursing students and recent nursing graduates. Deliverables to STEERus would include:

• data gathered and instruments/methodology they used to gather the data
• their analysis of the data (methodology, results, conclusions and suggestions based on the analysis)

Our CIO has held exec roles at Google and multiple health insurance global companies.